On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Josh Green wrote: > Thanks for the discussion! I appreciate it! > > The application I'm looking at would require that the charging supply is > simply charging the battery as best it can do, whilst the batteries are > under load by PWM DC Motors every now and again. So the batteries are > essentially acting as a buffer/capacitor to supply the short bursts of power > to the motors. So why not use capacitors? You can readily get those huge capacitors they sell to the high-power car audio crowd - 1F caps the size of an infant. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist