The Universal Multipurpose Battery Charger

Normally, those battery chargers that available on the market are usually only for a certain type of battery. It’s quite hard to find an universal multipurpose battery charger that can charge all types of batteries! Instead of looking for it all over the place, isn’t it better to develop yourself a multi-chemistry battery charger? For your information, this unique universal multipurpose battery charger has two channels. It can charge two different types of batteries at once up to two amps each. This battery charger able to charge the following types of batteries: Nicad batteries; NiMH batteries; LiIon batteries; Sealed lead acid batteries, and Rechargeable alkaline batteries. The project is based on an ATMega32 microcontroller running at 16MHz, which is functioning as the main brain. The 2×16 LCD display with a 5 key keypad give the user an option to set all necessary parameters, and displays charging/discharging values when it’s completed. In order to gain more functions into the battery charger, a fixed voltage, current limited output, a fixed current, voltage limited output and a variable PWM output are provided as… Continue reading