Questions tagged [batteries]
An electric battery is a device consisting of one or more electrochemical cells that convert stored chemical energy into electrical energy
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Battery Management Controller
I designed a wearable with a 3.7V Li-Po battery (381018). Everything worked good at the begining and now after 6 months I realize some circuits are not charging anymore. For what I understood when I ...
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Help understanding secondary cells discharge curve
This is what I've understood about the process of discharging of a secondary cell. If I have a rechargeable cell, full charged, and I make it discharge at a certain constant current, let's say 1A, I ...
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Non inverting DC-DC converter that makes fix 4V from a decreasing voltage from 4,2V to 2,8V? [closed]
Is it possible to make a a non inverting DC-DC converter that makes a fix 4V from a Li-ion battery's voltage. I need about 1,5A.
The input voltage starts from 4,2V and decreasing to 2,8V as the ...
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How does battery protection ICs sense current
I have a hard time grasping a concept when it comes to a particular type of battery protection ICs (which protects from overcharge/under-discharge and over-current). One example is the BQ2973 from TI, ...
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Connecting breadboards with different batteries to a single switch
I have three different breadboards with ten LEDs & resistors connected in parallel.
All three are powered by a 9v battery.
I was wondering if there would be a way to wire all three batteries to a ...
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How to build a small LED assembly?
I'm building a custom model of the AT-ST from The Mandalorian:
I have the model almost done and I thought it would be really cool to add actual lighting to it. The model is about 6" (16cm) tall, but ...
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Do DeWalt charging safety features reside in a dewalt charger or a dewalt battery? [closed]
This is a cordless battery of the the type I mean, a DeWalt flexvolt:
https://images.app.goo.gl/zKHBsvBnT4ViMJL56
This is the kind of charger I'm talking about:
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Can we use DC-DC Buck convert installed 3.8v battery to power Phone continuously?
I have a Windows tablet whose battery is dead and I want to convert it to without battery to use as a digital photo frame.
Table dead battery is 3.8V
Can I use DC-DC Buck convert (DC-DC converter ...
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Choosing a resistor for balancing lead acid batteries
I have a solar-panel-and-battery kit with a built-in inverter and what not built into the battery box. (Goal Zero Yeti 400) The battery box has Anderson Powerpole connectors for chaining it to ...
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How to drop 5v regular phone charger voltage to 3.7v to run a device, which use 3.7v output battery before
I have Motorola Moto 360 2st edition smartwatch and watch original battery is dead. I have converted smartwatch into table watch in DIY wooden block and added 18650 3.7v battery instead and now its ...
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How much of the loss of battery capacity in higher currents is caused by its internal heating?
For example this page give this data for one AA battery:
0.5A : 1.84Ah
1A : 1.411Ah
2A : 1.18Ah
Is it mainly b/c of the internal heating?
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Powering 9VDC from battery
I've got a Roland TD-11 drum module that I want to power from a battery.
I only need to power it for 2 hours at a time.
Can I please have some recommendations how to achieve this?
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Benefits of square vs. triangular/hexagonal packing of cylindrical battery cells
A triangular or hexagonal packing (depending on your preference of terminology) of circles has a packing density of \$ \pi\sqrt3/6\$ \$ \approx\$ 91% (see here at Wolfram Mathworld, for example), ...
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How long will my x 2 23a 12v battery last running a 300mah camera?
I’ve brought some WiFi cameras to run in bird boxes but the battery life on them aren’t very good at all.
I’ve tried running them from battery power banks but they switch off after the cameras have ...
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2S 18650 Li-ion battery pack conundrum
I recently bought a remote control toy for my son which included 2 2S battery packs, with a single SM-3P plug, and a corresponding USB charger as shown here.
Initially, the car worked fine, though ...
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What is the distance I can put between a 20watt solar panel and a controller and still have enough current to make it work
I purchased a 20 watt solar panel to be mounted to the hardtop of my boat to charge my batteries. The directions say put the controller within five feet of the batteries and the solar panel can be up ...
