With Just $0.50 Components I turned Garbage Products into GOLD!
Vložit
- čas přidán 15. 05. 2024
- Sign up for Keysight Live from the Lab here: www.keysight.com/us/en/events...
Try the world's most trusted PCB design software, Altium Designer with 365, for free and 25% off your purchase: www.altium.com/yt/greatscott!
Previous video: • Using the 4G Network t...
AliExpress video: • I tried finding Hidden...
Capacitor video: • How to choose the righ...
Inductor video: • How to choose the righ...
Filter video: • Does a DIY Audio Cross...
You can get the mentioned products and capacitors here: (affiliate links)
Power Supply: s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_Dmz...
5V UPS: s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DcQ...
Mini Boost Converter: s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_DCw...
Capacitors: www.mouser.de/ProductDetail/S...
www.mouser.de/ProductDetail/S...
Facebook: / greatscottlab
Twitter: / greatscottlab
Instagram: / great.scott.lab
TikTok: / greatscottlab
Discord: / discord
Support me for more videos: www.patreon.com/GreatScott?ty=h
Websites which were shown during the video:
www.prodigit.com/show/how-to-...
www.meanwelldirect.co.uk/glos...
cdn.hackaday.io/files/1829407...
www.ti.com/lit/an/snva871/snv...
www.ti.com/seclit/ml/slup384/...
Thanks to Keysight for sponsoring this video.
0:00 The Problem of my AliExpress Products
1:16 Intro
2:04 Why is Noise/Ripple Bad?
3:39 How to Measure Noise Correctly
4:32 5V UPS Noise Problem
5:46 Solution 1: Post Regulation
7:51 Solution 2: Component Improvement
8:39 Capacitor Replacement
9:55 Other Component Problems
10:49 Mini Boost Converter Fix - Věda a technologie
Mad props for clearing up the mistake you made in the other video.
I am always open to admitting mistakes :-)
@@greatscottlab Didnt check it, but probably an edit of the previous video would be quite useful too. Not everyone in the future is going to watch both
Ich habe das gleiche Teil in Verwendung und mich extrem über das Ergebnis gewundert. Ich habe das Netzteil analysiert, da wir Industrie Netzteile suchen, die einen kleinen Formfaktor haben, programmierbar sind und ca 500W bei ca 50V können. Das Netzteil kam in die engere Auswahl. Das Ding ist wirklich gut, da können andere echt einpacken. Das einzige, es hat kein DIN Rail.
That was both an honourable and brave move, much appreciated! I was thinking to get one of those PSUs, but decided not to when you mentioned the output noise.
I've got this in my cart at Ali so now i can buy without doubts
In my opinion, videos like this are some of the most powerful for all the DIY hobbyists. Like me, most of us have no formal training in electronics, but this video gives us very relevant reasons to try and wrap our heads around complex and somewhat arbitrary concepts. Having a broad understanding of what might cause noise or ripple on a power supply / buck-boost converter is in every DIY hobbyist's best interest. Please make more content like this!
The reasons for the component issue may be the lack of knowledge of circuit design, or they just wanted to get it out in a cheap and fast manner. No matter the issues, this video provides a workaround to this issue, and it makes the circuit useful. This the reason that I like videos like this.
Maybe they were using whatever came into the factory as well, no need to bother with a design you can't reliably manufacture.
Even simpler. It’s not a decision an engineer would want to make, these are usually management decisions. It goes like:
Engineer: Here is a stripped down minimum count and cost design like you wanted
Management: it’s too expensive, cut something!
Engineer: But it’s already stripped, it’s not going to work properly!
Management: Here you go, make this cheaper because the last guy wouldn’t
Unpaid intern: you got it boss!
I doubt it. Something like this is quite fundamental. If the capacitor is 50cents then that is almost a 15% markup and they are competing with other low cost manufacturers. Adding in that cap will just make consumers look at both products, think they are basically the same, and then buy the cheaper alternative anyway.
I suspect if the manufacturers have even tested their designs before putting them into production.
@@qazwsx000xswzaq they know full well.
It REALLY grinds my gears when a product gets ruined by bean counter measures. "Oh we saved a few cents on this device!" "But its complete crap now?" "Who cares? We get money!"
That's typical Chinese mentality...
@@haydenc2742 Not exclusive to chinese stuff.
This is consumers mentality. People don't care. People want low prices.
"Who cares? We get money!"
Welcome to Ultra Capitalism...
@@Prophes0r Applies to communists as well. Who cares, we all get paid the same amount of money!
