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Group USB charging System for 24 or more

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e14 Contributor over 11 years ago

Too many wall warts.

 

     At least once a year I spent a great week on a houseboat. Approx between 20 to 30 people have many personal devices with them iPhones,iPads, iPods etc.

During the daytime the houseboat runs off the 12vdc battery system and at night time 2-4 hours the generator is running to charge up the batteries and to run 110vac stuff i.e microwave ovens.

What would be great is a project box with 24 or more USB female connectors mounted on the box to charge up 24 or more of these devices capable of 110vac or 12 vdc as the input to the transformer.

That way only the cables would be needed to connect without needing to use individual power supplies and cigarettes lighters plugs and 12 cube tapes to accommodate everyone's devices.

Can that be a future episode ?

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    gadget.iom over 11 years ago

    A simple approach to this project could be to parallel a string of USB outputs as a bus.

    A PSU such as this could take care of the 12V DC provision: SD-15A-5 - MEAN WELL - CONVERTER, DC/DC, 15W, 5V | Farnell element14 UK and a PSU such as this could take care of the 110V AC supply: HWS30-5/A - TDK LAMBDA - PSU, 30W, 5V | Farnell element14 UK.

     

    These supplies could then be manually switched into the USB Bus with a changeover switch, depending on what supply is most appropriate at the the time.

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    gadget.iom over 11 years ago

    A simple approach to this project could be to parallel a string of USB outputs as a bus.

    A PSU such as this could take care of the 12V DC provision: SD-15A-5 - MEAN WELL - CONVERTER, DC/DC, 15W, 5V | Farnell element14 UK and a PSU such as this could take care of the 110V AC supply: HWS30-5/A - TDK LAMBDA - PSU, 30W, 5V | Farnell element14 UK.

     

    These supplies could then be manually switched into the USB Bus with a changeover switch, depending on what supply is most appropriate at the the time.

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