Electronic Design's Ideas for Design (IFD) articles are short and simple but they cover topics that developers can take advantage of like battery chargers. I cover the Digital and Embedded technology ...

“Build A Smart Battery Charger Using A Single-Transistor Circuit,” generated lots of traffic since it was first published in 2002 but it has a serious flaw. The main problem with the circuit is that ...

This is a simple circuit diagram of 9V battery charger circuit using SCR and LM311. This is a simple circuit diagram of 9V battery charger circuit using SCR and LM311. The principle behind the circuit ...

That failure—in a nutshell, my design needed a buffer battery that had to be recharged, which defeated the whole purpose of ...

Trickle chargers and smart chargers with testing and maintenance capabilities serve the common purpose of charging batteries, but they differ in their functionality, efficiency, and features. So with ...

This circuit was devised to switch power to a Peltier cooler in a vehicle. Power to the load from the vehicle’s battery is switched by a SPDT relay while the ignition switch is turned on and from the ...

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