Thefreeman high power/efficiency driver development. Update : SP36 130W boost driver

It’s Anduril 2.

Unfortunately I have put aside this driver for now because after testing at 12Vin with an ATX power supply I tried at lower voltages and when reaching ~9Vin the controller would turn off at high power, after further testing I determined that it is at high duty cycle that this problem occurs, that is when Vout is close to Vin, I figure it must have to do with the charge pump circuit that power the high side FET at high duty cycle, maybe a leak somewhere… anyway after hours of testing I still couldn’t solve it so I left it there… I will revisit it later, and if I can’t get this controller to work nicely I can still go with a TI one with minor modifications.

In the meantime I continued working on a high power boost driver, initially for muli parallel cell soda can lights, that driver would also have integrated USB-C charging, but I figured I’ll do a version without charging first for single cell lights, less stuff to worry about in case of problems.

I assembled it a few days ago :

https://i.imgur.com/wjel103.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/pQerHfN.jpg

And made some measurements :

https://i.imgur.com/9J1K5yO.png

https://i.imgur.com/lclL0OS.png

It’s quite powerfull :boom::rocket:

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