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Polymer Lithium Ion Battery - 110mAh
This is a very small, extremely light weight battery based on the new Polymer Lithium Ion chemistry. This is the highest energy density currently in production. Each cells outputs a nominal 3.7V at 110mAh! Comes terminated with a standard 2-pin JST-PH connector - 2mm spacing between pins. These batteries require special charging. Do not attempt to charge these with anything but a specialized Lithium Polymer charger.
Battery includes built-in protection against over voltage, over current, and minimum voltage. Please use caution when using this battery in wearable projects. When using conductive thread, a short in the thread can create sparks and heat. We recommend using coin cell batteries for beginners.
Note: Due to the requirements of shipping these batteries, orders may take longer to process and therefore do not qualify for same-day shipping. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
Note: Be careful with the JST connectors. They can stick in pretty good and tugging on them can damage the connector. Check this tutorial for an easy way to remove them safely.
Note: This item is non-returnable. If this item arrives damaged or is not functioning properly, please do not hesitate to contact us to see if further actions may be taken.
W****eight: 2.65g
F****eatures:
- Excellent long-term self-discharge rates (<8% per month)
- Robust power source under extreme conditions (-25 to 60C)
- 5.7x12x28mm
- Datasheet (The datasheet is incorrect, these are not limited to a 2C discharge and the dimensions are wrong)
- JST Connector
- Digikey 455-1734-1-ND (Top Entry)
- Digikey 455-1749-1-ND (Side Entry)
- [MSDS](http://cdn.sparkfun.com/datasheets/Prototyping/Lithium Ion Battery MSDS.pdf)
Polymer Lithium Ion Battery - 110mAh Product Help and Resources
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Charge Rate for the 110mAh LiPo Battery
Due to the protection circuit's 300mA limit on these, our chargers can't charge them without tripping the protection circuit. Users will need to modify their charger to charge at a rate lower than 300mA. Users may be able to modify a charger for a lower charge rate. The SparkFun USB LiPoly Charger - Single Cell has an excellent tutorial on how to do that under the section LiPo USB Charger Hookup Guide: Setting the Charge Current .
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Overcurrent Protection Activation
The over current protection circuit activates at somewhere between 250 and 300mA on these.
Core Skill: Electrical Prototyping
If it requires power, you need to know how much, what all the pins do, and how to hook it up. You may need to reference datasheets, schematics, and know the ins and outs of electronics.
Skill Level: Noob - You don't need to reference a datasheet, but you will need to know basic power requirements.
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Customer Reviews
4.1 out of 5
Based on 10 ratings:
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Boo, changed part without saying so!
I ordered this part about 8 months ago, and it worked perfectly for my application. So a month ago I ordered a bunch more, but the new part is different-- they must have changed the over-current regulation chip or something, because these new batteries don't power the motors that ran flawlessly using the old batteries. Lame! And they didn't assign the current stock to a new part number or make any kind of note that the batteries had changed. Almost $40 wasted :-(
Hi, I don't show any record of this part changing in almost 4 years. I'm sorry it didn't work in your application as you expected. I'll contact you directly to see what we can do for you. Thanks
EXCELLENT wee battery
So far, I've completed 5 separate projects and in all 5 I've used this battery. Haven't had any issue with them yet. Because they're small - they're SO much better than conventional batteries for my projects. I'm actually ordering more of them tonight.
So far, so good.
I got a few of these months ago and they seem to be working fine. I'm a bit of a novice at this new electronics hobby of mine so these were a simple, easy solution to the energy requirements in the first few projects I did. Now I just have to figure out if I can connect them in series and still recharge them. :)
Very Small and Useful
For who need a battery for a small small project, I indicate
Handy... but be careful charging them!
Using a few of these to power an arduino model rocket payload. They are handy, but you have to be careful - you can't charge these with the sparkfun basic charger. You need to use the bigger one (PRT-12711) set to 100mA. The basic one will kill the battery as it supplies too much current - They aren't very specific about that anywhere.
Output current VERY limited!