You typically do not put large MLCCs on the output of a power supply because when they fail, they fail with a burn
so you use small ceramic caps paired with low ESR caps
I am curious about your answer, so I get deep into it, there is an article from TDK, called"Guide to replacing an electrolytic capacitor with a MLCC", it recommends to replace with MLCC due to their low ESR, long life and small package, but one should be careful about their capacitance will change with temparature and voltage applied to them, also some ICs are intended for electrolytic capacitor, so it might cause some unwanted feedback with MLCC.
Also there is a youtube video discuss about fail of MLCC called "EEVblog #1037 - Solving Ceramic Capacitor Cracking
". Large value MLCC can be cracked physically easily, and it might get shorted when that happened, I guess that's why modern hign-end PC motherboard still using the method you said, rather than pure MLCC method.
I was hoping you would do a video like this. Taking cheap aliexpress or ebay electronics that are ALMOST good enough and then cheaply modifying them to fix or improve their performance. You should make more of these.
YOH - Chinese labor is getting expensive, between their demographic loss and "OUR" re-shoring the supply chain - enjoy while u got it. GOT DAT ??
Ah the classic current loop antenna, that’s why you were picking up all that noise. Any loop will act as a current antenna. And any length of copper, will act as a monopole if adjacent to a ground plane or bipole if connect to a center point. Good luck.
People who liked this also liked working with RF designs, where furrowing your brow rotates you on the smith chart.
Though the change he saw was huge and probably this is also telling for the EMC of those little PCBs.
That's why you should always use your devices inside a hermetically sealed bunker surrounded by 10cm copper plate, 1.2m lead plate, and 3m of grounded-steel-reinforced concrete. Everything should be made with pre-nuclear-test materials to reduce self-radiation.
The bunker should also be carved into the base of a mountain, or built into the sea-bed with at least 200m of water overhead if you want to block those pesky cosmic rays.
You still need to account for all the Neutrinos that can still easily get through, but luckily those usually don't interact with your electronics if they can get through all your other defenses.
@@Prophes0r Just build your swimming pool over your bunker.... ppfff...
@@hugegamer5988 nothing like carving your own ground leads to get the ground loop as short as possible
Man, it's crazy how much you can accomplish pretty cost-effectively if you understand electronics. It's something I'm trying to learn, but it's not easy for me to understand electricity and how everything relates to each other. Thanks for the videos, they're helpful in slowly getting more understanding of things.
This is true for anything, from auto mechanics, plumbers, carpenters, yada yada. Outside of basic volts, amps, Ohm's Law, etc, electronics are going to require a fairly deep amount of study/work before you're going to be able to figure much out not too mention fixing a borked design. I've decided to spend the extra 25% or so for something thats generally been shown to be good vs trying to eke out the cheapest component/parts. If I'm trying to cobble something together, the last thing I want to do is be wondering if some pre-made component is even doing what I bought it too do.
Don't worry about some of these things. The higher the frequency the more electronics starts to look like black magic. That's even to people who have degrees in it or similar fields.
@@arthurmoore9488lmao, for real. I work in automation and the amount of troubleshooting I have to do with highly sensitive equipment near robots, or other high frequency loads is aggravating. Sometimes the shield isn’t grounded well enough, sometimes the shield is too small, sometimes it’s grounded too well and creates a ground loop that effectively acts like an antenna that picks up RF noise. Part of me loves it, part of me hates it. Haha
Man, I've been an electronics hobbyist since the late 1980's, and I'm always surprised at how little I know. Just keep tinkering. And when you get a chance to use an oscilloscope, seize the opportunity
You answered it yourself- to save 50c
1. To save money
2. The only people that are going to care/notice are people like us.
3. The people like us know how to fix the problem.
My guess.
Keep up the good work bud.
Care? No.
The only people who are likely to KNOW why their thing fails, and also choose not to buy from the same supplier, are us.
This is simply capitalism at work. It is more profitable to sell more of a thing that is cheap-but-bad than it is to sell something slightly more expensive-but-better, even accounting for the returns. And since you change the company name/registration for every product, you don't care about repeat business.
It's a cynical take, but this really is built-in to the business plan nowadays.
@@Prophes0r no need to bring politics into this
@@jonatan_leandoer96 A. It's economics.
B. Politics is in everything. It is inescapable, and the desire to escape it is part of the problem.
Cost is its own spec. If you want higher performance for your use case, be prepared to pay more. If the performance of the cheap part is acceptable, you can pay less for something that satisfies you.
