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The difference about using a memory cap in a WPC machine is that in addition to preserving the memory it also has to support the real time clock, so the power draw is greater. I've heard of people getting 2+ weeks with a memory cap and WPC which is probably ok for a collector who plays their game sporadically.
Unless your game has a midnight madness mode or you are so fastidious that your machine has to have the correct date and time, you're better off putting in a NVRAM solution IMHO.
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Quoted from thedefog:For $3.91 per cap on mouser, you can't really go wrong. Viper, have you by any chance experimented with higher value super capacitors than 1.5F? I see 5F caps there for around $10, I'd imagine they'd last more than twice as long, with the discharge rate being the same?
No I haven't. There are apparently issues with initial current inrush on an empty supercapacitor and the circuit on the CPU board may not support this. Unless someone like Ed @ GPE or someone else who has experience with supercapacitors can chime in here to the contrary, I personally wouldn't try it.
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Quoted from stangbat:Ed has chimed in on it here:
http://forums.arcade-museum.com/showthread.php?p=2599616
Makes sense. Thanks for posting!
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