Many thanks for the suggestion, Bob. The TP4056 looks ideal for the job. dwayne At 05:08 PM 10/17/2013, Bob Blick wrote: >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. > > > > I've just been handed a project to re-do. It currently uses an > > On-Semi NCP1835 Li-Ion battery charge chip in a DFN package. It > > looks as if the chip is now obsolete (On-Semi says that the last ship > > date was last year). > > > > They are currently using a single-cell cell-phone battery pack > > (Li-Po) rather than Li-Ion but I assume that the charging profiles > > are similar, if not identical. > > > > I'm looking for a similar charge chip. Battery capacity will be > > somewhere between 1000 MaHr to 3000 MaHr - probably in the 1000 MaHr > > range. > > > > Although there now appears to be hundreds of chips to choose from, > > I'm seeking a recommendation for one that is both easily sourced as > > well as being easy to solder (soic, SC-70, etc. I'd prefer not to > > deal with DFN package and really don't want to mess with a BGA device. > > > > I have no idea how far this project will go - volume could be as low > > as a few prototypes all the way up to several hundred units. --=20 Dwayne Reid Trinity Electronics Systems Ltd Edmonton, AB, CANADA (780) 489-3199 voice (780) 487-6397 fax www.trinity-electronics.com Custom Electronics Design and Manufacturing --=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 .