Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Hardware for the Energy Brain

Most of these components were left over from other projects:



My experience building charge controllers and switching power supplies is limited. To save time I ordered this little circuit from browndoggadgets.com:


This 3.7V Li-Ion charge control circuit accepts 5V Vin and has an integrated 5V boost supply that feeds off the battery. My hope is to modify the circuit board so that the ATtiny85 uC can turn the 5V boost supply on and off as needed.