On Fri, 1 Aug 2014 17:58:11 -0700, William \ wrote:
:: Are there any "reference designs" for solar charging of Li-ion
:: batteries?

Search Texas Instruments and Linear Technologies they have various designs=
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and some development boards.  Some of the TI designs are horrendously drawn=
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IMO, but they have some nice high input voltage chips :)

Onsemi have a couple of reference designs as well.


I've an 73W panel with Voc of 90 (nom 67v9) and an Isc of 1A19 which I'm=20
slowly getting around to tinker with. It will hopefully power 3 * 25W 24vdc=
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LED arrays for lighting my hallway via some nice LiFePo4 batteries.

Colin

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