hi!
Iam working in a project thats rellies in a 18650 battery, which is charged by a MCP73831 .
Now I need to power the MCP charger with a solar panel, but I have came across the web several comments that claims that this IC is not suitable for solar panels.
I quite dont understand why is that. It may be related on the variation of current from the solar panel, and therefore the IC cant determine in which charging state is should be?
is there any workaround to this? some say to put specific buck boost converters designed to track the MPPT of tha panel (like the bq25504) . the problem is that I am from Argentina and that IC is not available .
thanks in advance!
Iam working in a project thats rellies in a 18650 battery, which is charged by a MCP73831 .
Now I need to power the MCP charger with a solar panel, but I have came across the web several comments that claims that this IC is not suitable for solar panels.
I quite dont understand why is that. It may be related on the variation of current from the solar panel, and therefore the IC cant determine in which charging state is should be?
is there any workaround to this? some say to put specific buck boost converters designed to track the MPPT of tha panel (like the bq25504) . the problem is that I am from Argentina and that IC is not available .
thanks in advance!