On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 08:21:31 -0700, John Ferrell
<johnferrell@EARTHLINK.NET> wrote:

> find that often the charger s unable to detect the peak, especially with
> NiMh. It is desirable to have a step down to trickle after a certain

John, thanks for the advice, but I managed to make my charger works :-)

What I want is to use a switching power suply for powering the charger, but
with a voltage output controlled with the PIC depending on the number of
batteries to charge, i.e., for just 1 battery a 3v output is enough, but
for 4 batteries I would need 9v, I do not want to have a fixed 12v output,
because when the 1 battery charge, I waste 9v.

The other thing is to charge different batteries in serie, disconnecting
them while they get charged.

Cheers,
Diego.

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