DC-DC Step updown 2.5V-15V to 3.3V

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Official specifications: I got it from Ebay dealer: memolines

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Measurements

This chapter only contains a few of the measurement, click here to see all

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The lowest input voltage the converter will work at is 3.1V, at 3V it do not work. This may be related to the enable pin.

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Increasing the input voltage to 4V changes the efficiency a bit at higher currents.

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At 12V input the efficiency is higher at high current and lower at low current.

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It works nicely with input voltage from 3.1V up to 14.5V with a 100mA load.

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At higher current the efficiency is fairly low with low input voltage.

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Power consumption varies with input voltage, it looks like the boost converter may kick in at slightly above 5V.

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With a fairly low load the output noise is low.

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But increase the load and the noise will increase, this could probably be fixed with som capacitors.

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Increasing the input voltage will reduce the noise.

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Turning power on off works fine with load, at higher load there may be some oscillations during turn-on/off.

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Turning on a load is handled with a minimal voltage drop.

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But at higher load there may be oscillations and some input and output capacitors is needed.

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The voltage will increase when a load is removed.

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I did the load test at 0.5A with 3.5V input, this was handled nicely.

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M1: 61.4°C, M2: 66.6°C, M3: 66.1°C, M4: 59.9°C, HS1: 76.0°C
The converter is warm, but not too warm, this means it can handle about 1W power loss.

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Increasing the input voltage to 9V and increasing the current to 0.6A do not present any problems.

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M1: 58.4°C, M2: 53.9°C, M3: 50.8°C, HS1: 61.3°C
Now the converter is in buck mode and the other inductor heats up, generally everything is a bit cooler here.



Closer look

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The module only uses a 6 pin chip. The output inductor is capacitive coupled to the input inductor and the chip only controls the input inductor.


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Good markings on the back.

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Conclusion

The module is not very powerful, but can be used to supply a 3.3V circuit from a LiIon battery, especially if it is fairly low power. I would use some extra capacitors with the module.


Notes