Battery Charger Revamp Rebuilding an old battery charger, with improvements



Last Modified: 21 Nov 2018


Condensed from a forum topic.


Sat Jan 10, 2015 3:56 pm

I

  have been fiddling with this again ~ it's a very ancient battery charger inherited from my dad...


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Newly added level of extra sophistication now comprises of a digital ammeter, and, a big Zener as a shunt regulator.

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With just battery connected...

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... then plugged into the mains...

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Plus some general tidying up and improvements, such as, a 'P' clip for the mains lead to stop it twizzling round and round and round.

Only original bits left are the case and the transformer!







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