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#21784 - RE: MCU based battery charger - Ijaz |
"It is easy to sense the fully charged condition in CC type charging. Just monitor the current going to the battery"
NO! - A CC (Constant Current) charger will, by definition, (attempt to) maintain a constant current through the battery irrespective of its state of charge! If you just keep pushing more & more current into a fully-charged battery, you risk it exploding! (but see the 10% rule below) "A 100A battery is fully charged when it is drawing less than 1A current" NO. That depends entirely on your charging circuit - this cannot be taken as a blanket statement! BTW: that's 100Ah (Amp-Hours) - let's not confuse the guy with sloppy notation! "10% of the rated capacity is taken as standard charge rate." This is often quoted as a safe rate, at which overcharging won't cause problems (explosions, etc) "But modern batteries offer fast charging, where you can go upto 50% of the rated capacity." Many you can charge even faster than that - but then it becomes absolutely imperative that you have proper endpoint detection and safety interlocks. Typically, a fast-charger will have an ambient temperature sensor (as the battery characteristics are temperature-dependent - it is unsafe to fast-charge a cold battery), a dV/dt end-of-charge detector, a battery over-temperature cut-out, and a maximum charging time cut-out. |
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| RE: MCU based battery charger - Ijaz | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
| RE: MCU based battery charger -Andy | 01/01/70 00:00 | |
RE: MCU based battery charger -Andy | 01/01/70 00:00 |



