Hey all,
Had to put the power supply to the side for a bit while i was away on work and waiting for parts to arrive. I got the boards back from JLC PCB and the quality is pretty good. I don’t have time yet to get the whole board assembled but I thought I would get the new power section up and running so I could do some load tests on the 5 volt rail.
The voltage is pretty solid throughout a wide input range as expected
5.11 volts with just the LED loading down the output at 2 mA or so. This drops to 4.99 Volts at the rated 500 mA and the switcher IC gets a bit on the warm side, but the diode I’m using is not exactly the correct one as per recommended in the data sheet so I think there is some loss there. I am still waiting on the correct diode as well as some of the digital components