Keeping car electronics alive while changing battery - homebrew approach?

[notbob]

Sounds like a niche market. CarMemKiller! ;)

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[salty]

Yeah, then pay the dealer to hook up their proprietary programmer to reprogram all your car's options.

[notbob]

Then it doesn't sound much like an option.

You'll have to excuse this ol' geezer. I'm from a era when the car did what I want it to do, not the other way around.

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[Existential Angst]

You cain't even adjust the idle on yer car anymore. goodgawd....

And, fwiu, more and more parts are chip-coded, so fewer and fewer parts can be installed without installing the correct fukn drivers'n'shit....

Bend over, sheeple, spread, and then walk backwards.....

[AZ Nomad]

Rent cars for all your transportation. Always torch them after use.

[Tony]

And I still have my antique portable radio that took 2 45v cells in series, but it was cheaper to use 10 9volt batteries in series. I don't think the 45 volt cells they make now come in alkaline flavor so they don't last very long.

[Tony]

Most all home pc's used vacuum tubes until the last 5 or so years ago when they came out with LCD video monitors. They used one big vacuum tube, also known as a picture tube.

[AZ Nomad]

I'd rather have the drivability and efficiency of EFI. I don't ever want to go back to the days when driving a flyweight deathtrap like a VW bug mean losing speed on hills, having a 0-60 of 35 seconds, and a top fuel economy of

[aemeijers]

Hey, the Beetle was a very nice 1938 car! Of course, 40+ years later when they quit making it in Brazil or Mexico or wherever, not so much. But its genes live on in the rear-engine Porsches, and GM even cloned the VW/Porsche design for a few years as the Corvair. (Still pissed at Nader for killing that- the 3rd generation one could have been fantastic.)

[chaniarts]

4runner and 2 vettes, although the vettes also have an unswitched pair of bare wires in the glove box. they're pretty tiny wires and are only rated for a few watts. used for cell phones or cb radios.

[clare]

MOST 1996 and newer (obd2 compliant) vehicles have at least one unswitched "dc power outlet".

[Mark Lloyd]

The Rayovac I examined had 4 F cells wired together.

BTW, considering the letters, what about A? I know of AA, AAA, and AAAA(used in some 9v batteries) but no A.