RE: [RCSE] 12V supply/optima maintenance

2005-07-18 Thread Del Schier, K1UHF
Check out the PWRgate from West Mountain Radio. http://www.westmountainradio.com/RCintro.htm It uses 80 amp Schottky barrier diodes for isolation and is available with a fast charge circuit optimized for sealed lead acid batteries. Del Schier http://www.csflyers.org -Original

RE: [RCSE] 12V supply/optima maintenance

2005-07-15 Thread Winch
I may have missed your main point but I too often have requirements for lots of 12V. At home, I used to use a ordinary car battery on a trickle charger but often found that I ran out of power when doing parallel (several chargers) cycling of large nicad packs. My solution was to use a moderately