Questions tagged [battery-charging]
Please specify the battery type in your question. Include chemistry (e.g. lead-acid), voltage, number of cells and how they are connected (series or parallel), capacity (in A·h or W·h).
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How can I use an IC family or adapter to switch automatically from solar cell to batteries & reverse?
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How can I use an IC family or adapter to switch automatically from solar cell to batteries & reverse ?
if no load => solar cells ...
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charging 24v LiFePO4 with DC power supply intended for LED strip lights
I want to charge my 200Ah, 8 cell GBS LiFePO4 using my Honda 2000 watt generator. (I live on a boat). I have a BMS, active monitoring and all that. I just want to make sure the below power supply is ...
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What's the optimal way to charge a battery? What are pitfalls to avoid? [on hold]
My goal is to keep my device's battery's capacity as high for as long as possible. I am only equipped with the power supply that comes with the device.
What is the best way to charge the device? What ...
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Measuring recharge time and discharge time of VRLA/SLA battery in real time with MCU
I don't have any experience with batteries, so I would greatly appreciate some help with this topic.
I did some research about battery SoC, gas/fuel gauge, coulomb counting. But all of that is just ...
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How to design a capacitive power supply with 4v battery backup?
I want to make a simple and cheap LED driver with a backup battery on mains failure. The battery (4v Lead Acid) should be protected from overcharging.
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Would this circuit works? (what are the ...
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Bad Practice - Charging Lithium Batteries while powering circuit?
I'm using a 2s BMC to charge a 2s2p lithium battery pack (7.4v, ~6Ah). The output of the charging circuit is the same as the input - they're not separate. As a result, when I want to charge the ...
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Increase Boost Converter Current
I'm building a portable charger for my phone using a large 2.7v supercapacitor, which uses a very simple boost converter to create 5v. I am not concerned about input current, however, when a load (my ...
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Pager system charging pin and socket
Does anyone know what these pins are called? This is a pager from paging system used in certain restaurants. I'd like to know what it's called as I want to use it in my device's design. I need to know ...
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Charging a battery
So we have a charger outputting V volts and I Amperes and two rechargable batteries of the same capacity Q coulombs but different emf's V1&V2.
Which battery would charge faster?
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So ...
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How to charge a battery when the charging socket is broken? [on hold]
First of all I'll explain my situation: I own a Bluetooth speaker, more precisely this one: http://www.leicke.eu/en/products/EP18108
Due to my clumsy hands it fell while the USB cable was connected ...
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Necessary voltage to charge NiMH using Solar Panel
I'm trying to understand which voltage I need to charge my NiMH batteries so I can purchase the components to do this.
Actually I have 2x AA Ni-MH 1.2 V 1900 mAh and 4x Solar Panel 2 V ...
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Calculate battery state of charge percentage
What is the correct formula to calculate battery state of charge percentage based on the battery type (12v, 24v, 48v and so on) and the current battery voltage.
For example if I have a 12v battery ...
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Rebuilding Makita NiMH Battery with Cells of Bigger Capacity. Will it Charge Properly on the Old Charger?
This is for a Makita 6932FD impact driver. It runs off a 14.4V NiMH battery of 2.6Ah. I ordered sub-C cells (with solder tabs, don't worry :P) that are 4.2Ah.
I was reading about DIY NiMH chargers ...
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Load switch, battery charger, and battery supervisor IC? [closed]
I am looking to power an ESP32 off a wall wart. I would like to add a battery backup. A 18650 Li-Ion battery would be enough.
To power the circuit I figured I could use a simple diode OR feeding a ...
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Gel battery overcharge
I have 2 identical 12 V 100 Ah lead-acid batteries in parallel. I used to keep them fully charged with a mains charger, one with a built-in algorithm for these kind of batteries.
I recently hooked up ...
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Charging Multiple 3S Lithium Ion Packs Together
This is my current situation, just to provide background:
I wanted to build these small battery pack modules that were 3S2P as a modular system, where a pack could be used with many different ...
