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      💬 The Harvester: ultimate power supply for the Raybeacon DK
      OpenHardware.io • power supply usb charger solar raytrails mppt teg • • openhardware.io  

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      NeverDie

      @NeverDie said in The Harvester: ultimate power supply for the Raybeacon DK: Edit: This guy found another couple of possibilities as to what the E50D chip might be: https://www.electroschematics.com/pfm-module-circuit-surgery/ I have the same board as this guy. I removed the LED and resistor because they are on the input side, so they are almost useless anyway. For a board such as this, with a promised 0.9v startup voltage on the input side and a promised 5v on the output side, they really should have been attached to the output, not the input, to show roughly when it is that the board is producing useable output. At a 20mv "keep alive" input voltage, the input measures 0.5ma using a uCurrent Gold. That means the keep alive energy is 10 microWatts. Offhand, for the application we've been discussing on this thread, I suspect that number is too high to be practically useful, because at only 20mv input we'd be collecting far less than 0.5ma current from a tiny panel. At least now we know.
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      💬 Solar Energy Harvester
      OpenHardware.io • step-up converter boost boost converter charger solar mppt booster energy harvesting ltc3105 mppc boosting charging • • openhardware.io  

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      Right you are. Live and learn (even at 81), and I even learned a new word -'vias.' Thanks.