hello

as a mechanical engineering student, i need to charge batteries for drone at far point with solar panel.
now my first mission is only to can be charge batteries with those little solar panels.
i need to add to the circuit components (1 or 2) that will stabilize the voltage from the solar cell (mppt i think) and also Something to make sure the current is flowing in one direction only, from the panel to the battery and not the other way around.
i added a photo of the exactly solar panels i have.

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hi Or,
Welcome to AAC.
Those solar panels are very low power, what is the rating of the drone battery pack you need to charge, ie: V/A
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hi Or,
Welcome to AAC.
Those solar panels are very low power, what is the rating of the drone battery pack you need to charge, ie: V/A
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hey, for the beginning i want to charge battery 3.7 V with this solar panels.
this exactly battery

 

hi Or,
This PDF is for a typical 3.7V battery, the mAh capacity is higher than your battery, but the charge requirements are similar.
Using that Solar Panel it could take a very long time to charge, as the voltage output is only 3.6V, at 50mA, for full Sun.

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Operating V of S C is about 3.6 V, or with blocking diode , 3.1 V, so I would but 2 in series = 6V. 10 parallel pair should give 500 mA - 1 hour charge time. Shunt S Cs with 5W, 4 V zener diode before blocking diode or diodes or equivalent.

 

If this is a one shot deal, get something off-the-shelf that is optimized for charging batteries from a solar panel. One challenge with a solar cell is the voltage and current will be up and down depending on the sun exposure. A properly designed circuit can take what power is available and boost or buck the voltage to a level that makes the most efficient use of the available power. Here is one example:

https://www.kr4.us/sparkfun-sunny-buddy-mppt-solar-charger.html

 

You need a battery charger circuit made for charging your one cell Li-PO battery. All toy drones come with one. Mine have a USB input from my computer. The maximum charge for a single Li-PO battery is 4.20V so your battery might explode or catch on fire when the solar panel overcharges it to 4.8V.

The Sparkfun charger has a 6V minimum input so your solar panel voltage is too low and a output current that is too high for your battery.

 

I would not use anything but a commercial charge controller for Li batteries with the exception of Li-Fe-PO4 batteries. Solar panel V can be shifted down or up with buck or boost- buck converter to match charge controller.

 

The solar panel is too weak for its voltage to be boosted. It produces 4.8V with no load and it produces 50mA when its voltage is only 3.6V. If its 3.6V is boosted to 4.2V then the current to charge the 400mAh battery will be so low that the battery will not charge in one full sunny day.

The 280mAh Li-PO batteries for my RC airplanes use a Li-PO charger that has an output of 300mA and the batteries charge in a couple of hours or less, depending on if they were discharged all the way down to the 3.6V storage voltage or down to 3.8V when the flying was still good.

 

Weak solar panels but OP has 50 of them- I think?

 

Panels output max 0.18W each (output on an average day about 0.5Whrs) .... Battery capacity is 1.5Whrs

Accounting for losses ten panels will charge battery in around 3 or 4 hrs

 

Hello
Trying to chart Lipo battery (3.7V ,800mah) with 8 solar panels (2 units in parallel each of 4 panels in series ).
I connected the panels to the mppt and also the battery, the panels provides 16V, i have set the output voltage (from the mppt) to 4.5V.
the problem is that instead of charging the barttery, the battery is dicharging.
Maybe someone know what could be the problem ?
Photos attached below.

 

Maybe put a diode on the battery so power can only go in and not out.

 

If you add a diode in series with the battery then it will never become any where near fully charged. The charger circuit might even reject charging the "defective battery" that never becomes fully charged.

Maybe the Sunny Bunny circuit is defective or is not made correctly. My Li-PO battery chargers fully charge a battery then detect it and shut off the charging, and light a "finished" LED. I can leave a battery for weeks and it does not discharge like yours does.