Reverse Battery Protection?

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brightnight1

Joined Jan 13, 2018
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I'm sure it depends highly on the application, current, etc, but for a low power device like a PIR circuit, what are some of the ways you could implement components so that a circuit would be protected if a battery was plugged in backwards? (besides making it impossible to plug the battery in backwards). A diode perhaps?
 

BR-549

Joined Sep 22, 2013
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The battery compartment and terminals usually take care of that.

Polarity is usually protected for aux pwr connections.
 

dendad

Joined Feb 20, 2016
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If there is voltage headroom, a simple series diode will suffice.
For high current devices, a series fuse followed be a reverse diode to blow the fuse on reverse volts is pretty common.
And a lot of boards use a FET as above.
 

crutschow

Joined Mar 14, 2008
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The FET has the advantage of a very low forward-drop, equal to the circuit current times the FET on-resistance, as shown in Bordodynov's simulation.
This is a consideration if you want the battery to last the maximum time.
 

AnalogKid

Joined Aug 1, 2013
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The 1.2 ohm resistor represents a 10 A load on the circuit after the MOSFET switch. The software likes to have something there for some of its calculations.

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