RE: (ET) battery charger

[Bruce E Conner <BConnor nefn com>]

Speaking of the capacitor, naturally, it's an electrolytic.  I looked long
and hard at the old one on my charger, but couldn't determine which side 
was
the + (there was a littel smudge of something red on the little rubber cup
around one of the connections, but who knows?) .  Looking at the schematic,
it looks like it's on an AC portion of the circuit anyway, so does the
polarity matter?  

Bruce Conner
IFS Quality Assurance  Ext 7038

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wombat [SMTP:wombat realns com]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 1999 4:30 PM
> To:   electrak list
> Subject:      (ET) battery charger
> 
> Good advise on the diodes, infinity one way, short the other.  From the
> manual, be careful if checking the charger voltages when operating
> "unloaded", the winding feeding the capacitor can be nasty.  If you just
> put a couple of house incandescent bulbs across the battery terminals 
> it'l
> stabilize the output, don't forget, you will be measuring a series of
> waveforms all on the plus side so most meters won't read correctly .  
>  
> Wombat