Get 5-volts from an exhausted alkaline cell
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Every day we throw away usable power alkaline cells. Since the device in which we use them can not work with partially discharged cells, the circuit that I present can raise the voltage of one exhausted cell to 5V to use it in any other application, for example to turn on a led, feed a microcontroller or feed remote sensors that do not demand much energy.
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