SOLAR ENERGY HARVESTING

Block diagram of Solar Energy Harvesting - I:

Description:
Block diagrams above gives us the broad picture of how the CBC915 based Solar Energy Harvesting system works. Before understanding the operation of above system, it is important to know the operation of CBC915 EVAL-09 System. Initially Low Voltage Charge Pump drives the system, and initializes CBC915. All the I/O pins of CBC915 are set to their default voltage levels, & CBC915 starts of the efficiently Boost converter by switching OFF Low Voltage Charge Pump. It charges the thin film battery. Once the thin film battery reaches its rated voltage level CBC915 enables EN VOUT thereby connecting both Load and Battery charging circuit to charge the battery. When thin film battery is not charged to its rated voltage, CBC915 disconnects load and battery charging circuit from thin film battery. During this period load is powered by Li-Polymer battery. CBC915 disconnects load and battery charging circuit when the voltage on the thin film battery reaches below 2.7V .

Block diagram of Solar Energy Harvesting - II:

Description:
Block diagrams above gives us the broad picture of how the bq25504 based Solar Energy Harvesting system works. Before understanding the operation of above system, it is important to know the functionality and features of BQ25504. Bat_Ok terminal goes Low when Thin film battery is charged to its full rated voltage and safer to use. When this pin goes low, then PMOS is turned ON and NMOS turned OFF, there by connecting load and battery charging circuit across Thin film battery. When battery discharged to 2.7V then Bat_Ok terminal goes high, there by turning OFF PMOS & turning ON NMOS. Thus load & battery charging circuit is disconnected from Thin film battery. Now load is connected across Li-Polymer battery.