Hi,
I'm new to this forum and I'm hoping if someone or some members can assist me on designing a charging controller for a battery pack I'm making. Obviously I'm no expert in electronics but can understand at least the basics.
My goal is to create a charge controller that will charge a 12V battery from an AC power supply. The battery's capacity will be anywhere from 10,000 - 20,000 mAh. All the controller has to do is to allow an AC adapter to properly charge the 12V battery and maintain the charge once it's full without overcharging and possibly damaging the battery. Not sure if this stuff is already built into typical A/C adapters or not as I'm not sure what's inside a typical A/C power supply.
Also another wanted feature of the controller is for it to be as small and thin as possible. I'm looking to keep the height of the charge controller to a minimum.
Any tips and help to achieving this would be greatly appreciated!
Oops, forgot to ask one more thing. I'm looking to possibly integrate solar cells into the system to alternatively charge the battery but I don't know if it's possible to use 6 1.75W 0.5V 3x6 solar cells to charge a 12V battery. If possible I'm assuming there would have to be some type of voltage stepper as the total amount of volts achievable by that amount of cells would only amount to 3V. Please correct me if I'm wrong on that or if it's even possible. Thanks!
I'm new to this forum and I'm hoping if someone or some members can assist me on designing a charging controller for a battery pack I'm making. Obviously I'm no expert in electronics but can understand at least the basics.
My goal is to create a charge controller that will charge a 12V battery from an AC power supply. The battery's capacity will be anywhere from 10,000 - 20,000 mAh. All the controller has to do is to allow an AC adapter to properly charge the 12V battery and maintain the charge once it's full without overcharging and possibly damaging the battery. Not sure if this stuff is already built into typical A/C adapters or not as I'm not sure what's inside a typical A/C power supply.
Also another wanted feature of the controller is for it to be as small and thin as possible. I'm looking to keep the height of the charge controller to a minimum.
Any tips and help to achieving this would be greatly appreciated!
Oops, forgot to ask one more thing. I'm looking to possibly integrate solar cells into the system to alternatively charge the battery but I don't know if it's possible to use 6 1.75W 0.5V 3x6 solar cells to charge a 12V battery. If possible I'm assuming there would have to be some type of voltage stepper as the total amount of volts achievable by that amount of cells would only amount to 3V. Please correct me if I'm wrong on that or if it's even possible. Thanks!