* An ongoing debate between Tom Walker and Ben Ritchey rages on ...

 TW: > drains a 9V -> transistor battery way too fast .

 TW: > The 9 volt cell is really only practical for a Reciever only. If one
 TW: > is talking about Transmitters or Actuators forget it. The operating
 TW: > time will as you have found out will be quite short.

 The requirement was to get 5V+ for circuitry to work properly, though some
CMOS works down to around 3V with many devices I believe.

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