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Old 11-21-2002, 05:22 PM
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Well, lets see. the best way to extend the charge time is replacing the cap or the resister. A larger value on either will give you a longer charge time. The cap is a 10uF and times the charge for 45 seconds. If you replace it with a 20uF the time would double, 30uF and it would triple and so on. If you do this pay attention to the polarity of the cap. Electrolytic caps have positive and negative leads and need to be replaced the same way. The negative lead is the one on the side of the cap with the stripe. Usually the resister is changed to lengthen or shorten the timing circuit, but I haven't looked at it enough to figure those values. Either way will produce the same result. Simply pulling the cap out won't work and would disable the circuit all together. I would suggest hooking the charge pad directly to the batteries in the controller for an unlimited charge time at a higher output.
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