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9 V to 12 V step-up converter to drive load between 10-100 mA, and no load

I'm working on stepping up the voltage from a 9 V, 150 mA power supply to 12 V, with a load of 10-100 mA and moments where there's no load. I have implemented something similar with this IC ...
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simple DCDC Step Up converter mystery

I'm designing a self sustaining guitar that has 6 amplifiers onboard and runs on a li-ion pack. Power draw is a about 2.5A when on "full power" and I decided to make my own step up converter ...
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DC Step-up Boost Voltage regulator (High Ampere)

I’m working on a project, where I want to go from 5 Lithium-ion cells in series, to 5 Lithium-ion cells in parallel, for versatility purposes i.e. in time, I want to be able to change the output ...
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DIY 3 V -16 V, 300 watt boost converter for ultracapacitors

I am trying to build a power supply for a portable Tesla coil project using 6 × 3000 farad supercapacitors in series (16.2 V @ 500 F). I am trying to maximize the usability of the supercapacitor ...
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Designing a 6V --> 40V step up converter [closed]

I need to design a step up converter with the following requierements: Vin = 6V - 8.4V Vout = 35 - 40V, Iout = 2.5A Could anyone give me some insights on how to ...
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TPS63070 buck-boost not bucking or boosting correctly

Can someone check my layout? I am using TPS63070 buck-boost regulator and I would like to get 4.7 V output at TP12 but, I am getting 11.5 V which is wrong and I don't know why. Base on the Datasheet ...
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Dedicated li-ion step up drivers

I have a design which will include the optional use case of boosting up to 7V from a li-ion battery. I can't seem to find any drivers dedicated to li-ion for this? There seem to be a few buck boost ...
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Can I use dc-to-dc converter to step up voltage of 20 3.7V 3Ah lithium-ion batteries connected in parallel?

I want to use this 3.7V 40Ah powerbank to power my e bike's 48V hub motor. So would it be a bad idea to step up 3.7V all the way up to 48V? Would there be a huge Ah loss?
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Is it possible to drive a 12 VDC motor with an XL6009?

I am a beginner in robotics. I am planning to drive a 12 VDC motor from a Raspberry Pi 2 B. I know the Pi does not have the capacity to drive such a device, so I am using an L293D motor driver to ...
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