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Cell Phone Charger

The Goal

The goal of this project is to design and fabricate a mobile cellphone charger using a voltage source ranging from 6 volts dc to 24 volts dc.  It will be able to operate using a 9 volt battery, a 12 or 24 volt car battery and a pack of 8 AA batteries as a power source.

 Step one -- find the constraint

  • Operate using a 6vcd to 24vdc input

  • ability to charge iphone, android, and samsung phones

  • charge faster than a normal wall charger 

  • charge the phones safely  

 Step two -- do the math

    I phones require a voltage to the data pins in order to charge.  The data-pin voltage needs  about 2vdc  input  and the data+pin needs about 2.5vdc input to charge at 1.5 amps.  A voltage divider circuit can be used to meet this sort of requirement.  A voltage divider circuit uses a higher input voltage which produces a lower output voltage.  The circuit diagram below is an example of a voltage divider

The equation for this is

vout = vin*R2/ (R1+R2)

 

Here is what it look like for me

2.0=5*220/(330+220)

2.5=5*100/(100+100)

 

Which means I needed one 330Ω resistor, one 220Ω resistor, and two 100Ω resistor 

 Step three -- design a prototype and bill of materials

  • x1    7805 voltage regulator 

  • x1    330Ω resistor

  • x1    220Ω resistor

  • x2    100Ω resistor (can be any resistance as long as they are the same)

  • x1    10 uf capacitor

  • x1    smd usb type a female 

  • x1    pcb  switch 3 pin 

  • x1    9 volt battery connector 

  • x1    custom made circuit board  

 

            Prototype Design

 Step four --design the circuit board        

         When designing a circuit board make sure that none of the traces(wires) are too close to each other or overlapping each other.  In this prototype design, if you look carefully, you can see that the 5 volt trace intersects the ground trace.  

 Step four retry --- design the circuit board   

     The prototype error was corrected

Final  Circuit Board Design

 step five

Here is a final product in a 3D printed case 

By Palmer Tetley

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