Originally Posted by
Bishop
Generally, a club rechargeable has multiple advantages in my mind, one being there is hope they help stop people walking away with them if they are no use to anyone but a club, also people here have nitro cars with sealed receiver boxes and/or receivers in balloons etc, making use of a plug in harder.
But more than anything, just ease of use for a club, and hopefully to retain something people won't want to keep, because I see all sort of issues with leading out personals, and basically never getting them back again, with them being real easy to sell.
That makes perfect sense. I've left the track with one of them still in my car, many years ago when we still used them.
I envision using an existing personal transponder, adding a single NiCad cell with a boost switching power supply, and putting it all in a single enclosure, with a charging connector exposed. (Using a single NiCad cell means that there will be no concern about cell balancing or discharging the cell all the way.)
Do you have the ability to put all of the components into a sealed box? All we need to create is the boost supply, and this is easy.