[PLUG-TALK] battery chargers

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Fri Nov 30 21:17:05 UTC 2007


On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, Russell Senior wrote:

>
> I have a battery charger from Power-Sonic (PSC-122000A)[1] which 
> I've used for charging 12V 12 A-hr sealed lead-acid batteries. 
> However, now I've got a couple new smaller capacity batteries: a 3.4 
> A-hr[2] and a 5 A-hr[3], which (according to the spec sheet) should 
> be charge at a maximum current of 1A and 1.25A respectively.  My 
> PSC-122000A charger puts out 2A.  Is there any practical, effective 
> and safe way to prevent the charger from pushing too much current 
> through the smaller batteries?

Mere curiosity: Why post this to plug-talk rather than (the presumably 
larger) plug? OK, it's not about Linux per se, but it has enough of a 
engineering or geeky feel to it that imo it'd pass plug muster.

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Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/



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