Epishine signs distribution agreement with Farnell to enable light energy harvesting within electronic design
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Epishine’s new-to-market printed organic solar cells and development kits remove the need for batteries reducing the impact on the environment. The innovative Swedish manufacturer of printed organic solar cells and development kits Epishine has signed a new franchise agreement with Farnell, an Avnet Company and global distributor of electronic components, products, and solutions. The new-to-market […]
R1810 Boost DC/DC Converter is an energy harvesting solution
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The R1810 Boost DC/DC Converter is an energy harvesting solution designed for powering low current consuming IoT devices by extracting energy from Photovoltaic cells. Target applications include wireless sensors, home and building automation, remote monitoring, presence detection, industrial equipment controls and more. Tailored specifically to replace the conventional batteries with power supplies operate with photovoltaic cells, […]
IRR1-SOL Solar Irradiance Meter helps troubleshooting of photovoltaic installations
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Fluke’s IRR1-SOL solar irradiance meter is designed to simplify the installation and troubleshooting of photovoltaic arrays in a single handheld tool Solar energy converts the sun’s energy into electricity; solar technology is improving with costs of going solar decreasing rapidly. Fluke’s IRR1-SOL solar irradiance meter provides industrial, residential and commercial installation and maintenance professionals with a single […]
E-PEAS Battery Chargers Target Wearable, Medical and Sensor Products
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Addressing the need for streamlined power management solutions for energy harvesting hardware, e-peas has unveiled a new family of battery charger devices. While the company’s existing power management ICs (PMICs) offer direct power delivery to the application, as well as the charging of energy storage elements (such as Li-Ion batteries or super-capacitors), the AEM10900, AEM10300 […]
Remote Solution Chooses Nowi as Partner to Develop Solar-powered Remote Controls
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Remote Solution is partnering with Nowi to develop eco-friendly, solar-powered TV remote controls. The objective of this collaboration is to bring sustainable solutions to market, using Remote Solution’s expertise in designing and manufacturing world-class remote controls and incorporating Nowi’s cost-effective and efficient energy harvesting Power Management IC (PMIC). Worldwide, about 15 billion batteries are tossed […]
E-PEAS New Buck-Boost ICs enables Highly Efficient Energy Harvesting from Solar & Vibrational Sources
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Expanding its portfolio of advanced power management ICs (PMICs) for energy harvesting applications, e-peas has announced two new devices capable of further pushing the performance envelope. The RF AEM30330, Vibration AEM30330 and solar AEM10330 PMICs both utilize a buck-boost architecture. This enables them to cover a greater range of input voltage levels (from 100mV right […]
Calculate Size of Solar Panel, Battery Bank and Inverter (MS Excel Spreadsheet)
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Design of solar panel/battery bank and inverter using this Excel Sheet. This MS Excel spreadsheet calculates the following: Total Demand Load Size of Solar Panel Select Type of Connection of Solar Panel Select Rating of Each Solar Panel Energy from Solar Panel as per Daily Sun lights Size Battery Bank Select Type of connection of […]
Energy harvesting PMIC available as samples
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Nowi BV (Delft, The Netherlands) has samples available of its NH2 energy harvesting power management IC (PMIC). The NH2D0245 comes in a QFN package measuring 3mm by 3mm. Including the external capacitor, it has an assembly footprint of just 3mm by 3.6mm. The NH2 is designed to extract the low power output of an energy […]
Buck-Boost Battery Charge Controller with MPPT and I2C
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The LT8491 from Analog Devices is a buck-boost switching regulator battery charge controller that implements a constant-current constant-voltage (CCCV) charging profile used for most battery types, including sealed lead-acid (SLA), flooded, gel and lithium-ion. Applications are expected to include solar powered battery chargers (see simplified schematic above), multiple types of lead-acid battery charging, Li-ion battery […]
MPPT charge controller reference design for 12- and 24-V solar panels
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This reference design is a Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) solar charge controller for 12-V and 24-V solar panels. This compact reference design targets small and medium power solar charger solutions and is capable of operating with 15- to 60-V solar panel modules, 12- or 24-V batteries and providing upwards of 20 A output current. […]