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When we saw [Max.K]’s automatic NiMh battery charger float past in the Hackaday tips line, it brought to mind a charger that might be automatic in the sense that any modern microcontroller based ...

The Charge N Start 1120 is a dual-purpose tool that works as well in your service bay as it does at your parts counter — a ...

The humble battery charger has evolved to a smart, microprocessor-controlled battery charger-maintainer, able to detect weak batteries and—to an extent—“repair” them, alert the operator to dangerous ...

The following automatic battery-charger design is created with a circuit that could qualify as the simplest window comparator ever built around a single transistor (see the figure). It starts charging ...

Electronic Design's Ideas for Design (IFD) articles are short and simple but they cover topics that developers can take advantage of like battery chargers. I cover the Digital and Embedded technology ...

WEST SAYVILLE, NY – The Auto Charge 40/20 is a fully automatic Battery Charger for vehicles with a single battery system. The unit has a total output of 60 Amps, a 40 Amp Battery Charger and 20 Amp ...

This circuit is an alternative to expensive battery chargers, the trick to lower the cost is to buy a cheap battery charger and expand it with an automatic charge breaker circuit such as the one ...

Here is a 12 volt lead acid automatic battery charger that shut off the charging process once the battery attains full charge. This prevents overcharging of the battery so that, the charger can be ...

Batteries are all around us and can be found in everything from our TV remote to our vehicles. To keep them fully charged, we need a variety of chargers. We’ve researched chargers for small-cell and ...

A couple of decades ago, having a dead battery usually meant pulling out jumper cables and hoping your friendly neighbor (if you didn't own a secondary car) would be kind enough to give you a jolt to ...