Like a previous reviewer, I purchased a couple of these batteries awhile ago, and they worked flawlessly for my small servo setup. (Voltage boosted up to 5V.) After buying a bunch more recently, they are no longer performing the same.
Also, a few of them (I bought 15) don't even charge with Sparkfun's own Li-Ion charger!
Battery works fine
It's small, which is great. For my project, which has a Qduino, 3 LEDs, and 8 analog IR-based range sensors (ORD1114's), plus PCM-based audio out (using Mozzi), it run it for about 1.5 hours. Since I had space, I switch to the 1000mAh battery, which runs it for much longer.
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Nice Battery, slow shipping
This is a nice small battery. It has improved since the last time I bought them with smaller, less stiff leads.
I asked for ground shipping, since that's the only was it could safely ship. However, even though it showed as in stock, it took almost a week before it was shipped. It needed special paperwork, but nobody seemed to get to doing it.
It works, and it works dude
It's a battery with a JST connector on it. Makes for nice battery swapping, but the cable is a whole lot longer than you'd expect.
I have a battery like this one in terms of capacity, but it's squared and it has 3, yes three, wires going to a simmilar connector. Red and black are obvious but, does anyone know what might be the use of the third one? It is thinner than the other two and it's orange. I know this question is not related to this product and I'm sorry, but if anyone could give some answer, I'd appreciate it. I'm not comfortable taking a LiPo apart to inspect it.
"The datasheet is incorrect, these are not limited to a 2C discharge and the dimensions are wrong" how much can these output? I don't want to start a fire by putting too much load on these- better safe than sorry.
Can 'we' get a clear answer/link? What can be used to re-charge these Li-Po batteries??
Specifically these 40mA Li-Po's.. (and the 110mA ones too),... I read talk of chips...changing this or that..
Is there a product sold that can re-charge these?
If not.... should probably be noted..
If the only way is to buy an existing product (ie: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10401) and then altering it somehow,..then that also should be noted, with a clear diagram/outline/tutorial on exactly needs to be done..
Just a simple product that 'works'... to re-charge these and the 100mA ones)
thanks
In the comments for this item: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10217, MikeGrusin (from SparkFun) replied (https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10217#comment-511a8f68ce395ff505000000) about how to modify the basic lipo charger to handle smaller batteries. Essentially, you take the 2k PROG resistor out, and replace it with a larger resistor. Per the datasheet, you should replace it with a 40k resistor to bring the charge down to 40mAh, which is appropriate for the smaller batteries.
I used a 33k surface mount resistor that I had lying around. It was one size up from the old resistor, but it was fine. Alternately, you can use a through-hole resistor if you solder carefully. So far, my tiny 40mAh battery is charging fine, and is not at all warm. Obviously, YMMV.
As these batteries are just simple LiPo batteries, any LiPo charger will do. Sparkfun sells many of these:
µUSB
Mini USB
Different mini USB
Larger battery with charger that would work.
Charger/Booster board
MAX1555 charge control chip
They've been selling these for quite a while now.
This is INCORRECT. Too fast of a charge rate WILL make your batteries hot and probably fail, possibly catastrophically. LiPo batteries are NOT to be trifled with.
Good to have somebody touting safety. Even so, Mikkel J is actually correct. Each of the chargers he listed can be set to charge at the maximum rated current for these cells, which is 100 mA. The end user just needs to make sure it IS set to that current, and not higher.
The Revolectrix Cellpro chargers can be set as low as 10mA. The higher end Powerlab models allow configuration and monitoring through a PC. See http://www.revolectrix.com/CCS_Tour.htm.
When do you expect back in stock?
Do you know when this product will become available again?
The spec sheet says the max dimensions of the battery are 4x15x28, but the size listed on the sparkfun page says the device is 4.8x13x28. 4.8 > 4. Are these batteries really <= 4 mm?
Even worse man, I've got two of these and they measure 5.7×11.3×27, wtf...
*Edit: alright, the product description got it right, but the cell datasheet is contradictory to it.
