HCS-UPS: Smart battery-backed power supply

Description: 

This module is inspired from a circuit published in a 1992 CCI TECH TIP. It is a battery-backed DC power supply with it's own trickle charger for gell-cell batteries. I modified the original design to add a constant current source for charging and a constant voltage source to trickle-charge the battery afterwards.

It is capable of supplying 3A at 14VDC to the HCS modules when AC power is present. A gell-cell battery automatically switches in when AC fails.  The circuit can accommodate batteries of various capacities.
 

Part Kits:

Due to the simple nature of the device, no kit will be made available.