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Wireless phone charger

Just for fun I thought I would make a wireless phone charger. I'm not reall y going to use it but I wanted to build it and just see if it actually work ed. The circuit uses two coils and a 2n222 transistor very simple.

Well I can't really get it to work maybe I could get half a volt maybe to p ast through induction. Then it seems to stop. I connected my meter to the r eceiving coil to test.

I was using 30 gauge wire which I had although the circuit calls for 32 ga uge that may be part of the issue.

However my question is , as I began to think about it and a little bit of science that I know is that induction I thought had to be AC current becaus e there had to be movement caused by ac going up and down. The circuit as f ar as my reading however puts in 5 volts DC in the Base unit and passes it to the receiving coil. I'm not sure if that's going to work?

The question then is, in a simple circuit can you use DC in induction.

Thanks

Reply to
Steve Wolf
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No, you can't use DC here. In fact you should not have any DC on the coil... If you put DC in it you would get an electromagnet (or a lot of smoke). What frequency are you driving your coil at? How many windings does the each coil have?

QI chargers usually work at between 100 and 200 kHz for low power and ~500kHz for medium power.

Cheers, Nife

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Nife Sima

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Here is the utube video.

I have looked for for diagram but can't find one.

Perhaps I misunderstand the ac adapter he is using but it looks like an ac/DC adapter.

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Steve Wolf

PS base is 15 x 15 and recever is 20

Reply to
Steve Wolf

please no..

It's VERY sketchy and the way they did that I'm not sure how long will the protection diodes in the phone hang on. Having said that, the transistor with two coils forms a flyback transformer running at some unspecified frequency. So that takes DC and generates AC. Again, the video implementation is super shady. More on flybacks here

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As for the phone killing aspect, DO NOT connect the USB directly like they did.. USB is DC voltage. the coils give AC voltage! Your phone is NOT gonna be happy being slammed -5 volts repeatedly where it expects +5. I'd put that video in the same category as coca cola can DIY crap. They even use hot glue as well!

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Nife Sima

Thanks for your comments.

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Steve Wolf

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