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Jeita compliance for discharge?
I know there is a Jeita compliance charging scheme for charging batteries. But is there such certification for discharging them in the function of temperature?
The following is an image of the Jeita ...
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Help me with a 4S1P for vacuum cleaner please [closed]
I'm new here, and this is my first time trying to fix my Ilife V7S pro vacuum cleaner battery.
The original battery is this:
I want to replace the 4 18650 with my INR18650-25R daweikala
I have seen ...
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Connecting a light to a battery
my son and I are working through this book called The Thomas Edison Book of Easy and Incredible Experiments.
We are stuck on the first experiment where you make a switch to connect a battery to a ...
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Why is there a lead (Pb) warning on extra heavy duty batteries? [closed]
I have some batteries labelled as Extra Heavy Duty with a picture of a trashcan and the letters Pb for lead, and an x over the trashcan which I believe means not to discard in the trash. The batteries ...
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li-ion battery protection circuit [closed]
My goal: To operate a cellphone using a bench power supply in place of the cellphone's Li-ion battery.
To this end, I removed the battery from the phone and de-soldered the anode and cathode posts ...
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Thoughts on storing electricity in water vapor [closed]
for an engineering class I had to create an electrical energy storage device and I began thinking about thunderstorms (I think it was a cloudy day) and how they create lighting. I know it's not ...
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Charge a car battery from 14V 20A Max - how to limit current?
Could anyone point me in the direction how I would make a circuit to charge a large car battery from an alternator (say 12.5 to 14.5v) depending upon state of charge of the main battery, but it needs ...
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Limit current when charging a battery?
So I am trying to charge a 12V 1.3Ah lead-acid battery(actually they are two 6V batteries in series). Now I have a power supply which says 12V 500mA but actually outputs more like 21V.. No idea why.. ...
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Raspberry Pi UPS circuit review request + improvements
Based on this question I created the following circuit:
Since I made some (component) changes, first I would like to have a validation of the circuit for long-term usage (and some improvements).
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How to discharge batteries using bench PSU?
I've heard that if you can have negative current in PSU, you can use that to discharge batteries. Is this true?
If yes, how to design/modify a linear bench PSU (which have transformer with several ...
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Equivalent circuit of lithium battery
I am trying to figure out what the equivalent circuit is for a Lithium battery. You know, the buttoncell battery (NOT a lithium ion battery). But everything i find is about de lithium ion battery (...
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How are series connected batteries of different voltages (or even same voltages) charged “equally”?
I am trying to understand conceptually, how a series bank of batteries is charged "uniformly". Let's take the example of of six 6V AGM batteries for a 36V golf cart. The charger is 36V nominal but ...
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Sony NP-F battery terminal connector
I'm looking to repair some electronic equipment and am scratching my head why the part I need is so hard to identify.
I recently had a bad connector on an Aputure Tri-8s LED light (Brand new out of ...
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How long will a 32v 15A (500Wh) e-bike battery last outputting at 5V 1A?
I hope it's okay to ask this here
My e-bike has a Lithium Ion battery (32 Volts, 15 Amps), and it has a USB-A output, marked as 5V and 1A,
I have 3 questions:
How long will this battery last while ...
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Li Ion computer battery puncture
[![enter image description here][1]][1]I accidentally punctured just the very first (pouch?) layer on my MacBook lithium ion battery. A smell came out of it but the battery still works fine and holds ...
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ntc half stack V (oltage?)
could somebody assist pls?
im experimenting with battery pack for my cordless chainsaw blackanddecker 36v gkc3630l20 h1 36v.
i created 36v battery pack from lifepo4 batteries instead of liion. it ...
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18650 battery pack. Current distribution
I'm creating a 20s6p li-ion pack from 18650 cells. Here is the design
I am are using 8 by 0.2mm nickel strips rated for 6.5A. With 6 parallel branches that's 6*6.5 = around 40Amps. But since we ...
