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From a broken charger Mini converter from 15 V to 220 V

If you have a broken cell phone charger lying around idle, then you can use it to make one small but necessary homemade product. This is a simple voltage converter from constant 1.5 Volts to variable 220 Volts. The diagram is truly elementary and contains only 3 parts.
From a broken charger Mini converter from 15 V to 220 V

Manufacturing a mini voltage converter


We disassemble the charger housing and remove the board from there.
From a broken charger Mini converter from 15 V to 220 V

We solder the transformer from this board.
From a broken charger Mini converter from 15 V to 220 V

Converter circuit


From a broken charger Mini converter from 15 V to 220 V

As already mentioned, the scheme is the simplest. Before assembling it, you need to “ring” the transformer with a tester and find out the resistance of each winding. There should be three of them in total. Naturally, the resistance of the windings of your transformer may differ slightly - this is not a big deal. But if the discrepancies are dramatic, then such an instance may not be suitable.
We assemble the converter according to the diagram.
From a broken charger Mini converter from 15 V to 220 V

The circuit uses a “2SD882” transistor; it can be replaced by any low-frequency “p-n-p” medium-power structure. Or the domestic analogue KT815, KT817.
Everything is assembled by hanging installation without a fee in 5 minutes. Solder the wires from the light bulb socket and from the battery.
From a broken charger Mini converter from 15 V to 220 V

The device works immediately when turned on and does not require configuration. If generation does not start when you first turn it on, swap the contacts of one of the low-voltage windings.
A 220 V LED lamp with a power of 3 W was used as a load.
From a broken charger Mini converter from 15 V to 220 V

The operating frequency of the converter is about 25 kHz.
If you power the circuit with 3 Volts, the brightness of the lamp will increase and it will definitely shine at full power.
From a broken charger Mini converter from 15 V to 220 V

You can connect another charger as a load and charge your mobile phone from the batteries.

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Comments (22)
  1. Sentinel
    #1 Sentinel Guests 28 November 2019 08:36
    11
    We take a 1.5 V battery, attach a 220 V converter, connect it to a lamp that has a converter from 220 to 1.5 V (well, 3 V).....!!! Let's count the losses))))))
  2. Semyon
    #2 Semyon Guests November 29, 2019 07:06
    7
    "There should be three of them in total. Naturally, the resistance of the windings of your transformer may differ slightly"
    -What if the resistance of the windings of my transformer differs from three?
  3. Guest Alexander
    #3 Guest Alexander Guests December 3, 2019 21:45
    3
    Actually, three is the number of transformer windings. But the trance is very weak. Only an LED night light will do.
    1. load power
      #4 load power Guests January 2, 2020 09:36
      5
      in fact, the point is not even in the transformer, but in how much this device will function on a battery, I think its meaning is only for demonstration and it has no practical significance
      1. Edward
        #5 Edward Guests 16 January 2020 14:18
        3
        Yes, the law of conservation of energy applies here. It all depends on the power source, a 1.5 Volt battery will not give much. But from a 12 V car battery you can already power something significant. I powered fluorescent lamps like LB20 and LB40 this way. And even LB65 from 12 Volt, although the transformer was three times larger and the transistor was already powerful 13005. The converter fit into the size of a matchbox
  4. Guest Sergey
    #6 Guest Sergey Guests 11 December 2019 15:24
    7
    KT815 and KT817 have an n-p-n structure
  5. Guest Evgeniy
    #7 Guest Evgeniy Guests 9 January 2020 21:27
    2
    What resistor did you use?
    1. slav
      #8 slav Guests 10 January 2020 20:01
      5
      in the photo 33 Ohm
  6. Dmitriy
    #9 Dmitriy Guests 11 January 2020 09:51
    10
    Author lol confusing pnp and npn is tough...
  7. Dmitriy
    #10 Dmitriy Guests 22 January 2020 17:51
    4
    Sorry, I don’t really understand this, but still, how does direct current turn into alternating current in this circuit?
    1. Alexander
      #11 Alexander Guests 28 February 2020 23:35
      3
      Due to the high-frequency transformer, which sets the frequency of the direct voltage, converting it into alternating voltage
      1. Dmitriy
        #12 Dmitriy Guests 4 May 2020 23:02
        5
        This is something new! A transformer that converts direct current into alternating current!))) And the people who invented inverters have no idea about this miracle! Poor things.
        1. there is no such transformer in nature
          #13 there is no such transformer in nature Guests 9 August 2023 15:53
          2
          There is no transformer in nature that turns direct current into alternating current, use the correct terms. A transformer always works with alternating current and nothing else.
      2. Dmitriy
        #14 Dmitriy Guests 4 May 2020 23:06
        7
        I suspect that it is the transistor that sets the pulses, but what frequency will these pulses be? Is it really 50 Hz?
  8. Arkady.
    #15 Arkady. Guests 13 May 2020 08:18
    8
    I have a power transformer, I can use it to power the welding machine from a battery using a similar circuit. Thanks in advance.
    1. Guest Yuri
      #16 Guest Yuri Guests 13 May 2020 22:09
      7
      You can ask. But you won’t have time to brew anything.
  9. Fantasy in real life.
    #17 Fantasy in real life. Guests March 1, 2021 06:13
    0
    Edward
    LB 20, LB 40 operate for a long time on symmetrical voltage; pulsed voltage is not suitable for long. (Like constant voltage)
  10. Guest Konstantin
    #18 Guest Konstantin Guests 15 April 2021 17:01
    1
    How exactly does the conversion of direct current into alternating current take place?

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