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Re: Dave's power supply mods.
« Reply #100 on: March 08, 2012, 01:40:39 am »
In this weeks' The Amp Hour, Dave points out that the regulator chip is now available in a switched mode equivalent.

Just sayin'....


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Re: Dave's power supply mods.
« Reply #101 on: March 08, 2012, 06:07:37 am »
In this weeks' The Amp Hour, Dave points out that the regulator chip is now available in a switched mode equivalent.

Close, but no cigar.

I think I'll shoot a new video tomorrow revealing all.
Rev 3 is coming along nicely and I'm quite pleased with this version. I've eliminated some chips, lowered some costs, increased some functionality, and improved the build at the same time.

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Re: Dave's power supply mods.
« Reply #102 on: March 08, 2012, 07:20:58 am »
Just tried to hack up a USB power supply from a 5 volt, 2 amp switched mode wall slug. With USB D+ and D- floating it didn't work on two different tablets (HP and RIM). Then I followed Dave's power supply schematic which puts 2 volts on both with separate resistor dividers. That did not work either. The appropraite reference to look up is "USB dedicated charger". Seems that the USB folks standardized shorting D+ and D- together circa 2010. When I did that, it worked.
 

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Re: Dave's power supply mods.
« Reply #103 on: March 08, 2012, 07:47:30 am »
Just tried to hack up a USB power supply from a 5 volt, 2 amp switched mode wall slug. With USB D+ and D- floating it didn't work on two different tablets (HP and RIM). Then I followed Dave's power supply schematic which puts 2 volts on both with separate resistor dividers. That did not work either. The appropraite reference to look up is "USB dedicated charger". Seems that the USB folks standardized shorting D+ and D- together circa 2010. When I did that, it worked.

The iPhone/Pad/Pod is apparently different and requires those voltages.

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Re: Dave's power supply mods.
« Reply #104 on: March 08, 2012, 01:22:11 pm »
Just tried to hack up a USB power supply from a 5 volt, 2 amp switched mode wall slug. With USB D+ and D- floating it didn't work on two different tablets (HP and RIM). Then I followed Dave's power supply schematic which puts 2 volts on both with separate resistor dividers. That did not work either. The appropraite reference to look up is "USB dedicated charger". Seems that the USB folks standardized shorting D+ and D- together circa 2010. When I did that, it worked.

The iPhone/Pad/Pod is apparently different and requires those voltages.

Dave.

Yes, Apple aren't big on this whole standards thing.
 

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Re: Dave's power supply mods.
« Reply #105 on: March 08, 2012, 02:05:26 pm »
I thought the D+ D- tie was a change that allowed 1 A through USB for charging, rather than just 500 mA.  If those are not shorted, you are only allowed to pull 500 mA. 
 

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Re: Dave's power supply mods.
« Reply #106 on: March 08, 2012, 02:19:06 pm »
I thought the D+ D- tie was a change that allowed 1 A through USB for charging, rather than just 500 mA.  If those are not shorted, you are only allowed to pull 500 mA.

I believe that the specification for the USB standard, says that 500mA is the maximum allowed current through an USB port. But correct me if I am wrong :D
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Re: Dave's power supply mods.
« Reply #107 on: March 08, 2012, 04:08:13 pm »
500 mA was correct for a long time, but as time went by various useful things were added to the specification.

See http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs for the Battery Charging Specification documents.
 

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Re: Dave's power supply mods.
« Reply #108 on: March 08, 2012, 04:29:09 pm »
I thought the D+ D- tie was a change that allowed 1 A through USB for charging, rather than just 500 mA.  If those are not shorted, you are only allowed to pull 500 mA.

I believe that the specification for the USB standard, says that 500mA is the maximum allowed current through an USB port. But correct me if I am wrong :D

500mA is the maximum current a USB 2.0 port can supply to a device, unless it complies with the USB Battery Charging Specification. Shorting D+ and D- is required to indicate a dedicated charging port, which can supply up to 5A.

USB 3.0 includes support for up to 900mA at reduced voltages (making allowance for cheap, nasty cables, basically).
 

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Re: Dave's power supply mods.
« Reply #109 on: March 08, 2012, 04:34:31 pm »
I thought the D+ D- tie was a change that allowed 1 A through USB for charging, rather than just 500 mA.  If those are not shorted, you are only allowed to pull 500 mA.

