This is the power board that’s designed to take power from a 7.4V two-cell LiPo battery and provide 5V out. It features a DC jack and MAX1555 to charge the batteries, there are no plans for a USB connection for power. I’m planning on using two 2A LiPo batteries from Sparkfun connected in serial using the following PCB:
It could be done by just hooking bare wires up to each other to connect the batteries in serial but this feels like a cleaner solution and one that will be easier to use the batteries in parallel if I decide to go with a 3.7V system.
February 20, 2010, 10:58pm
