The purpose of this project is to design a highly efficient solar charger. The system will track and operate at the maximum power of a solar panel meant to charge the battery of an iPod MP3 player. A DC to DC converter is used to boost the voltage produced by the solar panel to a higher voltage needed to charge the battery. A control syslem was designed to insure optimum operation near the point of maximum power transfer. A reasonable agreement between the simulation and the experimental was observed.

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Creator

• Sbat, Antoin
• Le, Nhan T.

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 07A006M

Advisor

• Emanuel, Alexander E.

Year

• 2007

Date created

• 2007-01-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Electrical & Computer Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright