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Portable Solar Powered Charging Station, Jordan Bonner
Portable Solar Powered Charging Station, Jordan Bonner
Electrical Engineering
The portable solar powered charging station uses a solar powered mat that can be folded for portability. The device has the ability to charge small electronics during both day and night. When sunlight is available, the charger charges two C batteries in series and at the same time it charges any electronic device that can be connected via USB or cigarette lighter. At night the charger will charge the same electronic devices from the onboard batteries. The charging station must be able to interface with electronic devices using USB and a car cigarette lighter to charge the device’s battery.
Cell Phone Charger For The Dc House Project, Andrew Hefner, Antonio Magdaleno
Cell Phone Charger For The Dc House Project, Andrew Hefner, Antonio Magdaleno
Electrical Engineering
The goal of this project is to create a multiple output cell phone charger for the DC House project. The cell phone charger is essentially a DC-DC converter. The converter takes an input of 48 volts from the outlet in the DC House and decreases the voltage level to 5 volts; the input voltage level of all cellular devices. By designing an isolated flyback converter with initial specification in LTSpice simulation software, a converter was created. By monitoring the input and output voltage and current using the multi-meters and electronic load, we determined the charger to be 71% efficient when …