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The SparkFun Adjustable LiPo Charger is a single-cell lithium polymer (LiPo) and lithium ion battery charger. Because it's adjustable, this charger will be able to safely charge all of our single-cell batteries.
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PRT-14380
The SparkFun Adjustable LiPo Charger is a single-cell lithium polymer (LiPo) and lithium ion battery charger. Because it’s …
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Required Materials
The Adjustable LiPo Charger parts required depends on your input power supply for charging and the size of the LiPo battery used. At the bare minimum, all that's needed to charge a LiPo battery sufficiently is a micro-B USB cable to connect to either a computer USB port or a wall adapter. We also have 5V wall adapters with a USB cable attached.
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CAB-10215
USB 2.0 type A to Micro-B 5-pin. This is a new, smaller connector for USB devices. Micro-B connectors are about half the heig…
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TOL-13831
This is a high-quality switching 'wall wart' AC to DC 5.1V 2,500mA USB Micro-B wall power supply manufactured specifically fo…
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TOL-11456
USB is being implemented as a power connection standard more and more these days, but you don't always have a computer on han…
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TOL-12890
This is a high quality switching 'wall wart' AC to DC 5V 2000mA USB Micro-B wall power supply manufactured specifically for S…
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And one of the LiPo batteries with nominal 3.7V from our catalog:
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PRT-13851
This is a very small, extremely lightweight battery based on Lithium Ion chemistry, with the highest energy density currently…
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PRT-13854
These are very slim, extremely light weight batteries based on Lithium Ion chemistry. Each cell outputs a nominal 3.7V at 850…
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PRT-13853
This is a very small, extremely light weight battery based on Lithium Ion chemistry. This is the highest energy density curre…
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PRT-10319
A really cool rechargeable Lithium Ion coin cell battery. The battery is rated for 3.6V @ 110mAh - a great way to run a small…
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PRT-13813
Slim, extremely light weight batteries based on Lithium Ion chemistry. Each cell outputs a nominal 3.7V at 1000 mAh!
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For batteries smaller than 100mAh (i.e. 40mAh LiPo), you may also need to solder an assortment of resistors to set a custom charge rate.
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COM-10969
Resistors are a good thing, in fact, they're actually crucial in a lot of circuit designs. The only problem seems to be that …
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PRT-13852
This is an extremely tiny and light weight battery based on the new Polymer Lithium Ion chemistry.
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Suggested Reading
If you aren't familiar with the following concepts, we recommend checking out these tutorials before continuing.
Battery Technologies
The basics behind the batteries used in portable electronic devices: LiPo, NiMH, coin cells, and alkaline.
Electric Power
An overview of electric power, the rate of energy transfer. We'll talk definition of power, watts, equations, and power ratings. 1.21 gigawatts of tutorial fun!
What is a Battery?
An overview of the inner workings of a battery and how it was invented.