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How do I use 12 V batteries to power DC loads and charge them at the same time? [duplicate]
I need to power an air pump for fish pond aeration (not yet bought) and also led bulbs (not yet bought).
I have two used, but still ok, 12 V 200 Ah flooded deep cycle batteries. I decided ...
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Measuring battery voltage in PV scenario with MPPT charge controller with inverter
So I'm doing a PV project with wifi enabled statistics.
I'd like to see the watts coming in and out and the battery charge level, estimated battery charge and discharge time.
I'm designing PCB to ...
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Net Output current from two charge controllers producing different voltages connected in parallel to a battery bank [on hold]
I would like to know the effect of charging a 48 V battery bank from two solar charge controller sources (each charge controller is from a different manufacturer) whose outputs are connected in ...
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Battery capacity calculation/method [closed]
While calculating battery power capacity requirement for a circuit consisting of multiple loads having different power consumption, how should one proceed to avoid any error? How it is done in ...
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Relation between terminal voltage and charging speed in Lithium-Ion/Polymer batteries?
I tested charging a 5200 mAh (20 Wh) battery at 10W.
Its charging level at the beginning was 20%. The terminal voltage was 3.68V. Now, I applied 10W of charging rate to the battery. The terminal ...
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Capacitive discharge excess being used for battery recharging
I am currently designing a circuit similar to a cattle prod that is intended to be attached to a drone. The cattle prod is powered by a lithium-ion battery, charging up a capacitor and then quickly ...
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Capacity/Losses/Charging/Discharging time of lithium ion battery
I am doing calculations for solar panel and I googled to find out that the best suggested battery used with solar panels are Lithiom ion batteries.
I learned from wikipedia that pukert's law is not ...
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Why Peukert's law is always ignored in battery(lead Acid) guides available on Internet?
I am doing battery calculations for off-grid solar panel. I don't get that why battery guides on Internet always ignore Peukert's Law for batteries of solar panel. I want to have good approximations ...
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How to tell a battery's ideal charging voltage with a circuit?
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I've been looking to build a universal charger for my laptop and phone, and I'm wondering; is there a viable way to adjust the input ...
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How to connect led strip to be powered by charger and batteries part 2
Li-ion batteries are nominally 3.6V and three in series will not supply 12V very long if at all.
You could use four series batteries and a 16.8V charger rather than 12.6V then add a 12V buck step ...
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Is there a safe method to revive dead Li-ion batteries?
My dad has an electric leaf blower with a huge 56V battery pack. It broke so he let me dismantle it and salvage the Li-ion batteries inside. There were 16 18650 cells I got, but the voltage on all of ...
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How to connect LED strip to be powered by charger and batteries
I plan on using it mostly plugged in, batteries are there just for extra mobility and won't be used most of the time. Don't know lot about batteries so in first scheme I added a switch (pos. 1 ...
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What should be the V specs of a step down transformer for a 10amp car battery charger
I was looking to create a 10amp manual charger with variable voltage and current option for flooded lead acid battery (normally used in cars).
I only know some basic electronics and usually make ...
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TP4056 - Li-lon Battery Charger temperature problem
I bought an TP4056 component for develop a Li-lon Battery Charger.
While I was designing the circuit that was in the datasheet file I realized that the value of two resistors (R1 and R2) was not ...
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What are different battery capacity algorithms used? [closed]
I need to implement an algorithm to know the capacity of a battery. I don't want to use any external gauges which are available on the market.
Can you suggest which algorithm(s) is/are popular?
Can ...
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Battery sizing for motor?
I have a question regarding battery sizing and solar panel sizing ,I am not from an engineering background that's why i might need some help with this.
I want to run a 24vdc gear motor 180W 11.5 amps ...
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Car battery (lead acid) discharges much, much faster than it charges?
Let's assume a lead acid car battery (12V, 50Ah, 250A output).
According to BatteryUniversity article BU-403:
The charge time is 12–16 hours and up to 36–48 hours for large stationary batteries. ...
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Gate driver for Mosfet PWM switching
I am designing a lead acid battery charger using Battery University for guidance. This is the circuit I made.