ETA: And no, it's not "capitalism," it's scarcity. When resources are limited, it doesn't make sense to spend them on performance you don't need. You need Star Trek replicators to escape this, not a replacement political economy.
@@jdotoz Managing scarcity is the PRIMARY job of any economic system. It is WHY we have economies.
(Ultra)Capitalism is a BAD economic system because the way we are using it now is tuned almost exclusively to "make money number go up" instead of ACTUALLY managing resource scarcity and distribution.
So yes, the problem IS capitalism, because the SYSTEM punishes you for making things well if it costs less to make them worse.
None of the economic systems we use now can handle short-term products that break prematurely.
They can't self-regulate when there is too much turbulence.
That ringing on the switch node of the inductor can be suppressed with a snubber network and is easily missed, this I know from first hand experience! Also sometimes adding a beefy cap can make things worse, Mach1Designs did an EMC video on the caps and is very helpful in locating noise and killing it.
i love people who owned up their mistakes and correct them!
Great walk-through of the process as always
Thanks for sharing your experience and solutions with all of us 👍 😀
I never knew to check temperature to check out components in a design to see if good or bad. Only to look for a broken component(s) when fixing. Maybe they stole an incomplete design from someone else? Lazy? Possibly just stupid? 🎉
I am still learning. I bought an old radio/cassette player and a radio clock alarm that both work to study on. I will use your temperature trick to maybe improve them. Thank you for giving us a great channel with interesting projects.
Thanks for the feedback :-) And you are welcome 🙂 I love to make this show.
Your devices were probably made in the 90s or earlier, so I wouldn't count on them having the same trashy engineering as modern devices from AliExpress. Good luck with your endeavors though.
High frequencies tend to cause caps & mosfets to heat, for different reasons, but the solution is pretty much the same: lower the resistance. Low ESR caps have much lower resistance, and 'bigger' mosfets have lower RDSon, which is essentially the resistance that causes most of their heat.
It's always funny to see a low-tech troubleshooting technique on high frequency IC's. Elegance in it's simplicity.
Seconded. The diode temp probe is a precise method of spotting an overheating device. Slower but many times better than a finger touch. I'm impressed by your thoroughness.
The tip at 9:56 about measuring temperatures to determine if reactive components have appropriate parameters was really helpful. That point alone made this video valuable.
You are the example of someone who not only passes his exams but also completely understands what he has studied. Good work 👏👏👏
This was a very interesting and also useful video!
I found especially interesting the bandwidth limit on the oscilloscope. Can you make a video to explain why it's limited during official measurements, the implications about having strong peaks beyond that bandwidth limit and how to absorb them if so desired (I know this part: ferrites rings/beads around the wire).
Thanks!
9:47 your forgetting that at the volume they're producing these at the increase in BOM cost is even less at under 0.19 EUR / piece on orders of 1000. Probably also a slight price decrease at 10k and 25k as well. Therefore at volume this is likely no more than 0.15 - 0.17 EUR in parts, and the lower quality parts they're using probably cost 0.08-0.11 EUR, so we're talking about them pinching literal pennies to not have a better product.
True :-) That would make this story even sadder though.
@@greatscottlab yeah unfortunately so. Though I know BigClive in his teardowns of electronics like this from china on aliexpress or otherwise mentions that they tend to have resistors and capacitors overdriven for their intended purpose for whatever reason.
Like literally around 0.08€ savings. That's really sad. Someone should contact the manufacturer and ask them to reconsider their decision.
@@pappaflammyboi5799 Dont forget about what the product itself cost spending 0,08€ on a 1€ board is a huge increase in price.
For most stuff you dont need that clean power, so it is good practice to not build them in.
@@jonasstahl9826 8% is a huge increase in price? Ya, not really.
Awesome! Ordered the power supply. Thank you so much for testing 👌
You're welcome ;-)
Thank you Scott I have that exact same boost converter now I have to just add that capacitor in parallel to my output terminal. Love your videos 😍😍
You have quite an assortment of nice tools, that and the knowledge to use them properly makes all the difference
Great video! It's amazing to me how often a single capacitor can fix big issues in electronics 😁
@GreatScott!
In the video (11:11)
you say "2.2uF", the link goes to a 22uF capa... What is right? Or do i just not understand? Thank you!
Very clearly presented information, even I have understood this with my limited knowledge. Love electronic and what can be done with it. Thanks so much.
Thank you for this video, especially the info on how to check for noise on the DC supply using an oscilloscope.
