>
>So, what are you guys using now?
>never saw the question been raised,
>or you all have never being bothered
>by charging battery?

Well, I did it, but I used an AVR. :)

Tiny-26 running from internal 8 MHz R/C clock, PLL'd up to 64 MHz 
internally to run the buck switch regulator PWM at 500kHz with good 
resolution.

After that, there's a bunch of things you need to know about NIMH 
cells, you can look at the Panasonic and Sanyo data sheets, and the 
Cadex docs, plus the Galaxy power docs, and get there.


There are temperature limits, lockouts on certain trip conditions... 
A lot to consider.


BTW: The max chips all provide rather a lot of trickle charge for 
NIMH cells. Some NIMH can't tolerate ANY trickle, some are almost 
like Nicads.   

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