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    Altoids USB Battery Tutorial: by Jonathan Shan

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    This document provides instructions for making a portable USB battery using an Altoids tin. The key components are 6 AAA rechargeable batteries, 3 battery holders, a voltage regulator, USB connector, on/off switch, and wire. The 6 batteries together provide 7.2 volts which is stepped down to the required 5 volts by the regulator. Proper wiring connects the battery pack to the regulator and USB port. Various Altoids tin configurations are shown using different battery types and arrangements.

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    Altoids USB Battery Tutorial: by Jonathan Shan

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    This document provides instructions for making a portable USB battery using an Altoids tin. The key components are 6 AAA rechargeable batteries, 3 battery holders, a voltage regulator, USB connector, on/off switch, and wire. The 6 batteries together provide 7.2 volts which is stepped down to the required 5 volts by the regulator. Proper wiring connects the battery pack to the regulator and USB port. Various Altoids tin configurations are shown using different battery types and arrangements.

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    This document provides instructions for making a portable USB battery using an Altoids tin. The key components are 6 AAA rechargeable batteries, 3 battery holders, a voltage regulator, USB connector, on/off switch, and wire. The 6 batteries together provide 7.2 volts which is stepped down to the required 5 volts by the regulator. Proper wiring connects the battery pack to the regulator and USB port. Various Altoids tin configurations are shown using different battery types and arrangements.

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    Altoids USB Battery Tutorial: by Jonathan Shan

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    Syahrum Mubarak
    This document provides instructions for making a portable USB battery using an Altoids tin. The key components are 6 AAA rechargeable batteries, 3 battery holders, a voltage regulator, USB connector, on/off switch, and wire. The 6 batteries together provide 7.2 volts which is stepped down to the required 5 volts by the regulator. Proper wiring connects the battery pack to the regulator and USB port. Various Altoids tin configurations are shown using different battery types and arrangements.

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    Altoids USB Battery Tutorial

    By Jonathan Shan
    Parts
    (found at Fry’s and Radio Shack)

    • Altoids Tin (cinnamon looks the best)………....…~$2


    • Batteries (6 AAA Rechargeable)……………….....~$15
    • Battery holders (AAA 3 pairs)…………………….~$.70 (x3)
    • 1Voltage Regulator (5 volts)……………………....~$4
    • USB female connector……………………………~$5
    • One on/off switch (small).........................................~$2
    • 1 ft of regular wire....................................................scavenge
    Tools
    • Dremel (drilling/cutting tool)
    • Soldering Iron + Solder
    • Glue Gun
    • Wire stripper
    How it works
    • 6 batteries, each carrying 1.2 volts, are linked together to make 7.2
    volts worth of current (6 x 1.2)
    • A voltage regulator lowers it back to 5 volts for outputting through the
    USB connector to charge ipods and cell phones.
    • The reason a voltage regulator is needed (instead of just using 4
    batteries and jumping to 4.8 volts (works too) is the lack of efficiency
    in that model. Each battery supplies 700-900 milliamp (mAh) of
    power. The more mAh of power, the longer the battery lasts.
    • Batteries “die” when the voltage is too low for the device to function.
    By inputting higher voltage into the regulator, you decrease the rapid
    ascent in voltage that you find by using resistors and diodes.
    Configurations

    Original Altoids tin Original Altoids tin


    (6 AAA Batteries) (Two 9V Batteries)

    Altoids Sour Chewing Gum


    (either 2 AA Batts or 1 9V Batt)

    Altoids Sours
    Configurations
    AAA Batteries
    Note: There should be a circuit breaker
    AKA switch to keep the batteries from
    being drained by the voltage regulator.

    Voltage Regulator

    USB Output

    AA Batteries
    The Other stuff
    • just grab an lm7805 from your local store and
    wire it up.  connect the positive battery
    terminal to the 7805 input pin, the positive
    usb pin to the 7805 output pin, and connect
    the negative battery terminal and the usb
    ground pin to the 7805 ground pin.
    • which is which?  if you hold the 7805 with
    the text facing you and the pins downward,
    the pins from left to right are: input, ground,
    output.  it looks like this:
    •
    • for the female usb connector, look down
    into the end of the connector so that it is
    oriented like so:
    • pin 1 is the positive (5v) terminal (which
    goes to the output of the 7805) and pin 4 is
    ground (which goes to the 7805 ground pin).
    Three Battery Holders and 6 AAA Batteries

    Output:
    7.2 Volts
    (1.2v x6)

    Negative

    Positive

    Both lead to the voltage regulator.


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