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From: phil@pepsi.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Battery charging again
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Date: 9 Jan 90 01:31:59 GMT
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In article <5910001@hpihoah.HP.COM> jwatts@hpihoah.HP.COM (Jon Watts) writes:
|I have several configurations: 10V 3.8 Ahr, 10V 10 Ahr, 6V 2.5 Ahr.  I also
|need to know how to tell when to stop charging and can the be floated on the
|charger (continuously connected).

I never found this out. I did get some plots of V vs charge from Yusa.

|Another related question, for ni-cad and sealed lead acid batteries is it
|better to store them fully charged/fully dis-charged/doesn't matter?

NEVER store a l-a bat discharged. I wouldn't store a ni-cad that way
either, but definitely NEVER a l-a.


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