Trevor,
Are these chargers current or voltage sources? I wonder about all the
talk of over-charging and don't know beans about battery chemistry.
Regards,
Jim Wallace
Ottawa, Canada
jwallace@canada.hp.com
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Subject: Re: Keeping Batteries Charged
Author: Non-HP-tboicey (tboicey@brit.ca) at HP-USA,mimegw5
Date: 03/12/97 8:31 PM
Lin, Gary wrote:
>
> I had a thought along those lines, this is just a hypothesis.
>
> How about getting an automatic shutoff trickle charger and hooking up
> all the 12v ones in parallel? Pair up the 6v ones in series like Keith
> said and then parallel that set with the rest. Just make sure you don't
> exceed the capacity of the charger on initial startup.
You probably want battery isolaters (big diodes) between
each battery.
Otherwise you get problems if one battery has a higher voltage
than another and starts back-charging, especially when the automatic
shutoff trickle charger shuts off.
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Trevor Boicey
Ottawa, Canada
tboicey@brit.ca
http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
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