Batboard

So after talking with a few people today and playing around with my XTS IMPRES bank charger, I thought to myself... Does the cooling fan really need to run all the time? I can see if you had all 6 batteries in it or a few at least, but it doesn't need to run 24/7 when there are no batteries in it.

I put together a slide show of my progress installing a switch on my bank charger, that lets you control the cooling fan. It was fairly painless to install, and turned out pretty decent.

http://members.aol.com/batlabsdotcom/charger.pdf

Enjoy!

-Marc

I've thought about doing the same... mine sits above my bed (easy to grab'n'go) and the fan noise sucks.

I've also thought about swapping to two slower Panaflo/etc. fans, which are uber-quiet. Knowing me, I'd forget to turn the fans on when a battery was in the charger. Maybe add a thermistor.