I believe that the specification for the USB standard, says that 500mA is the maximum allowed current through an USB port. But correct me if I am wrong :D

"The great thing about standards are that there are so many to pick from." You were correct but as one standard supersedes another you are probably not correct now. I am familiar with SCSI standards and recent USB-3 external disks should be using UASP rather than the (dreadful) mass storage class (block mode). I'm still looking for the first example in a real product.
 

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Re: Dave's power supply mods.
« Reply #110 on: March 13, 2012, 10:35:07 am »
Part 11 is rendering now, the biggest and most rambling episode yet, at 1:15min!  :-[

The true original purpose of the PSU will be revealed, along with the substantial changes.

Damn, 1:15min, I must be insane. Now I'm thinking if there is somehow a way to split it?...

Dave.
 

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Re: Dave's power supply mods.
« Reply #111 on: March 13, 2012, 11:08:54 am »
Dave, just keep it like it is. People always can fast-forward !
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Re: Dave's power supply mods.
« Reply #112 on: March 13, 2012, 01:07:58 pm »
I am guessing 4xNiMh batteries and a boost convert.

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Re: Dave's power supply mods.
« Reply #113 on: March 13, 2012, 04:52:13 pm »
Part 11 is rendering now, the biggest and most rambling episode yet, at 1:15min!  :-[

The true original purpose of the PSU will be revealed, along with the substantial changes.

Damn, 1:15min, I must be insane. Now I'm thinking if there is somehow a way to split it?...

Dave.

love them as they are, so dont split it.

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Re: Dave's power supply mods.
« Reply #114 on: March 13, 2012, 08:33:07 pm »
Am I the only one that checked about a dozen times today, each time when I got back to my desk, for a new 1:15 monster video on YouTube?
 

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Re: Dave's power supply mods.
« Reply #115 on: March 13, 2012, 10:18:10 pm »
Am I the only one that checked about a dozen times today, each time when I got back to my desk, for a new 1:15 monster video on YouTube?

No  :)
 

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Re: Dave's power supply mods.
« Reply #116 on: March 14, 2012, 12:55:13 am »
Its getting on  for midday. I am thinking something may have gone horribly wrong with the video causing delays. :(

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Re: Dave's power supply mods.
« Reply #117 on: March 14, 2012, 01:49:45 am »
Yup, it's been hours and it hasn't appeared yet. I think Dave broke YouTube  8)
 

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Re: Dave's power supply mods.
« Reply #118 on: March 14, 2012, 01:59:46 am »
Nah .. after waking up this morning, Dave decided to scap and redo new version again, and going to re-shoot the vid ...

....j/k. :D

Seriously, I think he hasn't upload it yet and probably he was rendering it overnight.

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Re: Dave's power supply mods.
« Reply #119 on: March 14, 2012, 02:45:48 am »
I decided to try splitting into two, a hardware/case part, and the schematic part.
Plus I had to baby sit Sagan for half the day!

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Re: Dave's power supply mods.
« Reply #120 on: March 14, 2012, 09:18:47 am »
I decided to try splitting into two, a hardware/case part, and the schematic part.
Plus I had to baby sit Sagan for half the day!

Dave.
When can we expect the schematic part? I was looking forward to see it, but i like the system design aspect of this video.
Sagan, an electronic engineer in the making?
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Re: Dave's power supply mods.
« Reply #121 on: March 14, 2012, 10:12:46 am »
It STILL doesn't have Bluetooth!!?

It's got a socket with SPI interface, plug in anything you want!

Dave.
 

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Re: Dave's power supply mods.
« Reply #123 on: March 14, 2012, 10:03:55 pm »
To my thinking, Bluetooth makes more sense than Ethernet. I think Ethernet defeats the purpose of being battery powered and portable.

I would have liked to see the accuracy increase rather than decrease. It would be great to have 1mV and 1mA accuracy but i feel that is outside the scope of this project for now.

But thats just my 2 cents.

Regards
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Re: Dave's power supply mods.
« Reply #124 on: March 14, 2012, 10:23:39 pm »
To my thinking, Bluetooth makes more sense than Ethernet. I think Ethernet defeats the purpose of being battery powered and portable.

I would have liked to see the accuracy increase rather than decrease. It would be great to have 1mV and 1mA accuracy but i feel that is outside the scope of this project for now.

But thats just my 2 cents.

Regards

I agree, it'd be nice to figure out a way to either plug a Bluetooth or Ethernet module there.
 


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