Short term battery backup circuit

[AnalogKid]

A lot became clear when I was drawing the circuit based one your first sketch, this really is the first time I'm working on something like this.

A common interaction with people who are new to this is to convince them that a schematic, no matter how bad it looks or how incomplete it is, is a critical part of just about every *question*, not just the solution. In fact, I have a packaged response for it.

Paraphrasing Rear Admiral Joshua Painter,

"Engineers don't take a dump, son, without a schematic."

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