I decided to dedicate another blog to experimentations with the Renaissance Charger.
I received the RC-1AU-120 this afternoon.
This charger, to my great surprise can do lead acid battery as well as what I expected from it, the NI-MH and Ni-CD, ranging from 1.5v to 24v.
I'll post the results here with various battery types.
For future reference: The price of the unit was $350.00 USD and the cost for custom was too much for my taste: $47.14CAD
Renaissance Charger Website: http://www.r-charge.com/products.html
1 comment:
High Charge power consumption from grid with Energenx chargerDid you actually know that your charger is consuming more than 5WATT (U.I.COS(Phi)) power at the primary windings of the Trafo that seems to feed the inside circuitry when charging/rejuvenating those small NiCd and NiMH cells?
This is something to consider when the charge can take 5-12 Hours!
It might be ok for a 1-time dead battery recovery but certainly I would not recommend for recharging good batteries!The design seems not suitable for those small batteries - it really would have been better to be powered from "air" or the non-emptiness of vacuum i/o from the grid.
Maybe other readers have better understanding of how the chargers are built up e.g. do they contain energy inefficient control circuitry such as certain non-efficient embedded microcontrollers or bipolar Transistors used as switches?
Something is dissipating unreasonable amount of power inside!
Did not spot any big capacitors inside which could have made it more efficient.
Considering the relative high power consumption it needs redesign. Surprisingly the main circuitry is made invisble in a kind of dark resin coating.
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