TP4056 may be meet most of those specs, take a look. It's a sort-of knock-off of the LTC4056. Proce is right, package is easy to deal with. Cheerful regards, Bob On Thu, Oct 17, 2013, at 02:24 PM, Dwayne Reid wrote: > Good day to all. >=20 > I've just been handed a project to re-do. It currently uses an=20 > On-Semi NCP1835 Li-Ion battery charge chip in a DFN package. It=20 > looks as if the chip is now obsolete (On-Semi says that the last ship=20 > date was last year). >=20 > They are currently using a single-cell cell-phone battery pack=20 > (Li-Po) rather than Li-Ion but I assume that the charging profiles=20 > are similar, if not identical. >=20 > I'm looking for a similar charge chip. Battery capacity will be=20 > somewhere between 1000 MaHr to 3000 MaHr - probably in the 1000 MaHr > range. >=20 > Although there now appears to be hundreds of chips to choose from,=20 > I'm seeking a recommendation for one that is both easily sourced as=20 > well as being easy to solder (soic, SC-70, etc. I'd prefer not to=20 > deal with DFN package and really don't want to mess with a BGA device. >=20 > I have no idea how far this project will go - volume could be as low=20 > as a few prototypes all the way up to several hundred units. --=20 http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love email again --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .