The innovation of dye-sensitized solar cells has expanded the device’s potential up to the point where it might completely oust costly silicon solar cells. In the following post I have explained how you can easily construct this versatile dye-sensitized solar cell using very ordinary materials. This experiment relies on the concept of utilizing the organic […]
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LED Flashlight Circuit using 1.5 V Cell
This LED flashlight circuit is able to power a Luxeon type LED with a single 1.5 V battery. This results in a miniature flashlight that will not run out quickly. By: P. Martin Basically it is a boost converter circuit which boosts the 1.5 V DC from a AAA cell and converts it into a […]
Cell Phone Emergency Charger Pack using Ni-Cd Batteries
In this post I have explained the construction of a simple emergency charger pack using Nicket Cadmium (Ni-Cd) batteries for your cellphones and smart phones for emergency charging of your cellphone, so that next time you are never stuck on a highway with a full discharged dead cellphone battery. Circuit Concept It often happens, our […]
Gel Cell Battery Charger Circuit [Constant Current, Constant Voltage]
In this post I have explained what are gel cell batteries and also learn how to build a specialized charger for charging a gel cell battery, with full calculations. The proposed circuit works in two modes: it starts charging a discharged gel cell battery with constant current, until the full charge voltage is reached across […]
6 Useful DC Cell phone Charger Circuits Explained
A DC cell phone or mobile phone charger is a device which charges a cellphone from an available DC supply source. The device converts the unregulated DC source into a constant current and constant voltage output which becomes safe for any mobile phone charging. In this article I have explained how to build DC to […]
Series 2S, 5S Li-Ion Cell Charger using BQ7718
This BQ7718 series 2S to 5S series Li-Ion cell charger is designed to monitor the voltage of each of the li-ion cells independently, with reference to an internally set reference level. As soon as any of the cell voltage tends to go above the reference level, it triggers an internal delay timer. This delay timer […]