New idea for the evolution of my MuPPeT (Maximum Power Point Tracking) solar charge controller.
By Julian
Youtuber, shed dweller, solar charge controller aficionado
Good morning all…
Youtuber, shed dweller, solar charge controller aficionado
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A little info for you in high frequency converter alway use higher frequency capacitor low esr for better current output and input because the frequency do reverse to the input voltage supply slowing down current peak so use low esr for input and output or the current won’t get pass 2 amp even because of higher frequency ripple effects stopping the current from slowing down to storage for the low to keep the voltage and current in phase
What does the "e" stand for in MuPPeT??
Cool concept! Did this project move forward, is in standby or just dead?
Do you think this could work with a alternator or pma? Or possible use to control the field, insted if the inductor, and charge a lithium battery?
Interesting stuff! When I saw you starting to talk about the body diodes, I was hoping that you weren't planning to use them, and am glad that turned out to be the case. I've also heard that it's not good for the MOSFETs. Take that four-MOSFET circuit you ended up with, and consider the inductor going across the middle of it to be one of the coils in a stepper motor, so you'd need two of those circuits, 8 MOSFETs in total. I've seen that somewhere but can't remember where, and I'm not sure how you would go about driving the gates…
year later lol now add 555 timer to it lol
I bet a Teensy would work well for that, you even have DAC outputs (I think) which could do something cool.
It's great that you want to realize all that functionality with it
all I see is a hyper-efficient battery cell balancing circuit.
Shouldn't schottky be at the gate? Adjust there to prevent saturation and operate switching in diode state only for super efficiency
With the right choice of parts you could even use this to convert rectified mains directly into DC. Or if you add some kind of polarity switch to the output you could also make a sine wave inverter.