Solar Power Battery Charger Project - PDF

							Solar Power Battery
  Charger Project




               Submitted To: Mines Action Canada
                                By: Mike Botting
                              Ann-Marie Dawson
                                Giuseppe Agnello
                                    Dave McPhee
                         From: Carleton University
                                                            Advisor: John Knight
                                                         Due Date: May 1st, 2000
Table of Contents



Abstract                                                          1



1.0    Introduction                                               3

2.0    Project Specifications                                     9

3.0    Battery Selection                                         10

4.0    Solar Modules                                             24

5.0    Charger Using MAXIM 713 Integrated Circuit                29

6.0    Charger Using Programmable Interrupt Controller           33

7.0    Discussion                                                54

8.0    Conclusions                                               56

9.0    Acknowledgments                                           58

10.0   References                                                59

Appendix A                                                       60

Appendix B                                                       78