Battery Charging

India Develops Fast-Charging Durable Sodium-Ion Battery India Develops NASICON Structured Sodium Ion Battery with Six Minute Rapid Charging

Researchers at the Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru, have developed and tested a sodium-ion-powered battery capable of hitting 80% charge in a mere 6 minutes and retaining over 80% capacity even after 3,000 cycles. This development, based on a NASICON-type anode material, is a promising substitute for conventional lithium-ion batteries for electric…

Impact of Super-Fast Charging on Smartphone Battery Life Unveiling the Truth: The Impact of Super-Fast Charging on Smartphone Battery Life using Arduino

In a recent video by Great scott that's been making waves in tech circles, the DIY enthusiast and electronics enthusiast took on the challenge of investigating the impact of super-fast charging on smartphone battery life. He spent three months designing and building a custom circuit to test the effects of both regular and super-fast…

ICC80QSG Single-stage Flyback Controller IC Single-stage Flyback Controller IC for Battery Charging Applications Offers Scalable and Hassle-free Power Designs

Infineon Technologies AG has extended its offering of AC-DC controller ICs by introducing the new ICC80QSG single-stage PWM controller for flyback topologies. This new battery charging IC offers a quasi-resonant mode, switching in valley n (QRMn), and is tailored for battery charger applications offering scalable power designs of up to 130 W – when…

18650 Lithium Battery Capacity Tester using Arduino  18650 Lithium Battery Capacity Tester using Arduino

With the advent of technology, our electronic gadgets and appliances are becoming smaller and smaller with more functional and complex applications. With this increase in complexity, the power requirement of the circuit has also increased and in our quest to make the device as small and as portable as possible, we need a battery which can provide high current for a long…

18650 Lithium Battery Charger & Booster Module How to Build an 18650 Lithium Battery Charger and Booster Module

In this tutorial, we are going to build a Lithium Battery Charger & Booster Module by combining the TP4056 Li-Ion Battery Charger IC and FP6291 Boost Converter IC for a single-cell Lithium battery. A battery module like this will be very useful when powering our electronic projects with lithium batteries. The module can safely charge a lithium battery and boost its…

Simple Battery Level Indicator using Op-amp Simple Battery Level Indicator using Op-amp

In the modern world, we use batteries in almost every electronic gadget from your handheld mobile phone, digital thermometer, smartwatch to Electric Vehicles, aeroplanes, satellites, and even Robotic Rovers used on Mars whose battery lasted around 700 sols (Martian days). It is safe to say without the invention of these electrochemical storage devices a.k.a. Batteries, the…

Battery Degradation in Electric Vehicles What causes Battery Degradation in Electric vehicles and How to avoid it?

Along with range anxiety and lack of charging infrastructure, battery degradation is also one of the main hurdles in making Electric Vehicles feasible for the masses. Different types of Lithium batteries have different life cycles depending on their chemistries, normally it would be somewhere between a few hundred to a few thousand. Over this charge cycle due to aging,…

PI3USB9201 - USB Battery Charging Detector USB Battery Charging Detector for Simplified Host and Client Design

Diodes incorporated had announced the release of dual role PI3USB9201 USB BC 1.2 detector that has both host and client circuitry, it helps the designers to optimize the BoM size and cost of adding USB Type-C interface circuitry in the electronic devices. The available market solutions require devices to dedicate themselves to either host or client mode, but the PI3USB9201…