Build a Kipkay Solar USB Charger!
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I really want to make this but what diode do I need, and instead of a portable charger board, can I just use a dc to DC booster 5v module?
@@dp75675 might be a little late, but the diode looks like a 1N4148
Fun, easy, and useful for an emergency!
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Awesome project! You never know when you phone is going to just up and die on you.
Build your own Solar USB Charger!
you need to do it yourself, you can't have a ready made free sample, if you make it yourself, you can customize your own to do what you want
kipkay When you say standard diode do you mean something like this: 1N4007 1A 1000V Rectifier Diode DO-41 Tape.
Because if not, I'm at a complete loss.
kipkay How many amps does the usb regulator provides?
Can you use rectifier diodes?
+Lone Wolf yes, any diode should do
standard means that other diodes like leds, and zeners won't work
Did he buy a portable charger to make a portable charger? I'm the only one that seems concerned...
christian villegas i thought that to lol. to make it easier he could have taken it apart, drilled holes, and soldered the solar panel then put it back togeather
Christian Villegas He added a solar panel .
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But you can use this version while camping, your version requires batteries to carry energy, this relies on the sun.
Walter White Now he can use the portable charger to charge the portable charger.
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where's the fun in that?
It would've been MUCH easier to just put the solar panel on the emergency usb charger...
sorry but the solar panel is far too small to charge these two batteries. you need something much bigger for 2x3200mAh.
Is it just me or did this whole video sound like an infomercial
This is by far the best and easiest diy solar charger for iPhones I've seen on here. KipKay makes it look so simple. Some of you are asking what the standard diode is? I live in the uk and I've always used a N1914 diode (I think those are the right numbers??) the one I use has a white stripe instead of a black one but yet principal when soldering is the same. The diodes are just designed to stop any power being transferred back into the solar panel from the batteries. I would recommend buying good quality rechargeable batteries with a high Mah as shown in the video, you can get 4 x AA rechargeable ones from my local pound shop but they only have 800mah power so it wouldn't give you much oooomph when charging an iphone.
Lastly, the only thing I do differently is leave a little toggle switch and the small led on the finished product as I like the fact that you can switch it on and off.
Overall a fantastic little project to complete in an hour or over a weekend. Thank you KipKay once again for your great tutorials
Here, I'll make kits for EVERYONE that you can buy, you just have to sign up for a paid monthly subscription, not just buy that one kit.
I started building one of these years ago with regulators and everything so as to avoid possibly damaging any batteries by running too much juice into them... shortly after, these things were all being sold in the store. I still have the stuff to make it (which I paid $6 for at radio shack) and still want to finish it... maybe a couple years down the road. :)
I just ordered all the parts for this on ebay for £8
Great idea
Kipkay is forever hooking us up with the hotness!
I have a thing where I can plug it in to a wall and it gives me 4 USB ports. Can I just use a USB port from that with a battery holder?
Finally, a real kipkay project!!! Not all those weird mini-hacks
This was on my bday!!!!!!!!!
You could probably start a manufacturing company with that. Everyone is always looking to save on utility bills. A solar phone charger would be a good buy (Especially since it would be easy to carry about and would never stop working outside as you don't need to charge it from home). Good Video!
Can you connect the solar panel straight to the female USB port instead of the batteries? I just want full power as fast as I can. AKA zombie apocalypse.
Unfortunately not because the solar panel won't produce enough energy to charge your phone. But if you connect batteries, the solar panel will charge those batteries then from the batteries it will go to the 5v converter and provide a semi efficient charge
Good project and excellent build. I envy your soldering skills!
Can i just buy the charger without making it??!!!!
Every time I watch a kipkay video I'm like "I could actually do this!" Then kipkay says those dreaded words: "Then I brought out my soldering machine."And I'm like "oh"
Would have been much better to make holes in the lid for the solar panel wires then hot glue the panel to the lid
i think the solar panel would retain too much heat there has to be air flow from under it
Electrical tape. Thanks for that idea. Was trying to determine a no-frills way of securing the board without shorting. Great idea. thx
Wat was the tool that u used to connect all the wires . It was like a heatin tool with a liquid that connected all the wires .
em... soldering iron?
It's called a sodder gun
Soldering iron
you don't know what you watching nigga if you don't know what soldering is...!
