Hello, I've been pondering this for a while. In the last according to pete from sparkfun, he mentioned something called backwards protection in regards to the battery. Supposedly it would protect the circuit if you put the battery in backwards (Vcc into ground, ground into Vcc). Exactly how would t…

Backwards battery protection?

Constantin August 24, 2012, 1:42pm 2

Diode would be my guess, Shottky type to minimize voltage drop.

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