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Re: Backup Battery Charging Circuit
Last year one of our engineers made a schematic to charge our back up battery. I am not sure if he knew that ifirobotics had one, but we built the circut and were going to use it to charge the battery for use with the camera, but when arriving at Trenton, we found the bot to be 20 pounds overweight, so the camera got the boot and along with it the need to charge the back up battery. We never got to test the circut, but I am pretty sure all of the parts are avalible from radio shack's parts cases.

Yes it is normal for a charger to outut at a higher volatage than the battery. Otherwise it would take a very long time for the battery to charge.
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