MrOnion's OnionBoard - GP IO/Power PCB (requires CPU board)

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Re: VW Golf -89 Street/Trackday Car with ELMicro CardS12

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Congratulations, but let's save the chatter about that for the real thread ;-)

Neat picture! DIY to the core/for life! :-)

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Re: VW Golf -89 Street/Trackday Car with ELMicro CardS12

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viewtopic.php?f=55&t=2145 < this one, this one!!! :-)
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Re: VW Golf -89 Street/Trackday Car with ELMicro CardS12

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I have done some driving with the onionboard and so far it has been working ok. A little setback happened as I used the board with a separate mains power supply at home and overheated the regulator a few times. This is most probably caused by oscillation that is happening because of too small capacitors and/or capacitors being too far from the regulator. The home supply might have given some voltage spikes that drove the regulator insane as I haven't had any problems in the car.

To correct the issue I tweaked the proto pcb a little. I removed the 0.1uF ceramic cap after the regulator and soldered it straight to the regulator legs. I also lied to you a little (blog text) and had an 10uF cap after the reg (datasheet said it should be enough) so I installed a 22uF cap where the ceramic was. If I still get problems 47uF would be the next choice.

So far no more overheating. I also changed the pcb layout so that the caps are near the regulator as possible. This made me use surface mount caps (as Andy already suggested earlier ;)) and rotate the regulator 180 degrees. Also the solder pads for the power supply cables are arranged differently. So no major changes.

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So, if any of you power supply wizards see any false magic being practised here please give me a shout ;).

Need to order a few boards soon as I want to make another ECU for the FreeEMS and keep that in the car.
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Re: VW Golf -89 Street/Trackday Car with ELMicro CardS12

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Hi MrOnion,

Do you have a list of specific manufacturer's (or distributor's) part numbers for the components you plan on using for the power supply circuitry? Thanks
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Re: VW Golf -89 Street/Trackday Car with ELMicro CardS12

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Hi TonyS,

The regulators that I use are:

Micrel MIC29150-5.0BT
http://www.micrel.com/_PDF/mic29150.pdf
or
National LM2940CT-5
http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/lm2940-n.pdf

10/22uF Tantalum caps are from Vishay:
http://www.vishay.com/docs/40002/293d.pdf
Package is size E, 35V and ESR is about 0.6ohm.

100nF (0.1uF) Ceramics from Murata:
http://psearch.murata.com/capacitor/pro ... A01%23.pdf
Package is 1206, 25V, NP0.

I guess NP0 versions are better for this application than X7R:s?

The polyfuses RXE020/030 are from Tyco and the MOV is a S20K20 from Epcos.
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Re: MrOnion's OnionBoard - GP IO/Power PCB (requires CPU boa

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Ok,

Did a final change to the vegetableboard and reorganized the solderpads so molex minifit connectors can be used if desired...

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Few boards are now ordered so will see how they look when they arrive... :)
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:-o oh oh oh!!! :-) :-D
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Re: MrOnion's OnionBoard - GP IO/Power PCB (requires CPU boa

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image link is broken :-S
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Re: MrOnion's OnionBoard - GP IO/Power PCB (requires CPU boa

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ok they are all working now? weird?
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