Paper Battery Company today announced immediate availability of the Fast Charge Developers Kit for its PowerResponder™ product line. This kit enables product designers’ to incorporate fast charging PowerResponder hybrid supercapacitor cells in their products and prototype a variety of input charging devices and protocols, radically improving the use model of battery-powered devices. With the Fast Charge Developers Kit, PowerResponder cells can be fully charged in less than five minutes. A “charge in minutes to run for hours” capability is very attractive for applications such as power tools, toys, Bluetooth™ headphones, medical and industrial handheld devices and game controllers, where intermittent use cycles allow for rapid recharge in between uses.
“Anxiety over battery life is a major issue for users of all types of consumer and mobile devices. In addition, larger and larger batteries are being built in to systems with increasing safety risks,” said Shreefal Mehta, CEO of Paper Battery Company. “By fast charging and recharging the energy storage device in minutes to allow hours of runtime and replacing lithium batteries with supercapacitors, we are bringing exciting new tools to our customers so they can rethink energy management and provide an anxiety-free, battery-free customer experience.”
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The Fast Charge Developers Kit is available now from Paper Battery Company for $400 and includes a fast charger board, a user manual, technical support for optimizing the charging protocols and two 350F PowerResponder cells. Product developers can integrate the conformable PowerResponder™ supercapacitor over existing structural components, like in the headband of wireless headphones.
source: http://www.powerpulse.net/story.php?storyID=31844
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