Jevin Wilson ur the straight example of autosm
Kipkay is so awesome, he is like the best household-hacker ever
So... lets have some batteries left outside in the sun... totally not gonna explode...
Ik im super late but they are nickel metal hydrite batteries. They are least likely to explode compared to other types
A diode is like a one way valve. It allows current to flow to charge your batteries, but prevents it from flowing the other way, discharging them.
What is the size of the diode
Use a 1N914 Diode you can get it on amazon
ItzLezgo thx
Danny2465 Np
do you really need a diode?
Yeah you do
Do not expect those batteries to last very long. Real rechargeable battery circuits use integrated circuit chips that put the batteries through charge cycles inorder to maximize battery life. Im not saying this circuit wont work, but the batteries are going to become duds pretty quick.
Couldn't you overcharge the batteries like this?
+Two - Dimensional nimh wont get overcharged from this puny panel
+DMAN22yeah that's a 4v panel, it may overchange them
Gulherme Pereira it will put out less than 100ma, which at 4v is only .4v, which will be dissipated as a trivial amount of heat.
DMAN22yeah So, instead of overcharging, it will just heat the batteries ever so slightly?
+Two - Dimensional yeah pretty much, they are supposed to get warm during charging anyways
I would have mounted the solar panel on the top of the tin, just ran the wires through the tin and make it openable if you ever needed to replace the rechargable batteries
True
its pronounced solder, not soder. but apart from that its a great video
Thats what he said
If you want to charge USB stuff, get a 2.5-5W solar panel with USB output. Projects like this can actually DISCHARGE your phone (and other devices) while the display says it's charging.
Great video, I have 2 questions though. Would this work on a larger scale with more batteries and a stronger solar pannel? And, does the AA battery holder work as the input for solar energy as well as the output for power to the phone?
Thanks!
What a scam!
All of the parts for it came from him, & no idea were else you could get them.
Lets not make this a pissing contest. Any time anyone is willing to show you on a video how to create something for cheap money, but states you can get the parts from his Web Site. I call that a scam!
End of conversation, to all comments.
iflyhelis your wrong. period.
Connor L. My Son tells me I am wrong & I agree with him. I should have never conceived him, because he is a ungrateful S.O.B. that never wanted to listen to experience & thinks he is as correct as you are. Pal You have no idea of what this world is, I have been through all of it, including combat in Vietnam.
End of discussion.
iflyhelis You idiot, you can just buy these all these components from Fry's for about $30 and have enough to make two chargers.
A nice addition to this project would be a plexiglass window for the solar panel to make it all self contained. No need to pull the solar panel out to charge. Or instead of a solar panel
Kipkay you finally got it, putting on usb adaptor instead of just an apple charger cable because adapters are lots cheaper
youre correct on that. You see he also uses an emergency phone charger which uses two double a batteries aswell. Inside that emergency charger is a 5volt dc boost circuit. This special circuit takes the 1.2vx2=2.4 volts(roughlys) and runs it through an oscillator which outputs a steady 5volts in a square wave. You see similar circuits in garden lights that uses one double a battery 1.2volts (mi-mh) to light a 3volt white led.
WTF?!
Hearing this guy's voice was a blast from the past. (Make Magazine Weekend Projects anyone?)
The perfect tool to have handy after the fall of man. How else would one slay zombies while listening to Beethoven uninterrupted?
Soder is not anything at all.
Solder it has L in it
That's a good idea to make a great home made usb solor charger. it's great for emergency back up just in case the power goes out you don't have to wary about be left on the dark ever again.it's great for chargeing up phones or laptop computer flashlights or more.
To charge these batteries you would have to wait hours. I built one of these myself with 7 old solar cells from garden lights. Even with 7 cells, the best amount of power I got out of it was about 55 mW. So, it was about 11 mA at 5.08 V using a 7805 as my voltage regulator. Needless to say, charging ANYTHING with it would simply not work.
I've been thinking about about buying a 3d printer lately, and I just thought you're projects could benefit from a 3d printer a LOT...
hahaha first you people say: I want easier projects, the projects are too hard! Now you say: I like these longer videos, the short ones were kinda boring. WHAT DO YOU WANT!? FOR REAL!!! Let Kipkay just do his thing and you're just gonna have to be okay with that, rather you like it or not!
The circuit board from that charger is a step-up transformer adapter, increasing about 3v to 5v for USB. In case anyone was wondering.
But without the on/off switch isn't that transformer constantly draining the batteries? Shouldn't there be a switch??
mikekoz68
I never mentioned switches anywhere. But you're right, a switch would save on battery life big time.
Theres a switch on the circuit that little bar
It's not that bad. Although I bet he could do a good Kermit impression :P
they produce 3v's, yes, but the wiring from the battery pack is also attached to a solar panel, so i'd imagine the board would be getting a charge from the batteries and the solar panel.
Here is only a small solar panel and a zener diode (together cost about $2). The complete kit maybe $3-5 (with rechargeable battery)
Now time to find a way to charge an electronic device without wires!
people, save this video to an old flash drive... throw that in your emergency kit... when shit goes down, you will be glad... in time this will be worth a life.
About time for some more classic kip
how funny, me and a couple of friends was going to a science contest in a exchange project and won with this same idea :D
Yeah I always thought a solar USB charger would be keen for a camping/survival kit. Well I did some research and it lead me down a long and adventurous path of some pretty ground breaking tech… I started with an idea of a solar flashlight that would give a bit of power back to itself, but would not last forever. I know that nothing last forever on its own. So…. Long story short. I discovered some home grown smarts that used a peltier device to create a flashlight with no need for onboard power supply.. So I looked into that and then thought of a new idea, a camping stove that could charge USB devices. Well I do my research before anything and found a camp stove that already exists and is on the market. The BioLite is a small compact camp stove that has taken the peltier device and incorporated it with a camp stove to create a wood stove generator.. Really cool piece of gear. Works like a charm. Check it out. Im gonna load up some video's of me using mine this summer. Its called the BioLite. Google that shit!! Hahaha.. Live smart and survive!!
What is shill?
DaddyTheTechnition Shill is a casino employee who plays a slot machine, pretending to be a customer, to draw other customers in.
mosby95 Nah!! I posted my post 5 months ago while I was a satisfied customer of a product. Not anymore tho. After a summer of camping my stove no longer holds a charge. Shitty!!
You could cut a hole in the top of the Altoids tin and glue the solar panel in place. Then you don't have to move the inside components around as much!
yeah. Thats what i was thinking. But i think it might just charge a little slow, or in some cases, i think there is a little transformer in the phone. Anyway, there's visual proof! PS: Voltage is important in electronics but you MUST remember the difference between volts and watts. Volts is BASICALLY how fast the electricity is, but WATTS is BASICALLY how powerful the electricity is!
So to apply solder for example you have to take the solder stick thing then melt it on the solar panel negative and positive spots then take the solder stick again then melt it on the diode. Then attach the diode to the positive side and melt them together with the solder gun????? And the same thing for wires??
It is a metal you melt and put on a wire to connect it to a circuit. You can look up a tutorial on how to do it.
This new direction for the channel I enjoy. Researched this project online for weeks trying to find the details of how it works, a nice video and compete kit it perfect for all the DIY projects I want to do that I see demoed on this channel!
a cool thing to do would be cutting out a hole in the tin the size of the solar panel and hot gluing the panel to the tin. then you can just leave in in the sun and let it charge!
Kip ur one of the best hackers and modders in youtube, ur the best.
just connect the negative end on one solar panel to the positive end of the other, then you'll have one positive and one negative end from the panels. Wire them up like he shows in this video.
Soo good to see the classics!
THIS is a kipkay video. Amazing.
For a while kipkay went downhill, I'm a super fan so I'm glad to see he's slowly on the way up again
Best video yet kipkay, it took you long enough
Was here since 3,000 and saw this video and years later came back and saw you had 2.3 million Great Job Dude👍
the exact diode used in this project is a 1n4148 diode...just look it up on eBay or amazon
whoa.. that could be very usefull for when i go camping. Thnx a lot :)
I just have a question about the battery setup. If they both charge at the same time, will one be done before the other, or will the charge even out between them? Also, can I use a 1N34A diode for this?
The charger would be restricted to not allow back flow of power in to the batteries. You could wire around that, but it probably would just be easier to make a new circuit like this.
wow...this is like the Heath Kits from the 60's and 70's......very nice.....but radio shack sell all the things you need to build it...and most of the things come in pairs....so make both and sell 1.....
How interesting, we posted this exact same project and started selling this exact same kit back in 2011. Thanks for poaching it from us KipKay, we hope you're making a lot of money off of it.
