I am building a charging circuit for a 1 F capacitor and I would like for an LED to light up when the cap is all charged. Any suggestions to doing this?
That would light the led when it's charged, but you probably want a more elaborate and safer circuit that would to kill the supply to the cap?
If one of those babies explodes, I'd imagine you'd have a very bad day.
I am building a charging circuit for a 1 F capacitor and I would like for an LED to light up when the cap is all charged. Any suggestions to doing this?
Here is a start. It was a battery charger. You will need to adjust thongs for voltages you want. U1 and Q1 makes a power source to charge the capacitor. R1 and R2 set the voltage to charge it. U2 monitors the voltage on the cap. When it reaches a certain voltage (set by R3 and R4) it triggers the latch that kills U1. Hitting the Start button starts charging it ll over again.
What voltage did you need VCC to be. What voltage to charge the capacitor at. what voltage to stop.
We reverse engineered a circuit designed to allow the charging of supercaps up to a certain voltage. There was also a board shown which turned on a LED when the cap was charged. It seems much simpler than the circuit given in this thread. If you can find an image of the board, you may be able to reverse engineer how they did it.
We reverse engineered a circuit designed to allow the charging of supercaps up to a certain voltage. There was also a board shown which turned on a LED when the cap was charged. It seems much simpler than the circuit given in this thread. If you can find an image of the board, you may be able to reverse engineer how they did it.