> Has anyone played with the inverters/charge controllers in laptop
> battery packs?
> Battery packs can be given new life by changing the cells, but I'm
> more interested in the sophisticated
> charger, inverter thats inside the battery pack. Have a few of them
> on my workbench now.
If you want to know more about how they work, data sheets for typical
charger chips are a good place to start, like this one:
http://www.maxim-ic.com/quick_view2.cfm/qv_pk/2217
If you think you might be able to improve on the performance of them,
the answer is most likely no.
Dave.