Good Morning All, The final prototype boards arrived at home on Tuesday and two were posted out to me here at work to build ready for testing when I get home...
Hi All Check out The electronic goldmine item # G8498 You get 5 battery packs containing 4 high quality quick charge nicad AA's with solder tabs and thermistor...
... Nice! Thanks for the pointer. I just ordered a bunch of stuff from them including the items you mentioned. One item you never have enough of is .01 uF...
Hi Richard H. ... Richard L. had mentioned that you were interested in something like that, but then he got busy. What exactly are you looking for it to do? ...
Hi Rick, Basically, I have a camper (RV in North American) which has two batteries, one for starting and one for living; these are only linked whilst the...
Good Morning All, It's been a while since I last posted. The MkII PCB's eventually turned up having gone AWOL in the British postal system for a week!! Due to...
Good Evening All, To any patiently waiting PIC kit customers the MkIII PCB's were despatched from the manufacturer on Friday and as soon as they arrive one...
Good Afternoon All, After some delays the PIC PCB is now finalised with the MkIII version being successfully built up, the new firmware uploaded and the device...
Good Evening All, I spotted that the -ive logo on the MkIII PCB was missing, I had it on the wrong layer in EagleCad so the 'final' PCB order went out last ...
Good Morning All, The 12V thermistor overheat and reverse polarity PIC PCB's, kits and built up units are now available with the PCB now having been finalised....
Good Evening All, Doesn't anybody else have any posts they wish to make?? Just to let people here know what is going on as I'm unable to readily update the web...
Good Morning, Just a quick note here from the testing 'den' aka Courtiestown kitchen. The new PCB's have arrived and we're currently soak testing a couple of...
I would be interested in one of the prototype unit when it is available..let me know..Aloha Chris ... -- ___________________________________________________ ...
Richard, a thought about the reverse polarity problem: Instead of a inline fuse on the leads, why not use a bridge made up of a pair of zener diodes, that...
Hi, I've been considering building a unit from scratch myself, and had the final push when the new motorcycle battery I bought last year died last week. When I...
Hi Rod, I've been fiddling with these desulfators for a while and have built a number from scratch with a similar purpose to yours - motorcycle batteries!...
1st Update: reviving a Sprint YTX12L-BS. A bit of history .... This battery was bought new last spring and was fitted in my motorcycle. With the inclement...
2nd update: The battery has now had 24 Hours on the PIC pulser and I'm in the middle of a periodic pulse discharge (0.5A for 8 seconds / 35A for 1 seconds). ...
Rod, As nobody else seems to be responding I have a couple of points here. The drop in performance at this stage has been reported by one other customer albeit...
Thanks Richard, Comments below ... other ... a ... OK - It's still pulsing anyway and I'll do some checks later ... Now *that* I did not know! I might even...
OK, Following Richards comments about the EDTA on electrolyte I wandered round to our local motor parts shop - and found they sold 38% Sulphuric for £2.50 per...
Watch your SG after rinsing with distilled water. It is hard to get the all the distilled water out; Some of it just can't be shaken out, and part of it gets...
Good Morning All, Cleve34's problem has been sorted. We sent him an EM with the necessary attachments when we despatched his order but for some reason this ...
Richard, I'm still testing the Nfet. My scopes on the blink, since I need a new lead....Therefore I can't see the signal. One thing that I noticed is that the...
Don, I'll answer this one aspect of your last post. Quite simply the device you're testing (as I am) uses less parts and lends itself more readily to operating...
OK... I need to buy another scope lead and look the Nfet signal over. You can hear it singing across the room clearly. I guess I would need a true RMS meter...