hamishcunningham / pi-tronics

Source code for Raspberry Pi GATE projects.
http://pi.gate.ac.uk/
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Battery Charger? #60

Closed jeberhardt closed 9 years ago

jeberhardt commented 9 years ago

Hello;

I'm looking at using some S2P5 battery packs, such as this one: http://www.batterysupports.com/72v-74v-10-18650-13ah-2s5p-lithium-ion-liion-battery-pack-p-88.html

I'm looking for a way of charging these batteries that would be somewhat integrated into the overall box that would contain the RPi, MoPi, USB peripherals, etc... I'd lover for it to act like this one, https://www.sparkfun.com/products/11231, but this one only goes up to 3.7 Volts. It would also be great if it could charge at a rate of higher than 100mA. Unfortunately, because the MoPi requires more than 6V, I need to use 2S battery packs.

Any ideas? Thanks!