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Re: Keeping Batteries Charged

To: "Lin, Gary" <Gary.Lin@wang.com>
Subject: Re: Keeping Batteries Charged
From: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 21:31:09 -0500
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.

-- 
Trevor Boicey
Ottawa, Canada
tboicey@brit.ca
http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/

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