12V-SLA Lead Acid Battery Charger Using BQ24450

08/03/2018 RAJ SHARMA Leave a comment

The project has been developed to charge the SLA (Lead Acid Battery) . The project helps to charge 12V Lead acid battery up to 12Ah, specific current output possible altering the current sense Resistor. The BQ24450 chip contains all the necessary circuitry to optimally control the charging of valve-regulated lead-acid batteries. The IC controls the charging current as well as the charging voltage to safely and efficiently charge the battery, maximizing battery capacity and life. Depending on the application, the IC can be configured as a simple constant-voltage float charge controller or a dual-voltage float-cum-boost charge controller.

The built-in precision voltage reference is especially temperature-compensated to track the characteristics of lead-acid cells, and maintains optimum charging voltage over an extended temperature range without using any external components. The ICs low current consumption allows for accurate temperature monitoring by minimizing self-heating effects.

The IC can support a wide range of battery capacities and charging currents, limited only by the selection of the external pass transistor. The versatile driver for the external pass transistor supports both NPN and PNP types and provides at least 25mA of base drive.

In addition to the voltage- and current-regulating amplifiers, the IC features comparators that monitor the charging voltage and current. These comparators feed into an internal state machine that sequences the charge cycle. Some of these comparator outputs are made available as status signals at external pins of the IC. These status and control pins can be connected to a processor, or they can be connected up in flexible ways for standalone applications.

Input Supply 16V-20V DC
Charging Voltage 12V SLA(Lead Acid Battery),AGM
Lead Acid Battery 5-12Ah ( 500mA)

The circuit is to use dual Transistor for current up to 1A-15Amps, use proper transistor as per current requirement.

NOTE : This board has been designed for dual transistor, for load current up to 1Amp use single PNP transistor as such TIP32 TO220, Omit Q2 and use Q1, Transistor pins configuration as shown in bellow picture. Omit R5 and R6 is 0 Ohms.

6V Lead Acid SLA Battery Charger Circuit Using BQ24450

The bq24450 board assists users in evaluating the BQ24450 linear battery charger IC. The User’s guide the bq24450 bill of materials, schematic. The bq24450 contains all the necessary circuitry to optimally control the charging of lead-acid batteries. The IC controls the charging current as well as the charging voltage to safely and efficiently charge the battery, maximizing battery capacity and life. Depending on the application, the IC can be configured as a simple constant-voltage float charge controller or a dual-voltage float-cum-boost charge controller. This 6V Lead Acid Charger circuit from www.ti.com EVM manual