Finished making a glow plug charger at home last nite. Here is some info:

- Standard Male RCA jacks (red or white one in the pic) fit glow plugs very well. Pilfered one from an old audio cable
- Glow plugs typically have a high mah 1.2v NiCds in them. For a typical 2400mah battery, one would charge it at 2.4 amps - 12-14 hours.
one would charge it at 0.24A (240mA) - 12-14 hours - Thanks @sushil_anand




Will post some pictures soon.

Girish

Please provide details of your charger. All you have posted is a photograph of what we refer to as a " mono female  to stereo male, RCA" connector. I cannot see how this has been used for the purpose intended.

And you would need to charge at 0.24 amps (240mAh) and not 2.4 A for trickle charging the battery.

Would it be considered offensive if I enquired about your experience in this area?

@sushil_anand

Thanks for correcting me. It is 0.24 A (240 mA) and not 2.4A. was charging my LiPo when I posted this. Have corrected it in the post as well.

Apologies for not posting enough photographs. Here they come attached showing how have I used it. The connector is the item that most of us would not find in our toolboxes. Figured out the RCA male slides very well between the outer sleeve and the inner shaft and for some right inside the inner shaft (photo).

No, not at all. I don't think I should have any problems in letting know where am I coming from. Helps us stay in the right perspectives . Flying, I am yet to complete a dozen safe landings, so a beginner. Electronics, tweaked my first brushed taiwanese motor when I as ~5, and my first solder burn around 10. Since then, have grown up to, and with, solid state devs, Atmels and PICs etc... I am 32 now. Academically a B.Tech in Comp Sc, MBA. Professionally, I make computer games.

PS: Since you're in Mumbai, you'd know Saurabh Srivastava. We were classmates at school and have spent couple of our half pant years doing weird things with chips and wires.

And here's the one where it slides between the inner shaft and outer sleeve

  Never really thought of using an RCA jack for this !

girish  ... great thought and excellent work...
these are the type of threads that we would like to see more here..

sujju

Many thanks gentlemen...will post more ideas, as and when they come by