TheKizilg1 I publish my kit designs online for free so that people, even people like you, can go and build them on their own. With or without my parts. In fact I publish them under the Creative Commons License for this reason, though I exclude using my designs for Commercial purposes. Terms which seem to have been ignored.
Brown Dog Gadgets Are you telling me that it's difficult to solder some batteries to a solar panel and stick it inside a metal tin? A ten year old could have though of that! People have been doing it for years, you have no kind of legal right to that information. Nor do you have any proof that Kipkay even saw your video (which has less than 20k veiws, so I doubt it).
HOLY SHIT.
KIPKAY KITS.
MY LIFE IS COMPLETE. THANK YOUUUUUUUUU
Found solar panels wit similar size(not sure of their DCV or amount of W) in small garden lamps less than 2€ piece!
Pff, what are you doing with your life, man. I got three solar chargers right here. Was gonna make a few tweaks to connect them and create my own, but this setup sounds much nicer than what i had planned.
STEP IT UP BOYO
He removed the bulky casing and replaced it by an even bulkier case... And he replaced the batteries with not only the panel but recharchable batteries, too.
I would have changed the batteries inside the original charger and ran the wires for the panel to the outside. Optional would be a tiny plug to detach it and recommended would be a hard envelope to protect the panel. (This could also be build as a stand to cach light more efficiently)
Would have been much more tidy.
im addicted to your videos!!
is it possible to cut a slot kind of like a window for the solar panel then glue it so the altoidsso it exposes the solar panel so when u use it the other wires and stuff wont get exposed(just in case if it drizzles a little or if u accidently drop or something like that)
YEY OLD KIPKAY IS BACK!!!
Wow, I was watching you from when you had around 30-40 vids. I was bored and remembered about you, but didn't know your channel name. So I searched your Lighter Laser (the only project I remembered), and now, I found you :D
I was hoping for some overcharge protection or some other essential features..
I've been wanting to build something like this for ages now but there aren't any easy to follow / informative tutorials online :(
would be pretty damn usefull as a back up for a passthrough e-cig as well
finally hes saving himself from youtube death reaper
Technically yes, but that would just involve an extra step. You'd have to charge up the batteries first, then charge the USB device. Much more efficient to do it all at once. And really with this he's basically just using the batteries as large capacitors.
I wonder if you can attach the solar charger directly to the leads on a battery powered device to charge while it is being used
Is everyone forgetting that you need 5 volts for an usb device to charge. You need two more batteries and two or three more solar panels for this little device to be effective.
that is great! you can also charge batteries with the solar panel.
Please note that the sort of battery you use is VERY important, as this setup has the potential to overcharge batteries. Lithiums are a no-no and NiMH, such as he has, are also not a good idea. NiCaDs are your best bet.
These packages are such a good idea, Kipkay!
Will this work for an iPhone 5 connector? I'm interested in buying the kit. Also where can I get a soldering gun?
Yes, as long as it has a USB port. (The Lightning to USB cord) And soldering irons/guns are available at Radio Shack.
+jhRobert Skywalker
Buy it from the hardware store
Enmanuel Diaz Yes it will because it is USB
no, it doesnt charge if you dont use original Apple charger and usb, source: experience
your vids are awesome now i know how to charge my i pad on the go
Of all the materials to make the housing.... why choose a conductive one?
I did this one time as an emergency to charge my phone while we were camping, I have a solar panel like 1 foot long that is good to recharge the car battery, so I took a usb car charger and dismantled it to use the usb port and connected the wires to the solar panel directly, i didn't use any batteries on between and it worked great, the phone started charging inmediatly. So my question is! Why do you have to build a battery pack? I mean that will be good as a reserve for a future charge maybe at night when there's no sun energy. Just saying!
Now that's power saving!
I don't understand the concept of the diode really, I know they only let a small current pass. I am making one and is there a specific one for different voltage? And I am using 9v. because I want to charge my ipad so , do I need a different one, will it work on my phone too??? And instead of 1 USB Ports I am using 2 does it make a difference??? THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!
I really want to make this but what diode do I need, and instead of a portable charger board, can I just use a dc to DC booster 5v module?
Couldnt you just put the charged batteries in the usb charger? LMAO
wait! you teard a usb charger apart to make your own altoids tin charger? BRAVOOOOO!
Hot glue is a non or low conducting material. You want medal solder to keep the electrons flowing!