I love that hot plate for component removal at the end.
Congratulations from Belgium and thank you for sharing.
The electronic load might also introduce some noise, would be better to measure with a pure resistive load.
Yes this. Might be noisy as hell.
I used a pile of old 1ohm 50W resistors to make a grid on an aluminum plate. You can jumper quite a few different loads and can dissipate lots of heat.
How long until the video where he adds a component to the electronic load?
Quality Stuff! Thank you!
BTW, good on ya, for showing the error in probing technique! It is *such* a common issue that it's kind of like "is the power plugged in" question for oscilloscope AEs !
i liked how you took the images of the components from the circuit and put them in a sketch
Thanks :-)
Thank you very much for the video. How could you make the UPS not charge the battery at such a high voltage? For example, charge it only at 4.1v to increase battery life. Thank you so much
Great video -- your educational content is phenomenal!
I was struggling so hard to find the right keywords to google this exact problem… THANK YOU❤
My guess for why they didn't go the slightly more expensive route is sourcing. This is all guesswork mind you, but if they produce in house, it's only costing them pennies per. One thing I've noticed about Ali is many vendors offer the same product at different prices, so that would explain why they want to keep the price low...sort of a lowest bidder thing. Lastly, the 50 cent price you quoted is the retail price, so it would slightly increase their profit margin as they'd be paying wholesale. 😊
For a lot of stuff on Ali/AE, there are one or two companies making gajillions of these as OEM-Contract. Some resellers want different color silkscreen, some spec differrent values for some components to get a lower BOM, etc. Chinese business looks at cost cutting as the primary goal bar none. Doesn't matter if it impact the specs of these design, unless/until they are called on it and IF they can be forced to pay some sort of remuneration. It is always worth it to keep value engineering a design/product which leads to higher profit, until/unless they are forced to remunerate. There is not a lot of care/f*cks given for 'Reputation' as you see from Japanese, EU, Noram companies.
Talk to some engineers from China, and they will all admit it. They don't like seeing their work cut down to out of spec anymore than anyone else.
The side ground pin in the oscilloscope probe is a very nice solution. A spring loaded measuring pin would still improve measuring a shivering hand (a so called test pin "needle" for production beds).
Thanks for the feedback :-)
Respect for owning up to your mistake and educating others! Thank you!
Honestly, if it's a $0.50 component, that's why they didn't include it. They're shaving pennies off of the price of these things and producing them in huge numbers with tiny profits to stay in business. A device that is 90% effective is good enough from that viewpoint.
They might just do that now. We are constantly reinventing the wheel and working towards making something as efficient as possible. Thanks for the videos you put out man it has significantly added to my progression of circuit design.
Great video again! 👍
When dealing with digital circuits, I rarely find myself having to deal with noise problems. Noise only becomes a factor when I'm working with analogue circuits. I often use a linear voltage regulator in combination with a low pass filter(LC or RC with low-value resistor) and of course decent decoupling for every chip. And it rarely stops there, one must consider whether circuit isolation is necessary to prevent current loops, as well as determine if guard traces should be implemented(for example an opamp circuit with high impedance load), etc.
Thanks Jeremy❤🎉❤
Need a video on how to design a LPF for a switching converter.
For the UPS I simply replaced the 2x220 uF capacitors with a 22 uF tantalum low ESR and a 470uF electrolytic as recommended by the chip data sheet. That cleaned up the noise. I used 1x probe and attenuation.
Can i use 2x 4700uF 16v on the output instead? I only have these at hand or the 10v 1000uF ones. 😅
I think it is because of cost.
Like the MT3608 boost converter, here in Indonesia it listed around 5200 to 6500 IDR (0.32€ to 0.37€). By adding the better ceramic capacitor priced 0.5€, imagine how much it affecting the price.
For me, the initial design is more than enough, reminding the price is dirt cheap. Unless for specific reason I need to modify, like the one you tell about creating negative voltage, I'm set my expectation according to the price I paid 😅
Well, a 20% 22uF MLCC costs 500 IDR (0.03 EUR) on Indonesia's Tokoijo, and the manufacturer would have been able to source it for cheaper. So it's not an excuse.
Nice, I have a project where I need this ups, thanks a lot, I wasn't looking for this at this exact moment but it just what I needed
I ordered the parts from Mouser, so now the two UPS devices going to get the upgrade. I even have 5 of those boost converters to that I will do the same with.
