A practical switchmode lead acid battery charger circuit has been presented which incorporates all of the features necessary to assure long battery life with rapid charging capability. By utilizing special function ICs, component count is minimized, reducing system cost and complexity.
The circuit diagram of the Lead Acid Battery Charger is given below. 7815 The 7815 is a part of the 78XX series of linear voltage regulators. You might have used 7805 and 7812 which produce a regulated voltage of 5V and 12V respectively. Similarly, the 7815 Voltage regulator produces a constant regulated voltage of 15V.
Then we can give the regulated voltage to the battery to charge it. Think if you have only DC voltage and charge the lead acid battery, we can do it by giving that DC voltage to a DC-DC voltage regulator and some extra circuitry before giving to the lead acid battery. Car battery is also a lead acid battery.
The 5 useful and high power lead acid battery charger circuits presented below can be used for charging large high current lead acid batteries in the order of 100 to 500 Ah, the design is perfectly automatic and switches of the power to the battery and also itself, once the battery gets fully charged.
Lead Acid Battery Lead Acid Battery is a rechargeable battery developed in 1859 by Gaston Plante. The main advantages of Lead battery is it will dissipate very little energy (if energy dissipation is less it can work for long time with high efficiency), it can deliver high surge currents and available at a very low cost.
The voltage regulator used here is 7815, which is a 15V regulator. The regulated DC out voltage is given to battery. There is also a trickle charge mode circuitry which will help to reduce the current when the battery is fully charged. The circuit diagram of the Lead Acid Battery Charger is given below. 7815