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Regulators for Battery Powered Systems

Maxim describes various SMPS regulator topologies for battery powered systems. Isolated and non-isolated topologies are covered. This tutorial presents an overview of regulator topologies for battery-powered equipment. The discussion covers linear regulators, charge pumps, buck and boost regulators, inverters, and flyback designs. The importance of peak current is explained, and schematics of each topology are shown.

Battery Powered Night Lamp

Ultra-low current drawing / 1.5V battery supply This circuit is usable as a Night Lamp when a wall mains socket is not available to plug-in an ever running small neon lamp device. In order to ensure minimum battery consumption, one 1.5V cell is used and simple voltage doublers drives a pulsating ultra-bright LED: current drawing is less than 500µA. An optional Photo resistor will switch-off the circuit in daylight or when room lamps illuminate, allowing further current economy. This device will run for about 3 months continuously on an ordinary AA sized cell or for around 6 months on an alkaline type cell but, adding the Photo resistor circuitry, running time will be doubled or, very likely, triplicates. IC1 generates a square wave at about 4 Hz frequencies. C2 & D2 form voltage doublers, necessary to raise the battery voltage to a peak value able to drive the LED. Circuit Diagram: Parts: R1 = 1M R2 = 1M R3 = 47K R4 = LDR C1 = 100nF - 63V C2 = 220uF - 25V D1 = Ultra Bright 10mm LE...

DC load powered by solar panel