Thanks for this great fix video. Great stuff as always. Now I just need to find a cheap-ass oscilloscope, so I can test other electronics I have lying around.
Wow! Great job, and a very useful and informative video.
That's a wonderful example of what a difference good capacitors make. I'm amazed that the short probe ground wire makes such a difference. Have you tried measuring at 20MHz with the ground wire?
It might be partially because it was so close to the unshielded switching inductor.
I always see keysight sponsoring many electronics chanbels but it would be nice if you could make a video how it looks inside one of their mesuring devices (maybe you could get a broken one or something from keysight from their rma or something like that )
Thanks, I use those and don't have the knowledge or time to dive into this like you do. That was extremely helpful, since the fix doesn't require more than basic skills :)
This is actually such good content. I love learning this on my own even though i’m a CS student
Excellent content as always,, Thank You for sharing .. Cheers :)
One of the 1st things our teachers told us at LTI is the difference between an expensive VCR and a cheap VCR is a 5 cent component. Like they will use a 1/4 watt resistor to dissipate a 1/4 watt of power rather than using a half watt resistor. Everything today is built down to a price, its the race to the bottom which got us lots of cheap junk.
Fascinating stuff! Thanks for all the tips, dude! 😃
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Thanks and you are welcome :-)
Thank u Sir for sharing! Salute!
8:14 i love how you put the images of components next to the schematic components -- for those of us trying to take self learning electronics seriously, it massively helps our brains put to mind the components as if they were legos (but the various values of each 'lego' is like the lego color). Next after looking at this for a while as a reference during test building on our own, the schematic components begin to fit like a catalog in our brains before we even realize it. I hope i not sounding too nuts but this really works for my brain very exceleratredly, ty for this idea and i hope you and others do that much more often -- even if just once before you do the red pen work on the circuit would be a big help ^_^ p.s. i have loved your work for last many years, ty for keep doing your channel ! 😀
Great Scott!! You guys are so smart! I am amazin...
thanks for all elctronic helping video and contents,good luck
Great Scott makes a mistake: false noise signals
I make a mistake: *MAGIC SMOKE ESCAPES*
😂
To reduce heat dissipation of lineal regulators consider using an LDO that has only 0.1 to 0.5V drop, and use a lower input voltage :)
Was just getting ready to send some Gerber files to the PCB place, now I have to make a few capacitor changes first. AAAARGH!...more work but I'm thankful for the knowledge!
I get to Deutschland again I owe you a bier!...Prost my friend!
Great, Scott! Amazing analysis!!! Thanks!
Glad you liked it ;-)
Do you have another link for the 5V UPS, please? The one you supplied seems to be dead!
'If your PCB design is garbage' - had me in stitches, hope the sellers of that circuit see this video and take note!
Hi, GreatScott what's the device with the pcu fan red, can we test battery capacity with? Thx for your answer !!
I have a bunch of those same buck converters that I'd like to fix, but the links provided are for a 22uf and 1uf capacitor, but the video mentions a 2.2 uf on the output? So which one is correct to fix the final small buck converter? The 22uf link or the 2.2uf mentioned in the video?
Thanks in advance for your time to answer.
I was confused when you mentioned the very high pp noise value in the prev video cz I have this power supply and it works according to specs and the manufacturer is very keen on improving their products.
I also assumed noise pickup. Assumed adding a very small resistive load would fix it.
Thanks for revisiting the test!
I learned a lot in this video, thank you!
Hi, would you replace the same capacitors for the 12v UPS board?
Hi, thanks for the video, just want to ask: what is the size of the booster capacitor that you use? the 1206 or the 1210?, thanks
Is there any video or explanation how you can cool something down by adding more capacitors
Hi Scott, I was wondering if you could do a video to show how to connect a VFD with a single phase capacitor start motor. Thank you
About the UPS:
Is it possible, that there are no MLCCs at the output? The elkos have a too high esr to filter the output voltage. It could be worth a try, if there is a suitable footprint close
just ordered a few of those ceramic caps, i do like using those nifty things. Do you reckon it would work on a custom PCB that is based on the MT3606?
I always try not to use the GND spring, it is a bit of a pain. But yeah it makes a big difference for noise and "high" frequency signals
Hi, which (de)solderplate you use at the end of your video?
Great video! What is the name/brand of hotplate you are using (as seen at the end of the video)?
amazing, as always 😍😍
You can also solve the issue with low esr electrolytic capacitors
What's the names of the type's of test probe's used first at @2:33, the one in the background it pushes open and hooks against the wire lead and then closes to make a sure it cant short on anything..
