On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:47:37 -0400, ASAAR wrote:

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:35:45 +0200, imbsysop wrote:

I agree on your points .. I was not aware of the "newer"(?) negative
pulse charging systems that probably do a better job in preserving the
microcrystaline structure of the "internal chemical battery soup" ...
as to "smart chargers" is there any other method that can be
considered "intelligent" than monitoring the voltage dip ? If a
charger doesn't use this method, I for one would not qualify it as an
"intelligent charger"

I suppose that measuring current would be about as useful, but I
agree that the smart chargers probably do monitor the voltage. What
I meant though, was that smart chargers don't necessarily have to
use current pulses to charge batteries. I think a truly smart
charger would require smart batteries that have a very small amount
flash RAM. snip ..

:-) guess we are talking about a different type of technology now ?
maybe it will happen but maybe not with cheap AA NiMH's ?
It is my feeling that many people do not care too much about efficient
charging of their batteries and as such discard an astronomic lot of
"faulty" batteries that actually have no problem at all except bad
charging ?