PORTABLE CHARGER

COMPONENTS

VALUE

QUANTITY
1

LED

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(iii)

Voltage Regulator

7805

(iv)

Female USB
Connector

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(v)

Battery

9V

(vi)

9V Connector

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(vii)

Resistors

350 ohm

33K ohm

22K ohm

22uF

10nF

(i)
(ii)

(viii)

COMPONENT
Toggle Switch

Capacitors

(ix)

Solder

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(x)

Soldering Iron

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(xi)

Zero PCB

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CIRCUIT DIAGRAM

Fig. Circuit Of A Portable Mobile Charger

STEPS FOR MAKING THE CIRCUIT:

Solder the red (positive) wire from the battery connector to
one pin of the switch and from the other pin to the PCB.
Solder the black (negative) wire from the battery connector to
the PCB also. So now you can have a positive and a negative
side.
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 Attach wires to your LED long enough to put it where you want
it. Solder the positive LED lead to the board with the positive
wire.
The LED negative side has a small flat spot on the side of the
plastic. Attach that wire to the 350 ohm resister.
Then the other side of the resistor to the negative side of the
board.
Place the 22uF Cap in the board. The side with the line on it is
the negative side and goes to the negative wire. The other is
positive and attaches to that wire
Now the 7805. At the front of the chip, the left pin is attached
to the positive wire in your board (which is from the 9v
battery), the middle pin is ground and is attached to the black
(negative) wire, and the right pin is 5v out which will be the
positive source for the rest of the circuit.
Then add the little 10nF cap to the negative (ground) and the
positive 5v.
Now comes the voltage divider. You need 2 33K resistors
connected to the positive 5v and each of those are connected
to a 22K resister which is then connected to ground (negative,
black).
Now the Female USB. If you get one with wires still on it will
be a little easier. If not just attach your own wires. The red
wire needs 5v and the black needs to go to ground. The green
and white wires each need 2v and are attached between the
33K and 22K resistors.
Plug in the battery, the device, and turn it on.

WORKING:
All USB plugs run at 5v so need a way to make a portable 5v
charging device. There are a few ways to do this. The way we are
going to do it is to use a 9v battery and reduce its voltage to 5v
with a 7805 voltage regulator. First, the switch is placed first near
the battery to ensure it's not running when not ON. Then the LED
(an indicator) and resistor before the regulator, but on either side of
the regulator, a capacitor is placed to smooth out the current a bit.

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For most USB charged devices this would be enough. Just attach
the red and black wires from the USB and it should work, but Apple
Devices have a feature that tries to stop people like us from making
our own charger or using most other non-Apple chargers. The
iPhone or iPod Touch needs to "see" a 2V charge in each of the two
USB data lines as a must. This is why you need the extra resistors
to make a voltage divider to make the 2V because 22K / (22K+
33K) * 5.0V = 2.0V. This circuit uses the 22K and 33K values but
you can also use two 50K and two 75K or two 100K and two 150K
to also reach 2V.

For i-Devices the charger will work until the 9v battery gets down to
around 6v or 5v. Then you will get a message saying "Your iPhone
does not recognize this charger." You may not get a whole charge
out of a battery, so it is great to keep for emergencies. This charger
can charge much more than devices. It can also be used with other
MP3 players, cell phones, cameras, and video cameras.

APPLICATIONS:

This Portable Charger, as we may call it, has its applications in

limiting the use of electricity in our household devices. This charger
allows us to charge our electronic devices and small appliances that
use 5V as their source voltage in those areas where it is difficult for
us to use electricity, like while travelling. This charger is small in size
and light in weight, thus easy to carry, and uses cheap components,
thus is economic. Hence, it eliminates the major problem of
charging devices while travelling or power cuts, proving to be a
user-friendly device.

FUTURE USE:

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This project eliminates the use of electricity from the wires, hence
eliminating the need of wiring in a circuit. The future work of this
projects holds on to the thought of removing the use of excess and
unnecessary wires in the circuit. It also provides the idea that
devices can be charged and operated from distance cutting the use
manually and wires. Thus, by shortening the circuit, we could even
create a charger that works from a distance further reducing the
size of the charger.

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