How to Make an AA Battery Charger

Making a AA battery charger can be fairly simple and inexpensive. It comes in handy for charging AA batteries for cameras, flashlights, toys, portable audio players and other devices. It prevents late night store trips when the batteries in the TV remote die.

Things to have on hand:

• Sixteen gauge wire


• Wire cutters


• Wire strippers


• Silicone diode


• Light bulb base


• Screwdriver


• Electrical tape


• Flat piece of wood


• Sixty watt light bulb


• Two wood screws


• Electric wall plug with six inches of wore attached

1. Cut two pieces of wire six inches long.


2. Cut the remaining piece of wire ten inches long.


3. Strip the insulation from the ends, leaving one to one and a half inches of wire exposed.


4. Taking the wire lead from the silicone diode, wrap it around one of the screw connections on the light bulb base.


5. Tighten the connection with the screwdriver.


6. Using one of the six inch wires, wrap one end around the second wire lead of the diode.


7. Place electrical tape around the joints to secure.


8. Connect the bare end of the six-inch wire to one of the leads of the electric plug by twisting them together.


9. Wrap the other end of the wire to the second screw connector at the bottom.


10. Tighten with the screwdriver.


11. Connect one end of the ten-inch wire with the other lead of the plug by twisting them together.


12. Wrap the joins with electrical tape.


13. Place the light bulb base onto the wood and secure it with the two wood screws.


14. Place a sixty-watt bulb into the bulb base.