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Heya! I was reading going through Special:NewPages, when I came across this article:

https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Car-Battery-Charger

I’m no mechanic myself, so I just put on {{acc}}, but can anyone vouch to the accuracy of the article? It just seems quite dangerous to be making homemade recharges for powerful, dangerous, batteries. Not to mention that there are different battery types.

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I took a look at this article and like the idea but my concern is safety and accuracy of the items suggested to use for this task. I have seen many youtubers post both good and bad ways to do this.  I would suggest we lave it as a stub until someone has the time to edit and make it 

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Although it is possible to do it this way, not anyone has the basic knowledge, proper tools, and common sense to make a DIY battery charger that can be safe to use.

 1. The colors on the computer power supply wiring harness do not always match the described instructions and the voltage alone is not enough to prevent an injury or property damage. 

  1. The wire gauge / thickness and load / amperage need to match or could be bad.

  2. Polarity is also a concern if the reader doesn’t understand a/c or d/c, power supply transformers and power inverters. Or at least Good and accurate illustrations of what to and not to do.

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Mmm

@Anna - What do you think? Do you think it’s worth an NFD Dan because honestly, it doesn’t have any references and I’m quite concerned that if you do it incorrectly, you could potentially injure yourself or someone else. 

@Ruben-Gabriel - Thanks for your input. I’ve applied the Stub tag. Do you think it’s work NFD Dan?

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I think it is worth saving although it requires a re-write. I could work with someone to copy-edit and to wikiHow format even detailed intructions and some pictures of the proper basic items through e-mail if anyone is up to the task. Unfortunately, I don’t have the proper device and connection (web/Data) access at the time. 

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What about this: If you can edit the instructions so that they are safe, I can go through and do any styling/formatting changes?

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I defer to @Ruben-Gabriel on this one, @ItsPugle - he knows this kind of project much better than I do! It’s also not out live as is, so like he said, it can stay that way until or unless it’s ready to go for readers:slight_smile:

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Electricity in is usually 240 volts  and 50  hz, in order to charge the battery it has to be transformed and rectified to a lower dc voltage depending on what the voltage of the battery is.

How do how do  you regulate what that is?

The computer power supply is 240 volt in it may not be DC therefore would not work on a battery.

9volts on the outage it would get too hot and potently blow up or burst into flames.

Step 2 doesn’t make sense.  We don’t know what the cover block is.

Step 3  suggests this is 5 volts but is it AC or DC? 

Suggests that this is 12 volts AC and will not charge a DC batter directly as it needs to be rectified to DC

Step 5 it doesn’t matter about yellow to red or black to black as it sounds like three 12 volt power source to charge to batter is AC not D.

Step 6 - what green wires?

Step 7 and 8 this doesn’t make sense, the procedure is dangerous and should not be attempted.

I hope this helps.

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Dang. Thanks for the review:slight_smile:
For the time being, as Anna said, it can stay as not being live and as needed, it may be Nominated for Deletion, or improved for acc/stub is anyone is willing:confused: