Document (8) Minor Project, Ananthu

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BATTERY LEVEL INDICATOR
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Introduction
In this project, I will show you how to design a simple Battery Level
Indicator Circuit using easily available components. Battery level
indicator indicates the status of the battery just by glowing LED’s.
For example six LED’s are glowing means battery capacity 60%
remains.
This article explains you how design battery level indicator. You can
use this circuit to check car battery or inverter. So by using this
circuit, we can increase the lifetime of battery.
Battery Level Indicator Circuit image
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This circuit is designed based on lM3914 IC (Integrated chip). This
IC is LED dot/bar display driver.
Battery Level Indicator Circuit Principle
The heart of this battery level indicator circuit is LM3914 IC. This IC
takes input analog voltage and drives 10 LED’s linearly according to
the input analog voltage. In this circuit, there is no need of resistors
in series with LEDs because the current is regulated by the IC.
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Battery Level Indicator Circuit Diagram
Circuit Components
LM3914 IC
LED’s -10 (Red – 3, Yellow – 4, Green – 3)
SPST Switch
Resistors – 18KΩ, 4.7KΩ, 56KΩ
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Potentiometer – 10KΩ
12V Battery (to test)
Connecting wires
Battery Charge Indicator Circuit Design
In this circuit LED’s (D1-D10) displays the capacity of the battery in

either dot mode or display mode. This mode is selected by the
external switch sw1 which is connected to 9th pin of IC. 6th and 7th
pins of IC are connected to the ground through a resistor. This
resistor controls the brightness of LED’s. Here resistor R3 and POT
RV1 forms potential divider circuit. Here pot RV1 is used for
calibration. There is no need of any external power supply to this
circuit.
The circuit is designed to monitor 10V to 15V DC. The circuit will
work even if the battery voltage is 3V. The operating voltage of this
IC is 3v to 25v DC. Lm3914 drives led’s, LCDs and vacuum
fluorescents. The IC contains adjustable reference and accurate 10-
steps divider. This IC can also acts as sequence
LM3914 Features
Internal voltage reference from 1.2 to 12v DC.
Programmable output current 2mA to 30mA.
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LED driver outputs are current regulated.
No multiplexing interaction between outputs.
It supports wide range of temperature from 0 to 70 degree Celsius.
For bar graph display – connect 9th pin of IC to the supply
For dot display – leave the 9th pin of IC
We can also connect different color led’s to indicate the status.

Connect D1 to D3 red LED’s which indicates shut down stage of your
battery and use D8-D10 green color LED’s which indicates 80 to 100
percentage of the battery and use yellow color for remaining
With a little modification we can use this circuit to measure other

voltage ranges also. For this remove the resistor R2 and connect
upper voltage level to the input. Now vary the resistance of Pot RV1
till the D10 LED glows. Now remove upper voltage level at the input
and connect lower voltage level. Connect a high value variable
resistor in the place of resistor R2 and vary it till the D1 LED glows.
Now disconnect the pot, measure the resistance across it and
connect resistor of same value in place of R2. Now the circuit is
ready to monitor other voltage ranges.
This circuit is most suitable for indicating 12V battery level. In this
circuit each led indicates 10 percent battery level. We can extend
this circuit to 100 steps by cascading lm3914 IC’s.
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How to Operate Battery Level Indicator Circuit?
Connect battery to be tested to the input of the circuit.
Now adjust the pot RV1 so that LED D1 just starts glowing.
Now increase the input Dc voltage slowly and observe the LED’s
First led will glow for 1.2V and second LED is for 2.4 V and so on.
Below table shows the status of LED’s with input voltage level.
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Battery Charge Level Indicator Circuit Applications
We can use this circuit to measure car battery level.
This circuit is used to calibrate inverter status.
Limitations of the Circuit
This battery level indicator works only for small voltages.

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MINOR PROJECT

BATTERY LEVEL INDICATOR

Battery Level Indicator Circuit image

Battery Level Indicator Circuit Principle

LED’s -10 (Red – 3, Yellow – 4, Green – 3)

Resistors – 18KΩ, 4.7KΩ, 56KΩ

12V Battery (to test)

Battery Charge Indicator Circuit Design

In this circuit LED’s (D1-D10) displays the capacity of the battery in

Internal voltage reference from 1.2 to 12v DC.

Programmable output current 2mA to 30mA.

No multiplexing interaction between outputs.

It supports wide range of temperature from 0 to 70 degree Celsius.

For bar graph display – connect 9th pin of IC to the supply

For dot display – leave the 9th pin of IC

We can also connect different color led’s to indicate the status.

With a little modification we can use this circuit to measure other

Connect battery to be tested to the input of the circuit.

We can use this circuit to measure car battery level.

This circuit is used to calibrate inverter status.

Limitations of the Circuit

This battery level indicator works only for small voltages.

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