{"id":5652,"date":"2020-02-10T14:36:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T14:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/?p=5652"},"modified":"2020-02-10T14:36:58","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T14:36:58","slug":"dil8-boost-converter-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/dil8-boost-converter-design\/","title":{"rendered":"DIL8 Boost converter design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"460\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/dilup.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5653\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I threw together a quick boost converter with a DIL layout to use in some of my prototypes. There are a number of small step up converter modules available, but I wanted to design my own. I wanted to use parts that could be sourced from Digikey, or Aliexpress (at lower cost). I also wanted to be able to select the output voltage between 1.8 and 5v. So I threw together this design that uses the TPS61071. Will see how well it works.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Kicad files and gerbers are in <a href=\"http:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/boostconv.tar.gz\">this<\/a> tarball. I will likely post again once I&#8217;ve received and revised the design&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I threw together a quick boost converter with a DIL layout to use in some of my prototypes. There are a number of small step up converter modules available, but I wanted to design my own. I wanted to use parts that could be sourced from Digikey, or Aliexpress (at lower cost). I also wanted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1RRoU-1ta","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5655,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652\/revisions\/5655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/41j.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}