a single transistor smart battery charger


Posted on Feb 5, 2014

Electronic Design has a smart battery charger schematic using only a single transistor. This is interesting as similar circuits now contain simple integrated circuits. When the battery`s charge falls below a threshold voltage, it is automatically recharged to a preset voltage. Unfortunately, the circuit has a couple of major flaws. The single sili


a single transistor smart battery charger
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con junction makes the circuit extremely sensitive to ambient temperature changes. In the comments, someone mentions 0. 5V per 10 ° which sounds about right. For portable devices, you can avoid the second flaw by building the circuit into an external charger. However, this is not possible with UPS`s or other homemade backup power supplies.





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