On Sunday 27 April 2003 01:24 am, Picdude wrote:
> Now, all I need is to figure out the charge and discharge
> characteristics of a (or this) gel-cell, and build a ckt to monitor
> the remaining power and one to charge the gel-cell.  I haven't
> found a suitable gel-cell charger ckt on the net yet, but still
> looking.  And if I find the discharge specs, I'm sure I can whip up
> a quick PIC-based (of course!) power monitor.  I can't even find a
> website for Yuasa.

Have you tried Googling for
        yuasa datasheet

Among the first three results are some pointers to
        http://www.yuasa-exide.com

Lead-acid cells are easy to charge from variable voltage supplies (or
even current-limited supplies with voltage monitoring).

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