Audioguru,
Thank you for the quick reply. Resistance: I suspected as much, thanks for the confirmation. I would have hated to solder it up on a pcb and find out something else is the cause.
NiMH: agreed. I also believe the internal resistance of that type of cell would preclude anything...
First thank you for any assistance with this as I am a complete newbie to electrical engineering with some physics background.
I have built a few of Adafruit's Mintyboosts for friends (http://www.ladyada.net/make/mintyboost/) and have been mostly satisfied with their performance. The only...