Hello,
I tried designing a 24VDC to 3.3VDC converter using the MC34063 and I can not figure out what I have done wrong. After assembling the circuit and blowing up 3 chips I decided to try and simulate it in LTSpice (first time really using spice), but I can't seem to get the simulation working.
I am using the model found in the second post of this thread:
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/beginners/simulate-mc34063-on-ltspice/ (it is ON Semi's model. I am actually using STM's chip currently.)
When I load the demo that comes in that zip I find it works ok, but when I tried building my circuit I get strange results. On the timing capacitor I am getting ~24V and no waveform with similar results on pretty much every other node in the path of the power. My schematic can be found here:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9135021/psuSim.asc . Looking at the demo schematic and mine side by side, besides some output differences and value differences I can't see anything wrong with mine.
I do realize that the values for my schematic may not be exactly optimal, but it still looks like it should work even if the output is very choppy/noisy. The best I got when I actually built the circuit was ~2V on the output, which I don't really understand.
Thank you!