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The New Buck/Boost High Output Driver






Very nice and neat looking board, don't know how I never heard of this before now. :gj:
 
Tom. Just for clarification... What diodes will this drive and what is involved in building with them?

Obviously 445s are good. I'm confused about the single Li-ion and grounding as well.

Lets say compared to a linear, what considerations need to be taken using this as a build?

Thanks
 
tsteele93 said:
Tom. Just for clarification... What diodes will this drive and what is involved in building with them?

Obviously 445s are good. I'm confused about the single Li-ion and grounding as well.

Lets say compared to a linear, what considerations need to be taken using this as a build?

Thanks
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Hey Tom. I know you're asking foulmist but I think I can help answer some of your questions =)

Compared to a linear driver, this driver will be treated just like any other boost driver (no power supply unless hooked up to a load, and only use one 3.7v li-ion).

In addition, you'll need a battery contact board to wire this driver up to, as it doesn't have a positive contact, but the benefit of this is that the entire bottom of the driver can be directly heatsinked onto or inside a pill. See HERE for how I wire this driver up to the battery contact board.

And that's about it really. Hope this helps Tom =)

Ryan
 
RyanElectro said:
Hey Tom. I know you're asking foulmist but I think I can help answer some of your questions =)

Compared to a linear driver, this driver will be treated just like any other boost driver (no power supply unless hooked up to a load, and only use one 3.7v li-ion).

In addition, you'll need a battery contact board to wire this driver up to, as it doesn't have a positive contact, but the benefit of this is that the entire bottom of the driver can be directly heatsinked onto or inside a pill. See HERE for how I wire this driver up to the battery contact board.

And that's about it really. Hope this helps Tom =)

Ryan
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Thanks Ryan,

I ordered these a long time ago and I have them in my cabinet, but I just read through this again and realized that I had better clarify before I started putting them together. Thanks again!
 
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np! And yeah you will want to test the battery contact board for areas of continuity before soldering to it :)
 
my next revision is ready.

I wanted to lower the ripple to 10mA max but I had some problems similar to the ben boost when a cap is added between Vout and FB so I had to remove it.. Increasing the output cap showed no further improvements. But there is a ~70uF capacitance at the output. And 44uF at the inpunt.

attached is the manual and scope images for 3 different currents. Lower the current lower the ripple. At 1.75A and above ripple is around 60mA which is ok for the 445nm diodes anyway. At lower currents you can get a 35mA ripple and lower. Those are numbers in boost mode. In buck mode for red diodes the ripple is extremely low. Less than 10mA which is pretty good.

No startup spikes and oscillations.

930mA startup
930mAstartup-1.jpg


930mA ripple
930mAcurrentripple-1.jpg


1.75A and above startup
175Astartup-1.jpg


1.75A and above ripple
175Acurrentripple-1.jpg


1.25A startup
125Astartup.jpg


1.25A ripple
125Acurrentripple.jpg


Cliff will be having the 930mA versions and DTR will be having the 1.75A available in few days.

I too have a few pieces which I can set to what current you need.
 

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Very nice. I will add some shots with my scope when I get this one and I will set it up at the same time period.
 
Lol. I find myself becoming a driver collector... can't wait for this one though, foulmist seems to be on to something, let's hope anyhow.
 
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