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 ![]()
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