It's interesting that they're rated 110mAh in the picture.
I purchased five of this, and none of them recharges.
I have 3.7V 40mA batteries as well. 60% of them were not able to recharge when I got them. I had to open them up and re-wire them. It was considered to be as miner problem. It was just messy manufacturer wiring job.
However 3.7V 110mA batteries much nicer wiring job, however it just doesn't work. I think there is problem with charging protection circuit. Charging protection circuit are used two chips, 8205a and DW01 usually. People who designed this battery use their own DW01, which I think causing the charging problem.
Since I can upload picture of the schematics, please search DW01, and keep that in mind the manufacturer use their own DW01(It is little bit different)
So when the normal state, the OD and OC should power two transisters M1 and M2(from 8205a). And when either the voltage at the battery is too low or the voltage at the battery is close to 4.3V then OD or OC will turn off to protect the Battery. It is determined by comparing two voltage difference between Vdd and GND and between CS and GND.
Here comes the problem. initially before I connect a battery to a charger, OD and OC is close to Vdd. However as soon as I connected the battery to the charger, OC became zero. That means, the circuit thinks that the battery voltage is very close to the 4.3V, which never been true so far.... I suspect CS is shorted to P+(charger power)
It seems no one has recharging problem but me... Please advise me in this case.
Your USB port may not be suppling enough current- have you checked the charger and USB separately? Try another charger and a different USB port as a underpowered USB port could cause brownout.
I purchased five of this, and none of them recharges.
I have 3.7V 40mA batteries as well. 60% of them were not able to recharge when I got them. I had to open them up and re-wire them. It was considered to be as miner problem. It was just messy manufacturer wiring job.
However 3.7V 110mA batteries much nicer wiring job, however it just doesn't work. I think there is problem with charging protection circuit. Charging protection circuit are used two chips, 8205a and DW01 usually. People who designed this battery use their own DW01, which I think causing the charging problem.
Since I can upload picture of the schematics, please search DW01, and keep that in mind the manufacturer use their own DW01(It is little bit different)
So when the normal state, the OD and OC should power two transisters M1 and M2(from 8205a). And when either the voltage at the battery is too low or the voltage at the battery is close to 4.3V then OD or OC will turn off to protect the Battery. It is determined by comparing two voltage difference between Vdd and GND and between CS and GND.
Here comes the problem. initially before I connect a battery to a charger, OD and OC is close to Vdd. However as soon as I connected the battery to the charger, OC became zero. That means, the circuit thinks that the battery voltage is very close to the 4.3V, which never been true so far.... I suspect CS is shorted to P+(charger power)
It seems no one has recharging problem but me... Please advise me in this case.
Hmm, try emailing techsupport@sparkfun.com and they should be able to help you.
Any idea when these are going to be back in stock?
why the datasheet mentions that the charging current is 100ma why Sparkfun's charges almost have 500ma current as charging?
what is the max current this can output?
The description mentions a battery protection circuit is included. However I don't see any reference to this in the datasheet. Has anyone verified the protection circuit is included and what voltage limits are set for over-voltage, under-voltage?
Is it possible to get 7.4V by using 2 of these batteries or am I gonna blow something if I do this? :)
Can this be charged with powercell lipo charger?
For this 100ma LiPo, the datasheet says 100ma for rapid charge rate (3h), 50ma for regular charge rate (4.5h). Has anyone tried charging with PRT-10217 or PRT-10161? Just wondering if the chargers got hot, in which case i'll probably opt for the 50ma charge rate...
im using a micro usb cable connected to my computer to charge it. how long does it take?
Can't find the 3D CAD model at https://github.com/sparkfun/3D_Models/tree/master/Products There should be a batteries folder to match the website, correct?
"The repo is organized in the same way as the product catalog. If you don't know where a model goes, look at where the product is on the site."
That means we don't have one in there yet. We've been slowly getting 3d models added as customers request them. I'll put in a model request for you!
