Well it looks like i have been aproved, i hope to flesh out some of the details of the high level design on paper over the next couple of days however it wont take that long

expect a pic or two next week while i wait for the hardware.

at the moment it looks like a pic will be doing the time critical stuff and IO stuff such as getting analog voltages and and generating PWM signals as well as battery charging, however i plan to have the EFIKA do the heavy lifting and tell the pic what to do

ie turn that on, change that voltage, i also plan to have the pic run an interpreter so you can add needed commands or 'patch' the exsisting ones without reflashing to suit your setup (got 12 battries instead of 2, no problems, just update the correct byte and youre done)

however i picked up a comercial UPS the other day and it has given me some ideas about what i can do better, for one thing i plan to have 12v out instead of having circuitry to step up the voltage only to have it stepped down by the 10+ power supplies i have sitting in frount of me, in fact i plan to replace them all with this ups and just provide 12v and 5v outputs :)

that shuold clean up some clutter

well enogh rambelling and more designing