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Dual slot battery charger for Parkside 12V Team batteries. Note the pogo pins to charge batteries at different currents. Also note the full complement of EMC and RFI components.

By Julian

Youtuber, shed dweller, solar charge controller aficionado

15 thoughts on “Lidl parkside pdslg12 double battery charger strip down”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Agustín Margarette says:

    Hi, thanks for the excellent video. Will fast charging negatively affect the longevity of the batteries? Do they get hot? Greetings

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Robert says:

    Does anyone know if this charger has reverse polarity battery protection?

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Rui Nunes says:

    How are both the charger and batteries holding up? I assume the charger may be covered by the 3 years warranty but I doubt about the batteries.
    I assume they changed their policy. I had recently 2 batteries going to hell and when I called the company that deals with it they refused to replace the batteries because they were about 2 years old. My batteries had minimal use. The woman over the phone wasn’t friendly either. They just ensure a replacement within 6 months. Very annoying.
    At least a was able to reuse the remaining good cells.

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars M. says:

    Those batteries look very similar to the 12v TACKLIFE batteries which seem very hard to get now.

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Teppo says:

    Thats how you build your input filtering properly. Nothing Else would not pass tuv testing.

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars ian simpson says:

    Sorry mid-roll ad so stopped watching. Enjoy your videos but protesting YouTube's mid-rolls by not continuing to watch any videos they interrupt.

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Steve Fox says:

    how much are they charging for the 4ah 20v packs? i was in lidl the other day and saw them but there was no price. ive already stripped a 4ah 12v pack for the cells but if those packs are cheap enough ill buy one for the cells 🙂

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars ziplock9000 says:

    Julian could you review the extremely popular HX-3S-01 BMS please. I've used search and don't see you looking at it yet.

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Chris Hartley says:

    When you got such a higher than expected power consumption with the second B1 battery, perhaps you should have tried that same battery in the other charging slot. It would have been interesting to see if the slots were balanced.

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Nope says:

    What ever happened to enclosing you back patio for a new workspace, and that little diesel heater you had? How did it work?

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars lez briddon says:

    I must say in response to the Noddy's angle grinder comment that the 20v angle grinder they sell is a beast. Cutting 40mm unistrut is no problem for it etc. Still not fixed my two over discharged batteries (20v), the cells are fine but I can't reset the locked out controller to signal the charger. (That will teach me to use them on other tools…)

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Edoardo Castellaneta says:

    High Julian, those capacitors between primary and secondary are class Y capacitors, designed ho have very low leakage. They are there in order to suppress high frequency transients generated by the parasitic capacitance in the switching transformer. Since the switching converter operates at hundreds of kilohertz and the isolated output is completely floating even a small capacitance in the transformer can cause high frequency interferences on the output and mess with the device being powered. Those capacitors short the ac component of the output to the input drastically reducing EMI. This is so important that even ultra cheap SMPS have interference capacitors. I have seen cases where the absence of these capacitor caused the power supply to even interfere with itself, causing instability and voltage oscillations. Great video as always, keep it up! Cheers form Italy!

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ollie B says:

    I bought a "Tacklife" drill from Amazon a while ago because it was cheap, has charger and battery, I must say, it's got plenty of torque, more than enough for my purposes and feels surprisingly robust. So yeah. I wasn't going to spend hundreds of pounds just to drill some holes in steel plate. Wish I had a pillar drill in a way but there we are. Maybe one day.

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars richard halliday says:

    Just goes to show…….

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars DIY with Batteries says:

    Another cool video with different stuff 🤟

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