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NIMH NICD BATTERY CHARGER CIRCUIT PIC16F877 PIC16F876
NiCd NiMH Charger Circuit The accu cycler project presented here is an excellent solution for charging and discharging NiCd and NiMH accumulators for R/C modelers and others who make use of these...
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Grid Powered Battery Charger – The Plans using PIC16F676
You get a really good feeling when you plug in some lights and appliances and power them with your own electricity from the sun or wind. You get a really bad feeling when you run those items and the...
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Intelligent NiCd/NiMH Battery Charger using PIC16C711
This cheap and easy to build NiCd/NiMH Battery Charger is suitable for automatically charging a wide range of batteries for many applications. Proper chargers are usually expensive and cheap chargers...
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PIC based UPS Schematic / Firmware / PCB Layout
Microchip’s Digital Pure Sine Wave Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) Reference Design is based on the dsPIC33F “GS” series of digital-power Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs). This reference design...
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DATA LOGGER measures and stores voltage using PIC16F876
Introduction This circuit is a data logger that records voltage samples at specific time intervals. I’ve used it to record the voltage discharge curve on NiCad battery packs. The data file can be...
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Automatic Charger Sharing for Motorcycle Battery Charger using PIC16F628A
Description This project came about because I have three motorbikes and being a bit of a fair weather biker they don’t get used much over the winter months. I have an OptiMate 4 charger that I connect...
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Tiny AVR Microcontroller Runs on a Fruit Battery
Some of the fruit and vegetables we eat can be used to make electricity. The electrolytes in many fruit and vegetables, together with electrodes made of various metals can be used to make primary...
View ArticleAutomotive Voltage Monitor using PIC12F683
Description Recently I got a new motorbike and on my second trip out, with only 50 miles on the clock the rectifier/regulator unit failed. The battery on a bike is pretty small and with the head light...
View ArticlePIC 12F675 Programmable 12V Battery Monitor
Being an active outdoor guy, I have a few different types of 12V lights and a variety of battery types. – For flying RC planes and quadcopters at night, we use sealed lead acid batteries to power our...
View ArticleBATTERY CHARACTERIZER using PIC18F252
Introduction This circuit is a battery characterizer that applies a fixed load to a charged NiCad or NiMH cell and measures milliamp-hour capacity as it discharges. There is no single load that can be...
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