Re: battery chargers, again

Sep 28, 2009 4 Replies


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>>John, you are skilled enough to build a charger! Just do it...
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>I'm skilled enough to buy a B&K or whatever bench supply from Digikey,
>too.
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>John

But where's the fun in that? What I ended up doing was finding a bunch of old linear supplies in my junk box. Each was adjustable from 12 to


15 volts, so I set the regulators to 13.8 volts, and they work well as trickle chargers. (IIRC they are rated at 2 or 3 amps).

I have plenty of other stuff to design. I did hack a charger from an old DSL wall wart and a sabre saw; isn't that enough?

John

Hell no; it MUST use duct tape or it does not count.

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John never, ever said he didn't use duct tape... I suspect that he probably did, but if he is a professional he used Gorilla tape instead.

I'm more of a hot-melt sorta guy.

John

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