Design and development of solar powered buck converter using mc34063 for 5v battery charging

The evolution of Electronic gadgets and high performance electronic devices are primarily dependent on the battery of the device. Though with the advancement of technology, it seems that it’s quite difficult in remote places where electrification is still a distance dream and emergence of solar energy has paved way for the use of these electronic devices even in remote places. In this paper design and development of a solar powered Buck Converter using MC34063 for 5V battery charging has been presented. The built prototype is a low cost, compact, and portable with good efficiency which can be easily built for even general application. The hardware implementation along with software and experimental results are presented in this paper.