Looking for BIG capacitors.

[Peter P.]

I am 98% sure that you can use a much lower capacitance cap for what you will be
doing, and that a NiCd backup battery will go a long way too. The easiest way
would be to probably buy a 3 cell AA battery holder and 3 AA NiCd (not NiMh)
cells of the cheapest kind, and trickle charge them from the serial port through
a diode. A 1000uF cap and 5.1V zener in parallel with this should complete the
power supply.

feel free to ask more, some people have been down similar roads in the past,
Peter P.

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