so, as you maybe can tell (if you can’t thats totally ok), this is a fairly sad camera battery. zero volts. nothing.
initially we were thinking that we’d get a new battery for the camera, but then decided we’d shove five volts into it (a 3.7 volt battery) just for the lols—it happens that five volts is the voltage you get from a USB plug!
above is the setup. the white wire is a chopped up USB charging cable on which the original connector broke. and, we are getting a sweet 5.22 volts. now to see what happens!
that’s a decent voltage drop, but its not horrifying. taking the leads off and measuring the battery voltage now reveals that…
the battery actually has a healthy voltage??? okay. fine. but surely with this battery being of the age of consent, the voltage will drop way too much under load to–
oh. wowee. this idea was supposed to be a joke but it actually did something useful instead of blowing up the battery. to be clear the battery life is dreadful but it works!
y’know what, we are going somewhere tomorrow. we’ll try and get some photos with this thing! maybe with a clean lens that actually focuses properly too :3
sweet dreams dear readers xoxo