Re: (ET) How NOT to check your batteries... Battery Charge / Monitor / maintainer

[Christopher Zach <cz alembic crystel com>]

JBR wrote:
> We need to find an 'inspired' Microcontroller Engineer (meaning EE & CS 
> skills) who wants to design PIC (or similar) microcontroller into a charge 
> controller with real time clock, alarm (piezo buzzer, etc), voltage readout,  
> and maybe temperature and current monitoring.  [adding more features adds 
> some cost in hardware, and tedious software testing]

Or we could put a zener diode (try 6.2 volt, 5 watt for starters) on the 
table, attach it to a PR2 bulb with solder, and attach one end to b+ and 
one to B- on each battery.


B-   Diode  Bulb   B+



Really. Since we have big T105's we could attach two per battery.
-------|>----O------

-------O----|>------

B-   Bulb  Diode  B+


That's it.

Chris