LEAD ACID BATTERY

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CHARGER
INTRODUCTION
OBJECTIVES
Lead Acid Batteries are one of the oldest rechargeable
The main objective here is to accomplish rapid charging in batteries available today. Due to their low cost (for the
lead acid batteries without causing any harm to its cells. capacity) compared to newer battery technologies and the
Normally, at 25 degrees Celsius atmospheric temperatures , ability to provide high surge currents (an important factor
a lead acid battery is supposed to be charged at C/10 rate in automobiles), Lead Acid Batteries are still the preferred
which would take at least 12 to 14 hours for the battery to choice of batteries in almost all vehicles.
get fully charged. Here C = Ah value of the battery. The main concern with any battery is it discharges over
The objective of the concept presented here is to make this time and must be recharged so that it can provide the
process 50% quicker and enable the charging to finish necessary voltage and current.
within 8 hours. Different batteries have different strategies of charging
and in this project, I will show you how to recharge a lead
acid battery using a simple Lead Acid Battery Charger
Circuit.
WORKING
To charge a battery from AC we need a step-
down transformer, a rectifier, filtering circuit,
regulator to maintain the constant voltage. CIRCUIT DIAGRAM
Then we can give the regulated voltage to
the battery to charge it. Think if you have
only DC voltage and charge the lead acid
battery, we can do it by giving that DC
voltage to a DC-DC voltage regulator and
some extra circuitry before giving to the lead
acid battery. Car battery is also a lead acid
battery. DC voltage is given to the DC
voltage regulator. The voltage regulator used
here is LM317T, adjustable voltage range
from 1.25 V to 37 V . The regulated DC out APPLICATION COMPONENTS
voltage is given to battery. There is also a • The main application of these
REQUIRED
trickle charge mode circuitry which will help chargers is to charge the Lead • IC LM317T
• CAPACITOR 1000µF
to reduce the current when the battery is Acid Batteries.
• CAPACITOR 0.22µF
• Battery charger is used in the
fully charged. following devices for the • CAPACITOR 0.22µF
purpose of recharging device • RESISTOR 0.5Ω 5W
batteries: • RESISTOR 100Ω
• It is used in inverter • RESISTOR 120Ω
• It is used in cellphone • RESISTOR 470Ω
• It is used in Solar energy • TRANSISTOR BC 548
system • POTENTIOMETER 1K
• It is used in vehicles • BATTERY 6V
• It is used in an uninterruptible • LEAD ACID BATTERY
power supply(UPS), etc.

REFERENCES PROJECT BY
• Lead Acid Battery Charger Circuit (circuitstoday.com) SHERAZ SULTAN FA20-BPH-085
• Lead Acid Battery Charger Circuit Diagram and Its Working (electronicshub.org) NOUMAN YOUSAF FA20-BPH-058