Trickle charger overkill

Kinja'd!!! "Tekamul" (tekamulburner)
06/11/2018 at 15:52 • Filed to: None

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Coworker left his headlight on. Break out the $3500 charger.....

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DISCUSSION (13)


Kinja'd!!! Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! > Tekamul
06/11/2018 at 15:59

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More details plz


Kinja'd!!! jimz > Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW!
06/11/2018 at 16:01

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he’s using a $3000 lab-grade programmable DC power supply in constant-current mode to do something a $20 battery minder could do ;)


Kinja'd!!! Tekamul > Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW!
06/11/2018 at 16:03

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What JimZ said. He doesn’t own a $20 charger, but we got 5 Keithleys currently powered down in the lab. He even bothered to ‘4-wire’ connect it, so the voltage can be extra accurate.


Kinja'd!!! GTI Sprinks > Tekamul
06/11/2018 at 16:05

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Had to send this to a coworker. Looks like some shit we’d pull in lab. I know we’ve power-cycled prius batteries for experiments on our gamry units previously.


Kinja'd!!! Eric @ opposite-lock.com > Tekamul
06/11/2018 at 16:08

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I miss working in a serious engineering department where we all had these on our desks.


Kinja'd!!! Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! > jimz
06/11/2018 at 16:10

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Lol


Kinja'd!!! Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! > Tekamul
06/11/2018 at 16:10

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Lol


Kinja'd!!! His Stigness > jimz
06/11/2018 at 16:39

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Why not use what you’ve got handy?


Kinja'd!!! His Stigness > Tekamul
06/11/2018 at 16:40

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I think I need to get that to maintain the battery in my Mercedes and TDI.


Kinja'd!!! Tekamul > His Stigness
06/11/2018 at 16:42

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Maybe for the Mercedes. The TDI only deserves the Rigol knockoff.


Kinja'd!!! His Stigness > Tekamul
06/11/2018 at 16:46

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Whoa there brah. I love my TDI as much as my Mercedes. Sometimes more since it actually works more of the time.


Kinja'd!!! jimz > His Stigness
06/11/2018 at 18:55

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I’ve powered a laptop with one (dead AC adapter, snipped the plug end) to see how much current it was drawing at idle and under load.


Kinja'd!!! barnie > Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW!
06/16/2018 at 21:12

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$20 or $3k... Got the job done, didn’t it? As long as he wasn’t hogging the PS. Something I’ve done