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Full Charge Ahead

posted on December 30, 2020

This course was part of the “Roll with It” project heading. The Full Charge Ahead (FCA) section involved looking at the battery charging aspect and building a breakout board to test a linear battery charger.

Course Content

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Lessons Status
1

Introduction
  • Introduction to Full Charge Ahead!

2

Background and ideas
  • Participate – Finding The Charge Controller
  • Finding The Charge Controller – Part 1
  • Finding The Charge Controller – Part 2
  • Finding The Charge Controller – Part 3
  • Finding The Charge Controller – Part 4

3

Schematic creation
  • Outside Resources For Lithium Chemistry Batteries
  • Reading The Datasheet For “Gotchas”
  • Changing To The Timer Part
  • Creating the Schematic
  • ERC and Annotation
  • Part Association and USB footprint creation
  • Prettylib Workaround

4

PCB Layout
  • FCA Layout – Part 1
  • FCA Layout – Part 2
  • Killing Processes and Resetting Repos
  • FCA Layout – Part 3
  • DRC and Gerbers
  • Changing Thermistor Footprint and Ordering Boards
  • Via Stitching Inductance Explained

5

Manufacturing
  • Ordering Parts
  • Choosing a test battery
  • FCA Assembly Part 1
  • FCA Assembly Part 2
  • FCA Assembly Part 3
  • FCA Assembly Part 4

6

Testing
  • FCA Test Part 1
  • FCA Test Part 2
  • FCA Test Part 3
  • FCA Test Part 4
  • Revising Older Projects and Considering Fuel Gauges

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