iyeman Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 Messed around last night and made a battery pack for my fon. Used a 6 volt rechargable RC car battery, soldered some leads and a connector to the fon, battery, and charger. Will be bench testing it today to see how long it will run on battery. Cost me a total of $16.10 for materials to make this battery pack. other pics ill link so it doesnt take forever to load this post. http://iyeman.net/jasager/100_2079.JPG http://iyeman.net/jasager/100_2080.JPG http://iyeman.net/jasager/100_2081.JPG http://iyeman.net/jasager/100_2082.JPG http://iyeman.net/jasager/100_2083.JPG http://iyeman.net/jasager/100_2084.JPG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mubix Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 Now that is the hotness right there. Love the charger/battery Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iyeman Posted October 10, 2008 Author Share Posted October 10, 2008 Update. The battery lasted just shy of 2 hours. And that was while being tested with constant wifi traffic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
33W@rl0r) Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 Nice find on an inexpensive rechargeable battery pack. I'm compiling a list of battery solutions for the FON, and I'd like to include this. Does the battery have a capacity rating (specified in mAh? anywhere on it?) Also, can can post or send me the part #'s for any components; I want to include all the deails in my list? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iyeman Posted October 10, 2008 Author Share Posted October 10, 2008 Nice find on an inexpensive rechargeable battery pack. I'm compiling a list of battery solutions for the FON, and I'd like to include this. Does the battery have a capacity rating (specified in mAh? anywhere on it?) Also, can can post or send me the part #'s for any components; I want to include all the deails in my list? Thanks! its a 1000mAh according to label. The packaging is at home and ill post that info tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iyeman Posted October 10, 2008 Author Share Posted October 10, 2008 Just finished creating a USB power adapter. http://iyeman.net/jasager/100_2085.JPG heres the battery pack and charger i used. http://www.radioshack.com/search/index.jsp...23-351&sr=1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
33W@rl0r) Posted October 11, 2008 Share Posted October 11, 2008 Cool, thanks for the info. That's the best price to energy ratio (mAh) that I've seen to so far. It seems like there are going to be quite a few options for us to choose from. I'm still testing - but hope to start putting out some data in a week or so. Cheers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Kitchen Posted October 13, 2008 Share Posted October 13, 2008 Very nice! Can you give us some detail on your cabling? I can't tell that well from the pictures. I'm also curious what it weighs but I guess I'll find out tomorrow when I go to pick one up. We should start a battery page on the Jasager project wiki http://wiki.hak5.org/wiki/Jasager Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iyeman Posted October 14, 2008 Author Share Posted October 14, 2008 Very nice! Can you give us some detail on your cabling? I can't tell that well from the pictures. I'm also curious what it weighs but I guess I'll find out tomorrow when I go to pick one up. We should start a battery page on the Jasager project wiki http://wiki.hak5.org/wiki/Jasager I have a connector soldered onto the circuit board beneath the dc input. Soldered an opposite mating connector to the battery, and used the same type of connector to connect to the usb cable. On the battery charger i used the same connector as on the fon circuit board. the connectors were 1.99 per set at radio shack and i used 2 sets. and the battery itself doesnt weight hardly anything. the whole thing weights less than if i really had cd's in the cd case. Would close ups of the wiring work better than my description? PS be sure to keep the polarity of the wiring correct aka + to + and - to - EDIT: the pic in my original post has the cat5 cable and normal unmodified ac adapter in the case also. its large enough to store everything for on the go versatility aka usb power, battery power, and if all else fails there's ac power. Also ive been trying to figure out a way to instead of route through the fon to just give a plain webpage that says something along the lines of "quit trying to freeload off my wifi" or something to that effect. any ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iyeman Posted October 23, 2008 Author Share Posted October 23, 2008 Very nice! Can you give us some detail on your cabling? I can't tell that well from the pictures. I'm also curious what it weighs but I guess I'll find out tomorrow when I go to pick one up. We should start a battery page on the Jasager project wiki http://wiki.hak5.org/wiki/Jasager cool 4 years of watching and i finally do something worthy of air time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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