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From: gmg@hcx.uucp (Greg M. Garner)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Gel Cells
Summary: May have the date..
Keywords: gel cells, charger, RE
Message-ID: <787@cseg.uucp>
Date: 1 Oct 88 21:13:25 GMT
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In article <1955@lll-lcc.llnl.gov>, rzh@lll-lcc.llnl.gov (Roger Hanscom) writes:

> # We were very satisfied with them.  Radio Electronics published a nice
> # article on how to build a gel-cel charger using a lm317 and some other 
> # stuff, and we built several of these and sold them to our customers!  Try it
> 
> Anybody got the publication date for the R-E article mentioned here????
> 
>                                  Roger

Well, I looked for the article in my archives :-), and I found it! 
The date is July 1986, Radio Electronics, page 67. On a related note, the
address of the batteries I posted earlier is _NOT_ the place I got the 
batteries (although they do have them), but I remembered that I got 
the batteries from mouser electronics. Their phone # is 1-817-483-4422 (in 
texas) or 1-619-449-2222 (in california). The relevant part number is:

12 volt battery 1.8 amp/hour   547-PS-1219   $19.90 (one price).

They have 14 different ratings of amp/hours, for 6 and 12 volt batteries.
There is a chance that my old place of employment would sell some of these
chargers, or the boards to build them on. The company name is :

   Weigh Systems Inc.
   501-751-7225

And the person to talk to is probably: Brian Espenschied.

Good luck!

    Greg Garner
    gmg@hcx.uucp
    501-442-4847