Check out what I found on www.ti.com

[ibedonc]

http://focus.ti.com/lit/an/slua055/slua055.pdf

[JW]

Wow, the pdf downloaded nicely for me.

 Just cought a glimpse of it. That'll Take some time to digest.

JW

[hvirtane]

Hi,

I also downloaded the stuff.

The circuit looks to be quite complex,

but otherwise the article looks to be good.

I will try to study it more later.

- Hannu

[RatOmeter]

I likes it.

I think the first section is a must-read for everyone here who might be fiddling with lead-acid batteries in their long-term setup.  It explains an (the?) ideal charging process.

If the specialized components used are not too out-of-date (document written in 1999), I'd like to built this circuit to use.  I might also layout a PCB for it if it works as well as I think it might (I have a little more time for this kind of stuff since the start-of-semester crunch is out of the way here at OSU).

[ibedonc]

still available from digikey

I was looking for a charger to use in my FSW inverter , I think I will use this

the SCC3 charger I made is working good