How to safely charge Lithium Ion & Lithium Polymer batteries with a bench power supply. Forum HERE Podcast: Download
Read More »EEVblog #865 – How To Increase Alkaline Battery Capacity
Dave shows you an interesting ionic resistance phenomenon that lets you increase the battery capacity in typical Alkaline AA and AAA cells. Forum HERE Ionic resistance video Batteriser Monkey Busted Video Podcast: Download
Read More »EEVblog #812 – Varta 15min NiMH Charger Part 2
Dave further investigates the Varta 15 minute NiMH batter charger. Mixed signal analysis with the new Keysight 3000T oscilloscope, and current tracing with the TTI iProber 520 positional current probe And some more reverse engineering. Forum HERE Podcast: Download
Read More »EEVblog #811 – How The Varta 15 Minute Battery Charger Works
A look inside the Varta 15 minute 8A NiMH fast charger. A teardown and look at how it works and the circuit topology. Can Sanyo Eneloops be charged this fast too? Forum HERE Datasheets: Varta-AA-2100mah-56706-datasheet.pdf DTM4410.pdf tl494.pdf Podcast: Download
Read More »EEVblog #789 – Batteriser Monkey BUSTED!
Dave shows why power supplies are no different to batteries when determining cutoff voltage, busting the claim of Batteriser using their own monkey experiment. It shows the incorrect method used by Batteriser to come to their false conclusion. Discharge testing of alkaline batteries is performed, and correct probing of the …
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