Hello everyone, yesterday my garage almost burned out, I put the battery on charge and thought that everything would be okay, but it overheated and flashed .. Later I read article and realized that I am an idiot, I want to ask you if there are devices on the market now that turn off themselves when the battery is charged, or batteries with fuses?
Smart battery charger
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Fuses are a completely separate topic.
Power supplies and DC-DC converters just keep putting out current until they are turned off, either manually or by an HVC circuit.
Ancient garage-style chargers used to be the same, basically obsolete.
Proper chargers these days all have a stop-charge algorithm for safety and to prevent overcharging the battery. Dropping to a lower Float stage voltage after the bank is full is as "smart" as is needed, aka 3-stage charger.
More complexity and automation than that is rarely a good sign.
Really good ones, the user can custom adjust, not just the Absorb / CV voltage, but also how long Absorb is held.
Looking at a few hundred bucks, but we'd need to know more detail to make specific reco's.
Type of battery, specific make & model and Ah capacity? (ideally a link)
Different types you may want in future when replacing the current ones?
Used for what purpose?
How fast do you need to charge?
What specs on the mains supply circuit?
Power supplies and DC-DC converters just keep putting out current until they are turned off, either manually or by an HVC circuit.
Ancient garage-style chargers used to be the same, basically obsolete.
Proper chargers these days all have a stop-charge algorithm for safety and to prevent overcharging the battery. Dropping to a lower Float stage voltage after the bank is full is as "smart" as is needed, aka 3-stage charger.
More complexity and automation than that is rarely a good sign.
Really good ones, the user can custom adjust, not just the Absorb / CV voltage, but also how long Absorb is held.
Looking at a few hundred bucks, but we'd need to know more detail to make specific reco's.
Type of battery, specific make & model and Ah capacity? (ideally a link)
Different types you may want in future when replacing the current ones?
Used for what purpose?
How fast do you need to charge?
What specs on the mains supply circuit?
Is this another of those spam posters? The article is trash, not sure one would learn anything from it.
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