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Old 02-08-2009
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Originally Posted by neilmcd View Post

...What to do? One theoretical option might be to fiddle around with adding an extra resistor on the charging side of the battery that prefers the lower charging voltage...

Others have covered this better, but it probably needs to be said, to think twice about the resistor approach. A resistor will only really slow down charging initially. It won't lower the voltage much when the current slows down, when the batteries are approaching full charge.
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