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We need 2 wireless chargers, 50mA and 150 mA.

Category: Hardware
Product Number: LTC4125, DC2773A and Dc2554A

We have designed a receiver circuit based on the coil and rectifier circuit in the DC2554A-B kit. We do not need a direct battery charger circuit as that is already in our equipment, so are looking for the receiver to supply 6V (dc) at 50 or 150 mA.  The transmitter circuit in the kit does nto perform well at these loads. We have since discovered the DC2773A kit and have downloaded articles on this. It appears we may have to use a fixed power output?  We can use the values from the DC2773A kit for our 50mA requirement, have you got any recommended values for a 150mA version. This is a LT spice model of our receiver circuit, we use LT3470 regulator driven from the transmitted power, it was my original idea to use the output of the 3470 as a switch to control the "presence" detector, however the DC2555 transmitter circuit does not work reliably with this set up....I also tried with the 33V zener and a 20V presence zener as shown in other of your circuits, without success.

Any clues?

Thanks

Clive  Brooks

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  • Hi Clive, 

    I think the presence detect circuit might not be needed and it is not recommended in this case. 

    The presence detect circuit is used to help LTC4125 trigger exit condition when the Rx charger reaches output current regulation target. The LTC4125 in this setup is working with optimum power search feature, which allows LTC4125 to "scan" the receiver every few seconds to look for a proper power output. Please see this video showing the optimum power search operation. 

    https://www.analog.com/en/education/education-library/videos/5579265679001.html

    In your case, you need a solid 6V on the Rx side, and sudden voltage droop is probably not allowed. In optimum power search, the transmit power will reduce to almost 0 every few seconds, and the Rx voltage will drop, if the load current is kept at a constant current. 

    As a result, I think using this push-pull type transmitter, or using LTC4125 in fixed duty cycle operation (the operation setup in the LTC4125+LTC4124 50mA setup is recommended. 

    Thanks,

    Wenwei