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Re: IBM Wearable PC!

s335984@student.uq.edu.au (Guillermo Dubrovsky) writes:
> hurley bryan (bhurle1@umbc.edu) wrote:
> : everyone seems to be worrying about the battery life of one single battery
> : or battery pack of many large batteries. Has anyone built a manual or
> : autoswitching pack to go between many batteries as need arises, to go all
> : day?
> why do you need to switch?  why not wire them up all in parallel? (This is
> not a rhetoric question, if this works or doesn't for some reason, i'd be
> interested n knowing)

Simply because one doesn't want to carry around all of one's batteries all
day, and being able to hot-swap them while you are working is a good thing?

Dave K>