Re: Lithium battery charger with balancer proof of concept

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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.
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> 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.
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>  > Does this seem workable in theory?
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