4 Cellphone chargers into 1?

nyjumpee

Aug 22, 2006
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I have 2 cell phone chargers and 2 bluetooth headset chargers that I'd like to try and consolidate into 1 charger with 4 outputs.

The good thing is all of the jacks are USB!

 

mvs sarma

Feb 12, 2006
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good nyjumpee,

it calls for 2.6 amps if all the items are to be charged same time

you will perhaps have problem once the sigle proposed charges goes faulty--- redundancy would be better
you may try to develop a psu with 5.0 output and a current capacity of atleast 3 amps -- may be LM317 with a  pass transistor for current boost. Set it for 5V and locally rig up a multiway usb sockets and wire them with only +5 and return wirs at the appropriate pins-- logically it should work-- how ever i agian suggest , think interms of redundancy

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ZomBiE

Mar 14, 2004
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Li-ion chargers might not like parallel power, them dent to "sniff" input voltage to vary PWM cycles for proper regulation. And when theres a few PWM regulators, it may cause too much noise that will mixup error amplifiers of such chargers to undetermined state. ie. charger doesn't work like it should be.

 

mvs sarma

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these li-on chargers will have their own control circurty with input voltage being common, say at 5.1v dc,
however if it isdesirable  to have isolation you may have adiode in +ve lead of each output with a electrolytic filter cap of suitable value.


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