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Re: Lithium battery charger with balancer proof of concept

by Lee Mulvogue :: Rate this Message:

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        Or you could just buy a Turnigy 3S balancer and charger for $4.50,
does pretty-much exactly this.  Back-order at the moment though.

        http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__7637__Turnigy_balancer_Charger_2S_3S.html
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        > I suggested a module made up of a lithium charger IC, a switching
 > mechanism that could isolate those batteries in the chain
(envisaging no
 > more than 3) once they've charged and some form of electronic load
 > (probably a FET). It has been proposed that each battery could have
its
 > own switch controller and thinking about this a small Pic or Atmel
chip
 > could be used to provide the intelligent switching per battery with
the
 > charger/battery gauge chip providing the correct charging
algorithm, the
 > controller chip would either switch it out of the pack chain or
 > alternatively switch in the active load to maintain that particular
battery
 > charge state.
 >
 > Does this seem workable in theory?
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