While you are waiting on Forrest’s answer, I will offer the following: Ohms law.
Dropping 8 volts, 600 mA. Your AZ2117 was not reducing the amps. Just the volts. 8 * .6 = 4.8 watts Doesn’t matter if you used a resistor or some other component to drop the voltage, if it is a linear product there will be 4.8 watts of heat to get rid of. That heat shut down your chip. The VXO7805-500 is not a linear regulator. It is not dropping voltage across any component. It is full on or full off. Just regulating shorts bursts of current which are later smoothed out. This is like comparing a partially on water faucet to an electrically operated water valve. With a partially open valve, there is a pressure difference from one side to the other. With a solenoid operate valve it is either totally shut off or it behaves like a piece of pipe when fully open. No pressure difference across the device. It is that drop of voltage that generates the heat. From: canopy--- via AF Sent: Wednesday, March 6, 2019 11:09 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: EE Consultant Forrest, I added the VXO7805-500 between the battery and the board and now the board appears to be working reliably from battery. It's always worked fine via USB. Can you explain why going from 12V down to 5V makes the circuit work reliably? When the AZ2117 was reducing voltage was it also reducing the amps going through as well? I like the TPPM0301 but yes, I could use a few more mA. Also, I'd like a wider temperature range. I found another 500mA version but it has the same 0-70C operating range. On Sat, Mar 2, 2019 at 1:15 PM Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: I never looked at the data sheet until Forrest noticed the thermal problem. Surface mount. I use similar packages in some products. My pcb is double sided with large lands with a bazillion vias perforating it trying to use the PCB as a heatsink. It sucks for any real amount of heat. I am able to get rid of about 5 watts without turning things brown and having the parts unsolder themselves. In your case, the reg has a thermal shutdown circuit so you never got to the obvious smoke and self disassembly clues. The data sheet says you can flow -20C air over it at 8 watts... Just spray it with freon and you are good to go! -----Original Message----- From: Forrest Christian (List Account) Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2019 10:23 AM To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: EE Consultant Like Chuck said, pretty much any switchmode regulator aka buck converter aka dc-dc converter. This is where you end up with cost/benefits - there are fully integrated ones out there which are expensive but easy. A quick mouser search turns up a VXO7805-500 as an example. You can also do all of the design yourself, which is where datasheets come in handy. Note that this isn't going to be a drop in replacement since the USB voltage isn't going to be enough to power this with the switch method you are using. I'd reccomend setting this up so the bat goes directly into the regulator (it might even be reverse polarity protected, if not add a diode on the input to protect it). This would then have a 5V out which you would then feed into the rest of your circuit. This would require that you rearrange a bit of everything else. If I was designing it I would probably try to use something like a TPPM0301 which does all of the switching and regulating for you on the 3.3V side - You'd feed the USB into the 5Vcc pin, feed the output of the regulator described above into the 5Vaux pin, then take your output out of the 3.3Vout pin, ignoring the GND. However, if you really need 2.2W this particular part won't be enough, and you might actually have to add a 3.3V switcher as well since 2.2W is around 750mA and that's pretty beefy for a linear regulator of any sort. On the other hand, if you meant 2.2W currently at 12V, then this might be be fine. This pretty much neuters your source identification leds though. And the monitoring stuff to go with it. There's ways around this as well. Depending how much you want to share, I will say that the eevblog forum is a really good resource for this type of stuff. They also have a jobs board if you're looking for someone who might just take this off your hands. On Sat, Mar 2, 2019 at 7:22 AM [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > USB is preferred input so the battery isn't drawn down during normal > operation. I'm drawing > about 2.2W under normal operation. Is there another chip you'd recommend > other than > the AZ2117? > > On Sat, Mar 2, 2019 at 3:51 AM Forrest Christian (List Account) > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Oh this is an easy answer. >> >> At 12V, the AC2117 is dropping about 8 of those volts. >> 8V*400mA=3.2W. Thermal resistance to the heatsink on this part is >> 100C/W. So with a room temperatureish heatsink at 30*C, you're going >> to end up with a junction temperature of 100C/W * 3.6W = 320C + 30*C >> = 350C. This is above the absolute maximum operating temperature >> range of 150*C. >> >> The most you can draw through this with an 8V drop and an appropriate >> heatsink not exceeding 150*C (I'm assuming it gets a bit warm) is 150C >> - 50C = 100C. 100C/W means this part can dissipate at most 1W with >> an adequate heatsink. This equates to 1W/8V = 125mA max with a 12V >> input voltage. >> >> If you don't have an adequate heatsink or the temperature gets higher >> this is even lower, since the rating without a heatsink is 125C/W. >> >> Note that this isn't a problem off of USB because the AZ2117 doesn't >> drop much voltage, so even at 1V of drop, you'd only have >> 1V*400mA=400mW of power dissipation, and the unit should be able to >> handle this even without a heatsink. >> >> ALSO: Could you clarify here if the USB is the preferred input? If >> not, one could rip out IC2, R26, R3 and Q1 and replace it with another >> diode. >> ALSO: Not sure why the indicator leds are done the way they are - they >> probably work, but seems like overkill. >> >> On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 12:14 PM [email protected] >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Schematics attached. The main issue I'm having is when powered via USB, >> > everything works fine. When powered via a 12V car battery, the >> > chips seem to not have enough power. There are two comparator circuits, >> > one to monitor USB/Batt and report how the unit is being powered. >> > The 2nd actually provides the power. One chip will occasionally draw >> > ~150-400ma of power causing the board to lock up. Chips are powered >> > via Vin. >> > >> > What I don't understand is why everything works perfectly on USB but >> > has issues when powered via 12V. >> > >> > On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 11:53 AM <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Circle of stability, miller capacitance all good stuff. >> >> >> >> From: Mark Radabaugh >> >> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 9:48 AM >> >> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group >> >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: EE Consultant >> >> >> >> Oh sure, now you probably want me to believe transistors have states >> >> other than off and on. >> >> >> >> Mark >> >> >> >> On Feb 26, 2019, at 11:20 AM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> > And good luck finding an analog circuit guy anymore ;-) >> >> >> >> That’s what I was. Not much demand, that’s why I’ve been doing other >> >> things for over 20 years. Actually made the switch to engineering >> >> management in the 80’s but still did some design work for another 10 >> >> years because all the engineers wanted to do digital and processor >> >> designs. I still have the books, the brain is rusty though. >> >> >> >> I tried to convince the new engineers that high speed digital design >> >> meant knowing analog, RF and microstrip techniques, but they weren’t >> >> buying it. Getting their products through regulatory emissions >> >> testing did give them a bit of religion. >> >> >> >> I still remember laying out PCBs using red and blue tape. >> >> >> >> From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mark Radabaugh >> >> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 9:09 AM >> >> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> >> >> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: EE Consultant >> >> >> >> Yep - I’m qualified to answer some things and would be totally lost on >> >> others. EE has become a huge field with many many disciplines. >> >> >> >> And good luck finding an analog circuit guy anymore ;-) >> >> >> >> Mark >> >> >> >> >> >> On Feb 26, 2019, at 9:56 AM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Analog? Digital? Even with those there tend to be specialties like >> >> emissions, safety, PLD/ASIC design, microprocessor/microcontroller, >> >> RF, etc. Or do you need a generalist? >> >> >> >> From: AF <[email protected]> On Behalf Of >> >> [email protected] >> >> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 8:33 AM >> >> To: AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> >> >> Subject: [AFMUG] OT: EE Consultant >> >> >> >> Having an issue with a circuit design, anyone know a good electrical >> >> engineer they can >> >> recommend? >> >> -- >> >> AF mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> AF mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> >> -- >> >> AF mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> >> >> >> -- >> >> AF mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> > >> > -- >> > AF mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> >> >> >> -- >> - Forrest >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- - Forrest -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- AF mailing list [email protected] http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com
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