At the input, I will be connecting an SMPS rated for 12V 15A, which will be adjusted ...
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What is the reason for high frequency noise when amplifier is powered with battery?
Hi I made a small headphone amp and powered it using lipo battery.voltage is stepped up to 5v.everything is working with direct supply (ie., while charging battery)but as soon as I unplug the charger ,...
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Can I charge 12.6 volt lithium battery (with 3S65P BMS) with 14.4 volt car alternator?
I have a lithium battery pack 3S65P (one cell 2000 mAh) so that's around 130 Ah.
The battery states at 12.8 V when fully charged, then BMS is cutting off the charging to protect it.
My ...
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battery life of rechargeable lithium battery
I am trying to determine the life of a lithium rechargeable battery (approximation) before a complete replacement is required. From Panasonic's datasheet, I see that at avg. 10% discharge, it is rated ...
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Charging NiMh batpack from Bench PSU [duplicate]
I have bench PSU that i use to test out computer parts and i have this battpack 2x 1200mAh NiMh cells connected in series that are outputting 2.4V total. My question is can i charge them via bench PSU ...
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How do I get 5V 10A output from a 3.7V li-ion battery for 64x16 led matrix display module?
Please I am new to electronics and new here. I'm doing a project which involves the use of a 18650 li-ion battery (or two as may be the case) to power a 64x16 led matrix display module which (...
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Charging a lead acid battery with a lower bulk voltage
Will a lead-acid battery completely charge when using a bulk voltage below the one indicated on the specs sheets for it, even if it takes longer?
In my case the battery is in a place with temperature ...
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Is my 12v lead acid battery 100% dead?
so I got a ups with a 12v lead acid battery that was constantly on so the water inside the cells has disappeared, initially the reading voltage was 0.3v, and when I added distilled water it generally ...
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Charging an ezip battery with solar panels
How do I charge a 24v ezip battery using my solar panels setup?
I have an existing solar system 2x100 watt panels in parallel using a PWM charge controller and a 12v 100ah battery.
The simplest ...
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Multi-Cell Lithium battery balancing circuit explanation
I found a great application note on building a multi-cell lithium battery charger with cell balancing.
http://www.cypress.com/file/70891/download
The great thing about this one is that you implement ...
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Does a 3rd-Party Cable cause any harm when charging your Phone with the original Power Brick? [closed]
When using the original Power Brick the Smartphone came with to charge it, does a 3rd-Party cable cause any harm to the device or is there no difference to using the original cable?
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Need help with wiring for a battery
Sorry for the messy diagram, but that's what my circuit currently looks like.
The s stands for a 12v sensor, and the led (light strip) being used is also 12v
My question is, whether or not it is ...
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Should a off-grid wind charge controller be UL certified? [closed]
I recently bought a 2kW wind generator, 48V Charge controller and a UL certified off grid wind inverter for my Home based wind project prototype. My charge controller which I am using to rectify the ...
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What is the best battery configuration for a solar powered electric fence setup?
I have two solar panels: SunWize SW-85P; 85W max power, 5.1A, 16.7V.
I have a charge controller: SOLAR BOOST 2000E.
I have four 12V batteries: two Interstate SRM-24 (couple years old), two CarQuest ...
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How to limit HV capacitor charging current?
I have a voltage doubler, which is connected to mains (without galvanic isolation):
It enticed me with its simplicity, configurability and option between charging speed or desulfatability.
The ...
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what extra circuit to make a LiPo charger to a LiPo charger can sharing load?
As a (LiPo charger)(Charger A), I refer to this
(LiPo charger can sharing load)(Charger B), this
So, I have a LiPo battery with protection module. Can I just connect the LiPo and a LOAD in parallel ...
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What is the internal resistance of a dead NiCad battery?
I have a dead NiCad 19.2 V drill battery and I aim to jump it.
I have a transformer with a capacitor - a DIY DC supply which someone made - which outputs 33V. I plan to put the 33V across the NiCad ...
