Project Information 
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  Project Overview

    Team Solar Flares is to design and construct a battery charger for laptop computers implementing a solar module to convert captured light energy into electrical energy. Currently our research of this problem leads us toward a solar module that uses thin-film technology because these light-capturing device are very lightweight, flexible due to a unique overlaying of plastic, and most important of all, its gives us desired calculated electrical outputs. Since the output of this subsystem will be flowing into a circuit for proper charging and the end result will be replacing energy into the laptop computer battery. The concept of our battery charger will be to correctively charge two different battery chemistries which are: Nickel Metal Hydride, and Nickel Cadmium. Obviously all three batteries have different chemistries which make our battery charger circuit much more sophisticated and unique. This characteristic of the charger makes it an excellent benefit to our client as well as making it a compact, lightweight, and an isolated design.