Safe battery charging?

[mackrackit]

I though that this would bring up discussion among different parts here (Bruce, Melanie, skimask and others), but then apparently not! If this is not the right place to discuss such a matter, then could you please advice where to ask such a question. Please!

When Ingvar replied and your response had this in it

There are a lot of information floating around,
the only problem is that you have not build before such a charging(/discharging) systems,
and so you lack the practical experience...

I guess others did not want you telling them they do not have enough experiance to answer you question.

You could search the forum:
http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/show...ttery+charging
http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/show...ttery+charging
http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/show...ttery+charging
http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/show...ttery+charging
http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/show...ttery+charging
http://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/show...ttery+charging

Not all of the above talks about your battery arrangement...but you have not told the type of battery you are using, you only told the package size.

But to answer your first question about charging.
Use a constant voltage with an amperage limit for the amount of cells in the system. As the voltage of the battery increases the amperage will naturally drop, giving a taper charge to finish. When the voltage is reached have the system shut off. That simple. All the other methods are just a bunch of hooy.