Self-powered Fast Battery-Testers


Posted on Feb 6, 2014

This circuit runs a fast battery test without the need of power supply or expensive moving-coil voltmeters. It has two ranges: when SW1 is set as shown in the circuit diagram, the device can test 3V to 15V batteries. When SW1 is switched to the other position, only 1. 5V cells can be tested. FET Q1 provides a constant current generator biasing LED


Self-powered Fast Battery-Testers
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D1 and Q2 Base. In this manner D1 illuminates at a constant intensity, independent of battery voltage from 3 to 15V and Q2 (when P1 is closed) applies a constant current load of about 120mA to the battery. IC1 is a square wave generator oscillating at about 3KHz. IC2 acts as an inverter and drives, together with IC1 but in anti-phase, Diodes D2-D6 and Capacitors C4-C7, obtaining a voltage multiplication. C8 is charged by this raised voltage and R8-R10 form a voltage divider biasing the Base of Q3. When P1 is open, a very light load is applied to the battery under test and Q3 Base is biased in order to maintain LED D7 in the off state. Closing P1, a 120mA load is applied to the battery under test. If the battery is not fully charged, its output voltage starts reducing: when this voltage falls 0. 6V below the battery nominal voltage, Q3 Emitter becomes more negative than the Base, transistor is hard biased and D7 illuminates. Obviously, this state of affairs lasts a few seconds: the time spent by C8 to reduce its initial voltage to the new one, proportional to the voltage of the loaded battery. If the battery under test is in a good charging state, its output voltage did not fall under a 120mA loading current, so LED D7 stays off. When testing 1. 5V batteries, the circuit formed by Q1, Q2, D1, R1 & R2 doesn`t work well at this supply voltage, so a 150mA load current is applied to the BUT by means of the 10 Ohm resistor R3...




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