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In article <XTogsB1w165w@inqmind.bison.mb.ca> norm@inqmind.bison.mb.ca (Norman P. Paterson) writes:
>I would like to take a regular 9volt battery and boost its power as much 
>as possible.  How can I do this? 

	If you want to do it for the full discharge lifetime of the
battery, there's only one suggestion: match your load impedance to
the output impedance of the battery.  This gives maximum output
power from the battery (or any other power source).  By 'match',
I mean apply a load impedance which is the complex conjugate
of the source impedance.  

	If you just want a very high power burst, you can use a capacitor.
If you want a high voltage high power burst, purchase an inexpensive
photographic strobe light: the innards of this gizmo boost the
battery voltage up to circa 300V, and can deliver the full stored 
power in a millisecond (you DON'T want this across your fingers,
by the way).  Typical stored energy in a small unit would be 10 J
(that's ten joules).  Peak power is circa 12 horsepower (but remember,
that's only for a SMALL fraction of a second).

	John Whitmore