[Milsurplus] question about charging a PRC-68A battery

[Al Klase]

Eugene,

The safe way would be to use a 20-30 volt power supply with a series 
resistor to limit the current to 80 mA into the battery.  This is the 
standard "trickle charge" of C/10 where C is the battery ampere-hour 
capacity, in this case 800 mA.  16 hours will insure full charge, and if 
it sits on charge for a couple of days no harm will be done.

If you have a bench supply with variable current limit, you can use that 
directly without the resistor.

Al

On 4/28/2010 8:33 PM, W2HX wrote:
> Hi there.  I have a PRC-68A which works FB with Brooke's AA battery adapter.
> I also acquired one of those NiCd rechargeable batteries for this radio.  It
> says the following on it:
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> 15 VOLTS 0.80AH AT 0.16A
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> I do not have a proper charger, per se, but can anyone tell me how I might
> charge this battery with a DC power supply and an ammeter? What would the
> correct set up lok like? Would I set the volts to whatever necessary to get
> 0.16A or something? Or set the voltage at something set?  The battery
> currently has 5Vdc worth of charge and the battery is NOS, never used.
>
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> thanks
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> 73 Eugene W2HX
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Al Klase - N3FRQ
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