[ausev] discrete battery charging

[Erik]

If one fails ( and you now have 11 more chargers to fail) all but one
battery are fully charged, and you will quickly reverse the run down battery
and kill it. The question is how do you know for sure that all chargers have
done what they're supposed to. If you can ensure that, then the system
works.

Erik

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 1:01 PM, <tomsmail at wtez.net> wrote:

> Hi,
> I was wondering if anyone has built or thought of displacing the cost of a
> large high voltage pack charger with multiple smaller 12V battery chargers
> that could run in parallel on a series connected pack, each with
> microprocessor controlled independent three stage charge regime (either IUU,
> IUI).  On the surface it seems doable: A 30 A vector charger can be had for
> less than 80 bucks.  12 of those would be $960 - far less than a Manzanita,
> and with implicit charge equalization.
> What am I missing?
> Regards,
> Tom
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