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Offline Mev

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USB Charging Boards
« on: September 20, 2014, 02:14:53 PM »
 Someone posted info for these on another forum and thought i'd share here, seem like a decent board for a decent price.

New TP4056 Lithium Cell Charger Module with Battery Protection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw4psECqpwI

$1.50 each delivered http://www.ebay.com/itm/400665520672

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Re: USB Charging Boards
« Reply #1 on: September 23, 2014, 01:34:23 PM »
Thats a nice protection circuit for apps below 6 amps on the output.  If it was a higher amp load fet we could eliminate wiring in mosfets and lift  pins and switch it using its pass thru feature.  Would save room and parts count..

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Re: USB Charging Boards
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2014, 06:16:34 PM »
I got 5 of these and with a battery sled, some 18 series battery heatshrink and a bit of polymorph have some 1 A travel charger for about £1.50 GBP.  You can also put a volt meter between 0 V and IC side of R3 and monitor the charge current in amps.

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Re: USB Charging Boards
« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2014, 10:43:55 AM »
Thats a nice protection circuit for apps below 6 amps on the output.  If it was a higher amp load fet we could eliminate wiring in mosfets and lift  pins and switch it using its pass thru feature.  Would save room and parts count..

Visus, this is a little over my head. Do you have a charger you do recommend?

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Re: USB Charging Boards
« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2014, 01:29:55 PM »
The tp4056 unit is a great charger and for the price it is hard to beat.  It is sold in many configurations..
If you want hobby into it,  the most awesome charger,  build Craigs charger,  it is really cool as you can set final resting charge so if you buy 4.35 batts you can charge e or lifespan your batts only charging to 4.1v etc etc...
If you need a smaller footprint Evolv's charger is very tiny 500mA charger.

Here's a tp4056 full review:

http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?345500-Review-of-Measurement-on-Charger-module-with-TP4056-controller


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Re: USB Charging Boards
« Reply #5 on: November 12, 2014, 02:50:09 PM »
This is the charger controller I use;

http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/22005b.pdf

It's a really good one.  There's one board I know of from Adafruit that uses that charger controller chip, but it's a bit pricey;

http://www.adafruit.com/products/259


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