摘要 |
Apparatus for charging a battery under acceptance current control. Two SCR's are included in a bridge circuit for supplying charging current to the battery during alternate half cycles. A transistor, connected in a feedback configuration to the gates of the SCR's, diverts gate current from the SCR's to delay the firing angle in the event the charging current exceeds the maximum safe value. A single element, a gassing rate sensor contained in the battery case, is coupled to the transistor and is the only additional element required to produce acceptance current control of the charging current.
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