Thanks :) But when I click on the 3D square logo on this part (??) it says, "We liked this product so much we modeled it!" Is that a mistake?
Building a Pong Sat with this battery http://events.hackerdojo.com/event/3753004-svsc-pongsat-workshop
Ah, I see the confusion now. The structure is a bit messed up. The battery should live here: https://github.com/sparkfun/3D_Models/tree/master/Products/Prototyping.
could you drive an arduino pro mini with one of these, and roughly how long for?
IF I plug 3 of these in to form a series... resulting in approx. 12v, will the protection circuit see that they are over voltage and shut these cells down??
Nope. Each circuit measures across its own cell. The other cells basically don't factor into it at all. This is actually at the heart of a load-balancing charger (which is what you'd need to charge the 3 cells if you keep them in series), where a connector wired across each individual cell allows the charger to get the voltage across each individual cell, and charge them individually as appropriate for the cell's given voltage, bypassing any overall protection circuitry.
Availability? I would need few of these by the next weeks...
Looks like we're expecting some around the end of the month.
Question: If I'm charging this battery with the basic charger from sparkfun off my computer, how long does it take to finish charging?
What do you use to charge this battery? Since the 0.2CA charging rate is about 20ma, i can't find any charger that will do less than 100ma.
Note that the max charging rate is 1C, so you can successfully (and quickly) charge these at 100mA.
If you'd rather treat the cell more kindly and charge it at 0.2C, you could use one of our MCP73831T-based charger boards, but you would have to replace the PROG resistor with something in the 40K range to get a 20mA charge rate. See the datasheet and schematics for those chargers for details.
i would not recommend charging these in parallel or in series unless you have the correct balancing charger for them, they do have them listed here
Does the battery charge if we connect the battery to Lilypad Arduino Simple Board and we connect the Simple Board to the computer using USB?
Does this provide 3.3V of input to an Arduino Lilypad? Need to attach a sound sensor to that Arduino which requires 3.3V
Any idea when these will be back in stock?
Just a question, how can I charge these batteries if I have two of them connected in parallel together? Can I still use a standard lipo charger?
Thanks for any suggestion. Paolo.
In order to use this battery properly do we need to monitor the voltage to prevent overdischarging?
not sure if this matters to anyone, but the last batch i got of these had different dimensions. same 110mah, but 5x11.5x28. previous was 4x17.5x29 (all in mm). so - a bit thicker, but much smaller footprint. don't have an accurate enough scale to weigh them.
any updates on when these will be back in stock?
If I am using a voltage booster (PRT-08999) can I splice in a second wire set from the battery's wires and run a display and arduino while charging?
Maybe a bit overkill for this use, but it can power a chinese bluetooth mouse for two full days of intensive use:
review and upgrade of 6D rechargeable bluetooth mouse
When will you stock batteries like this? 130mah 25C, $7 qty 1
http://www.hyperion-world.com/products/product/HP-LG325-0130-1S-UM
The tutorial button doesn't work...
Thanks for the heads up; fixed!
According to my scale, they weigh 2.79 grams each
Never mind, other people beat me to it.
I'm looking for a 3V protection circuit like the one that is installed on this battery. The cell I'm using is actually 240mAh, but I suspect that this circuit would work. Anyone know where to buy a similar small protection circuit?
You could probably get a working protection circuit from a recycled battery.
Does the LiPoly Fast charger work on this?
Updated datasheet posted, with correct weight and capacity!
Because everyone was so concerned with the unit weight i weighed it with a small scale once i recieved the product.
the battery including the wire and JST connector weigh 4.2g
We now have more accurate scales. The units weigh in at 2.65 grams each.
If your scale doesn't go low enough to weigh one, why not weigh 10, 20 or even 100 of them at once and divide the weight on the scale by how many you are weighing?
the Datasheet says the package weighs approximately 10g
I'm in need of about 10 of these in the next 2 weeks. Do you know what sort of lead time is expected on these?
JST connector link is broken.
These batteries are small, but not nearly as light as mentioned in the description. They are actually about 3g each.