I have designed a battery charger circuit. The circuit is simple AC to DC power supply circuit, it is composed of a 220 Volt to 16 Volt stepdown transformer, a diode bridge and a capacitor.

Now the problem is that whenever I connect the charger to the battery the battery starts taking high current up to 19 A and the diode bridge is burnt because the diode bridge can't withstand current higher than 10 A.

How can I limit the current to 10 A so that the current is kept in 10 A safe range for the diode bridge. Note that I can't find a high current diode bridge in market here.