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Solar Charger For Lead-Acid Batteries
Solar Charger For Lead-Acid Batteries
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Note that the charging current is limited only by the solar panel used.
Note the funny place of grounding of the first 2 comparators. There's some weirdness here: this bit of the circuit gives me
headaches. Two problems:
If I ground the first two comparators (LM393) in the same place as the third, i.e. not between the FETs, the thing won't work
and the battery will discharge over the solar panel. Why? Am I playing to close to the rails? How can this be
remedied/improved/redesigned? Do I need a diode between the comparator's imputs?
If I use micropower comparators like the Texas Instruments TLC393, the comparators blow up spectacularly, but with the
standard LM393 everything works fine. Why? What did I miss?
Help would be greatly appreciated!
Next attempt
This one works fine and uses about 0.5mA, but that might improve because I'm not done tweeking yet:
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