This charge-pump circuit, using just a few diodes and capacitors, ups the input voltage by a factor of 1.5 in contrast to the usual voltage-doubling output. Micropower product designs sometimes ...
2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the Greinacher voltage multiplier, invented by Swiss physicist Heinrich Greinacher in 1919. In 1932, Douglas Cockcroft and Ernest Walton used this basic circuit to ...
Solar-powered systems typically require the system to operate from a very wide input voltage range due to the large variations in a solar panel’s output voltage. This range limits the ability to ...
This depends also on what type of battery this is, cell size, NiMH or NiCd, fast chargeable or not.<BR><BR>My first thought was "NiMH sub-C race-pack" but that might be wrong, of course.<BR><BR>For ...