Full Charge Ahead

December 30, 2020 By Chris Gammell

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