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TVS Diodes | Surface Mount Diodes - Littelfuse
With any batteries that are dried out the impedance as seen from your oscillator output at the battery terminals will be quite high so high amplitude spikes will be more apparent. Take a look with your scope at and around your trigger circuit. Select a TVS just comfortably above the maximum charging voltage! What I do when first charging an unknown battery is connect my scope across the battery and take a look at how the spikes are being absorbed...use an attenuated probe X10 or higher so not to damage the scopes input circuits!! Ideally your trigger circuit should see a steady/stable DC voltage that rises in accordance with the charge voltage on the battery.
I'm looking again at the radiant charging concepts based on our pulse techniques. Safe top off circuits are high on my agenda. My problem is having enough time to spend experimenting!
TVS Diodes | Surface Mount Diodes - Littelfuse
With any batteries that are dried out the impedance as seen from your oscillator output at the battery terminals will be quite high so high amplitude spikes will be more apparent. Take a look with your scope at and around your trigger circuit. Select a TVS just comfortably above the maximum charging voltage! What I do when first charging an unknown battery is connect my scope across the battery and take a look at how the spikes are being absorbed...use an attenuated probe X10 or higher so not to damage the scopes input circuits!! Ideally your trigger circuit should see a steady/stable DC voltage that rises in accordance with the charge voltage on the battery.
I'm looking again at the radiant charging concepts based on our pulse techniques. Safe top off circuits are high on my agenda. My problem is having enough time to spend experimenting!
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