Custom Lithium Charger?

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Dioxel

Custom Lithium Charger?

Post by Dioxel »

I plan on using two 3.6v 2400 mAh "AA" Rechargeable Lithium batteries to run my SNES motherboard and PSone screen.

Here's a link for the battery.
http://jameco.com/webapp/wcs/stores/ser ... tId=130909

The problem is that I can't find a charger for this style battery. So I was wondering if I could make my own using a battery holder and a Smart Charger. Or does anyone know where I can get a specifically made Lithium Battery Charger?


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And another thing. I know running a Series of batteries will increase the voltage. But does it affect the batteries' mAh at all? Will that increase too?

Thanks in advance for all help and suggestions...
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Post by JackFrost22 »

get a litium ion battery charger chip. I think www.maxum-ic.com has them.
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Post by Sparkfist »

God bless this forum.

I recently bought a li-ion batter off ebay and was conserned about how I would charge it, as I dont think it comes with one.

Thanks Jack.
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Post by SNESguy »

Be careful when mixing and matching lithium chargers, as those batteries will go off like a bomb when not charged correctly. :shock:
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Post by Sparkfist »

That just sucks. I bought a cheap (but new) replacement battery for DVD-l100/200 Samsugn and now i need to make/buy a charger. I think I'll just bite the bullet and buy the universal adapter I saw that mentions those models.

By the way I paid $1.25 for the battery its self and a total of ~$11.
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Post by gannon »

hmm... the charger IC I looked at on digikey could charge upto 1.5A/H at 4.7V, so I don't think it'd work on multiple cells (unless you switched the cell configuration to charge them)
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