And then again a different style tester probe with the positive in the center and then a ground lead coming down from the side, @4:34 ?
Thanks!
I bought some of the small MT3608 boost converters
and i also measured some pretty bad noise at higher output currents. Adding a 1,5uF ceramic capacitor and the problem is fixed. The ceramic caps I used literally cost 6 cents per piece
Actually ended up using one of the smaller ones for an amp, and had added a larger capacitor to the output to support the bass. good to know it's probably helping with noise as well.
Can you make a video about the D3806 voltage regulator? Is improvement needed?
I gave you a sub. probably wont notice, but it's so eye opening. Your entire channel.
Oh interesting - I have some AliExpress modules with caps that get hot. USB-C power modules I use in power banks. Is it a pretty safe upgrade to just replace the electrolytic output filter caps with multilayer ceramic caps with the same uF value? Is there value or risk in going with more uF?
There is a reason why I always use a high quality 100nF capacitors over Voltage rails and most of the times in parallel over bigger caps. You can clearly see a lot of garbage, aka noise, when not doing so. For reducing RF that these switched things can cause also use ferrit to stop interference. Some of these Chinese pcb's are really well designed and then you order another one and measurements are different. Bad capacitors, change in pcb layout to make it cheaper. A bit of a lottery.
That last pcb, released some smoke on those. They will go into self destruct like you said, but I still like them a lot.
Oftentimes, these boards are based around one key component, i.e. the regulator IC. If you were to reverse engineer the board and compare the resulting schematics to the IC's reference design, you'll find probably little to no differences. And very often, the designers doesn't really pay much attention to the textual parts of the datasheet that explains the values and different usage cases, or just use one calculation for all their product runs (i.e. the same capacitors for fixed 3.3V, 5V, 12V and variable variants of the board). Also, the reason they won't add it is cost and availability. They already most likely have tens of thousands of cheap small mlcc caps around, adding one to the output won't change the BOM cost by much, but also doesn't have to affect the output in the desirable way, or even hurt it.
Thank you for showing us this
I actually got the UPS from the last finding hidden gems video and it works really well
Glad to hear it :-)
@@greatscottlab I did too. Can the same value caps be used when the output is 12V?
I also want to know. I bought 2 of each, 5V, 9V and 12V, for alarm/cameras and just in case. One seller has it for 4$ each and there was also 1$ from 5$ coupon for playing (and losing) in Go go match game, but this promo ended. So they were really cheap.
@@oyvindrepvik I think so
Well mt3608 module comes with 10uF MLCC on the output already, just wondering how does 2.2uf additional cap could make such difference in noise reduction ?
this explains issues i ws having using one of these cheap dc to dc converters as the supply for a little analog computer i was building. it never integrated right and clearly didn't have a stable input.
When switching to the MLCCs, why the smaller capacitance? Is it a limitation of what's available or do you not need as much capacitance when the other properties are better?
hi,
what was the connector used to measure noise ? i has the same issue and now i realis that it might be that i am measuring it wrong
You have my respect that you publicly admit a mistake👍 true engener
Mostly anything where you don't want noise (not audio/frequently changing output) you usually just have to add a capacitor to level the voltage
this helped me, thanks
A lot of noise I deal with in electronics is 60 hertz noise because all the power supplies use a iron core transformer instead of a ferrite core transformer and the reason why that makes a difference is because all iron core transformers run at 50 or 60 hertz well ferrite transformers run at higher frequencies. And 60 hertz noise is very noticeable if you're using inductors and highly sensitive electronics
amazing content. thanks!
Yeah I've been trying to measure a gas sensor, and I've found that every USB power supply I plug my NodeMCU board into produces a different result on the gas sensor. An Apple iPad charger makes the analog measurement noisy. A Samsung charger makes the measurement get cut in half. It really makes a huge difference in my circuit.
Hi,
Can anyone tell me which value of capacitor we need to use for which application?
Thanks
I would imagine the capacitor on the MT3608 boost converter is not included as it would reduce efficiency slightly and maybe in most cases isn't functionally needed? I could be wrong.
I too have burned a few MT3608's...they do seem to be unreliable.
At 11:09 you say add a 2.2 microfarad ceramic capacitor but the links in the description are for different ones so I am unsure which is correct.
@GreatScott! In your video you say you used a 2.2 uF capacitor but in the description you linked a 22 uF capacitor.
Which one is correct?
I say 22uf because his mlcc's are really big in physical size.