Re: Battery Chargers and care

[Chris Bryant <list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In my opinion, the Univolt has one thing going for it- it is
nearly bullet proof. After all, it consists of only a few parts- the
transformer, a pair of diodes, and one-three high voltage capacitors.
The most common failure I see in these is the capacitors going bad-
but they usually don't go bad very quickly.
That said- the Univolt design (which hasn't changed
since around '73) is heavy, noisy, does't run off a generator very
well (extremely frequency sensitive), cannot be used without a battery
(or large capacitor) in the circuit and doesn't treat the battery very
well.

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Chris Bryant
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