The Texas Buck driver series, Q8 / Skyray King 2S/4S buck driver RELEASED!

I agree, I will take care of that before releasing it.

I found this in bistro:

    // 1.1v reference, left-adjust, ADC3/PB3
    ADMUX  = (1 << V_REF) | (1 << ADLAR) | CAP_CHANNEL;

And 17.13.1 of the manual explains the bits clearly, so:

ADMUX =(1 << V_REF) | (1 << ADLAR) | CAP_CHANNEL | 1<< 4;

Would set the 2.56V reference for attiny 25 and attiny 8, but really should add a define, and might be different in attiny13, and needs changing in a couple of places and might interfere with temperature readings (but I don't think so, it's got separate code), etc... So doable, but not quite just flipping a switch.

Anyway that line and the details behind it confirms that the way things are setup now is for 1.1v, so I agree, that's what we should use for now at least.

The only question then is what total resistance to aim for for acceptable drain current. is 95k enough or should we double R2 and bring it all up to the 200k range? I don't like 900k.

And the reason it's setup for 1.1V is 2.56V cannot be used if Vcc drops below 3V. So 1.1V is more universal.

Ah, that would explain why the 2.56v is used and I think we should keep using it for that reason. We don’t need more accuracy then that honestly.

Far as resistance the parasitic drain is much lower the higher the resistance goes. I think the 200k+ range would be a good goal.

Well sure it is, exactly inverse proportional. Ok, I think 11k and 220k was good when I checked. No time to run the numbers now, but something very close to that is good.

We missed one. According to your LDO TA series docs, C2 should be 10uF when using an LDO, which makes sense. This one at least is low voltage, so really doesn't need to be physically larger. This is why we waited a few days. Updates coming soon.

Good catch, I have dealt with too many variations in the designing of these drivers to keep track of my own notes lol.

Yeah, I've just had enough of parts lists for a couple of days. I'll find a new cap and edit it all in a day or two.

No problem, I am swamped with things myself so it will most likely by late this week or this weekend before I get around to releasing it anyways.

Well rats, so yeah, C2 is only available in 6.3V X5R in a 10uF 0603. Price isn't bad at 0.13 per one. Your usual comment TA is that an 0805 will fit there. Is that still true in this one? It looks possible to slide C1 north about a mm, if it goes back to not jumping the trace (trace turns between c1 and c2). Is there room to squeeze an 0805 on as it is?

On the other hand, X5R is probably ok. There's an X7t also. Not sure which is better, probably makes little difference. In the long run, it looks like C1's are headed toward 0805 with this new OTC trick. sigh. There is a way, to even get the footprint, moving the trace between them, and then sliding C1 left a bunch. I know you don't want to make that a long trace. If we can just have enough clearance to fit an 0805 on the 0603 pad, that's good enough too though.

An 0805 fits on the 0603 pads, overhanging just slightly.

Although in this case I should be able to change it to an 0805 pad.

Ok, I knew it would fit the pads, but was worried there wasn't room here for the overhang. I'm thinking of dropping the clickie R1/R2 reccomendations for now since a) there's no clickly application for this in its current form I guess, b) the new OTC is going to make changing the resistors irrelevant anyway if it pans out. I wrote it up just for it to be there for later, but now it's not clear what later will look like anyway.

R1/R2 should be setup for the LVP first and everything else second. I agree the new off-time setup should really improve things.

Come to think of it, it should also fix/vastly improve the issues with lighted tailcaps as well.

There's nothing wrong with the clicky R1/R2 10x lower values. They just aren't going to be needed anymore if OTC gets offloaded.

Ah, I see.

Ok, 0805 C2 and ground ring:

Awesome, new parts table coming soon. I was starting on it when I ran into that.

Is the battery side ground ringed too? Thermal vias between the two sides might even help.

I thought about that but just seemed like it was too much risk for short circuiting if there was any mis-alignment.

I don't understand. If the case hits a battery pad that's a short with or without the ground ring there. The case is going to be at battery ground now either way. Could just make the battery pads a little smaller.