Wojtek(KeFir) wrote: Well, that's right. But take a look at all modeling packages. You are just charging directly, using the built-in security device. In turn, in laptops is how you write, the battery electronics is permanent.
To be honest, I hardly know these "buy" chargers, maybe they have such "in themselves" protections or maybe they do not. It seems to me quite unlikely, these chargers are usually quite universal, for different types of cells, so they would have to have these protection systems configured in some way, which would probably be quite complicated and rather expensive.
Certainly they have such protection built into the software, but the use of a hardware security system is advisable. It is such a "last line of defense cells" in the situation when everything else fails: the processor will hang, the output transistor will break short, etc. It is just a certain redundancy, using a relatively simple hardware layout, for which the probability of failure is quite small, of course, this is not an impossible event, but there are no devices with 100% reliability.