The gist: twenty-three students from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands banded together to become team STORM Eindhoven.
Their mission: spread the importance of sustainable energy by designing and building the world’s first electric…
Other Parts Discussed in Post: BQ25890 , BQ25898 With portable products packed with new features and an embedded lithium-ion battery inside, one key design consideration is how to optimize the end-user experience with fast and cool charging. Most higher…
Other Parts Discussed in Post: BQ34110 Battery packs are used in the products that we depend on daily. Many of our portable devices such as our cell phones, our watches and our tablet computers are constantly at our sides and running on batteries. Consequently…
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A battery gauge is essential in most modern systems to help determine how much power a given system can draw from the battery pack. Whether batteries are the system’s primary or backup power source,…
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bq77905 3S to 5S Advanced Stackable Low Power Battery Protector EVM
When it comes to any type of protection, the solution should be simple. Protection should be something that you design and set up once and don’t…
Other Parts Discussed in Post: BQ24250 How many times have you been working on an MSP430™ microcontroller (MCU) project when your AC wall adapter cord gets in your way or your last 9-volt battery runs dry and you have to run to the store to keep working…
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Battery gas gauges using Impedance Track TM technology use a blend of coulomb counting and voltage based algorithms to provide the most accurate state of charge indication for a wide variety of secondary batteries…
Imagine for a second how useful (or useless) your car would be without a gas gauge. Not very appealing, is it? The same principle applies to battery-powered systems. Including a gas gauge in a battery-powered system provides accurate capacity information…
Other Parts Discussed in Post: BQ24295 , BQ25895 Power banks are popular personal accessories for portable electronics like smartphones or tablets, whose stylishly thin profiles mean limited battery capacities. A power bank is a portable secondary battery…
Stubborn vacuum cords, and giant thick AC power plugs for your drill, can be a mess, and can sometimes be hazardous. Enjoying cordless power tools and garden tools used to be an expensive dream, but as Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries become more and more…