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How to keep a stable output voltage from changing input voltage
I'm learning about solar panels and bought a 6V panel and a 3.7V Li-Ion battery as well as a solar battery charger, all from adafruit. I also got a boost converter thinking that the output of the ...
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9V 1A adapter and 2*3.7V battery IRF9630 produce sound and gets very hot 9V battery not (metal detector)?
I am not an expert at electronics.I am trying to build a pulse induction metal detector. I have this circuit
from that Book
I am using it with stm 32 blue pill but I have to stabilize the 9v supply ...
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How can I roughly estimate the load in this case?
A DC device operates with three industrial AA batteries meaning 1.5V times three = 4.5V. Besides that I only know that the approximate operating time is is 4 hours.
Is that possible to estimate the ...
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Is it safe to have two batteries in series on a solar panel system with 14.22v and 14.46v?
I have two batteries in series plugged to a solar panel system.
In parallel they used to balance each other perfectly.
But now i'm trying to have a 24v system and I have them in series.
They ...
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Charging a Li-ion battery with a Buck Convertor & ATmega8 [closed]
I'm trying to charge a 7.4 V Li-Ion battery following the CC/CV protocol and have a few questions.
I want to use an SMPS from my old laptop that can provide 20 V/3.25 A and feed that to a buck ...
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Ambiguous labels for AA battery insertion
I have a consumer device that accepts two AA batteries. The battery chamber is designed such that the batteries are inserted from open end of the chamber rather than the side (i.e. along the axis of ...
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Lithium ion Battery
What is the difference between lithium ion battery internal resistance and internal impedance? Are both same, if not which is greater ? How these values will be measured and how they help to analyze ...
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14.8V LiPo Battery Protection
Disclaimer: This is my very first time I have to work with batteries so I have basically no idea whatsoever.
I need to protect a 14.8V LiPo Battery from overcharging/overdischarging. I have looked up ...
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Where to fuse high voltage batteries connected in series?
I have modules of cells in series each with 48V.
I wonder where is the right place to fuse the modules in series. (The current to trip the fuse is the same on every point).
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HowTo create an accurate constant-current dummy load using immersion heaters controlled by Arduino?
Given: variable sized nominal 3.2V LI/LFP battery cells, from little 18650 / 26650 cylindrical A123s up to large prismatics from CALB / Winston etc.
the desire to capacity-test them off grid (no ...
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Current calculations
Emergency lighting solution
Continuing from the previous post above. Firstly I know how to calculate current in a DC situation.
However, since I am using an inverter that produces 220V at its output ...
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What plug type is this?
I recently bought some LiPo battery packs from Ali,
Now im trying to figure out what type of plug it has!
Anyone knows the answer? Would be awesome.
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Low power LiPo cell ADC with an nMOS switch and a resistor or capacitor divider circuit?
This is my first question on this platform and am looking for advice on doing a very low power LiPo battery measurement for a wearable device. My current circuit looks like this: (See image below)
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PWM disables charging battery after heavy load on inverter
I have 2 batteries 12V 80Ah deep cycle lead in series for a 24V system.
I connected an invertor directly to the battery pack.
I have ~600W (~44V) of solar panels connected to the PWM charge ...
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How to active limit the current from a DC source
I have a source with variable power output during the time because it is shared with another devices and this source has not enough power to feed my load (a battery charger for a 1 cell 4.2V lipo) so ...
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Charging current/voltage for lipo batteries
I have a 500mah 1S lipo battery.
I wanted to charge it with my lab bench power supply.
Easy, I thought:
I want to charge at 2C (which is 1A) so I simply set my power supply to 4.20V and 1A limit and ...
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How long can i run this appliance? [closed]
How long could I run a 115 Vac window unit on a 12v 200Ah battery (using a 700W inverter from a 400W solar panel and assuming 100% efficiency)? Thanks!
