Li-Ion or LiPo Battery Charger 7.4 V

Please note: the board is supplied tested and complete with 3 female JST connectors (with leads) for wiring to the battery/power supply/output. It is also supplied with all SMD components already soldered, while the through-hole parts (pin strips) are supplied for you to solder.

Breakout boards are prototyping boards carrying the chip of interest already soldered in place, with its connections brought out to the edge of the board on pads whose pitch and termination are easy to work with; the connections are normally pads on a 2.54 mm pitch, like those of classic DIP chips. To help anyone who would like to use SMD parts but lacks the tools or the skill to solder them, a number of chips (sensors, switching regulators, battery chargers, linear amplifiers and so on) have been selected and mounted on ready-to-use boards. These breakout boards are both an aid for those who want the best of SMD electronics ready to go in a “traditional” format, and for those who — even though they can work with SMD parts — need those parts available on prototyping boards so they can add them to existing circuits and run tests, that is, to build prototypes using the functions of those chips before committing to the final printed circuit board of a piece of equipment.

• MCP73844-840I/MS