It Goes Both Ways! Lithium Battery Charge-Boost Kit
Make your own power bank out of any (1000 mAh or over) lithium battery! Are you a fan of bi-directional USB-C? Hey, so are we! This awesome little board goes both ways - the USB-C connector is both an input to charge a lithium battery at 1.0-1.2A and an output that provides a boosted 5V from the battery at 1.2A! If you're like "there's no way a SOT-23-5 chip can do all that and have two LED outputs, there just aren't enough pins" yeah that's what we initially thought too until we kept thinking, drew out a diagram, and realized, holy shit yeah you can just do it in 5 pins if you have a fixed charge current. Also, if you have a low current application and are struggling to find 18650 power packs that don't need a minimum output current to function, this little puppy will happily provide uA (and maybe nA?) of current for processors in sleep mode. What else is awesome about this board? It's breadboard-compatible - the 5V input/output plugs right into a power rail There are 2 headers