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Low power circuit design for powering an e-paper display

This is a follow up to my last question on Low power circuit design for turning an LDO on/off at specific voltage levels, where I wanted to find a low power way to turn an LDO on/off at specific ...
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Low power circuit design for turning an LDO on/off at specific voltage levels

I am designing a low power circuit that uses the TPS61023DRLR for energy harvesting, charging a 1.5F ...
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Turn off below a certain voltage

Hi I have a small Uc taking samples and sending results powered by a simple solar panel and supercap to get it through most of the night. It works but early in the morning when power is just enough to ...
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Limiting peak power consumption with energy bank

I have a POE splitter capable of delivering a maximum of 1A at 12V. This device is intended to power a Raspberry PI 3B+ and a 3.5 inch hard drive. The Pi gets the 5V from a DC to DC step down ...
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get 100mA pulses from 20mA source to charge li-ion

I have only 20mA in my circuit and after trying to charge a battery with TP4056 it doesn't work. TP4056 is a linear charger so I need to try with LTC4002 or even better to improve efficiency. Anyway, ...
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Using Supercapacitor Along With Battery [closed]

The circuit seen in an existing meter I am currently working on a smart meter solution(low power), where I am planning to add a supercapacitor to help the battery in supplying peak current surges ...
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Low power device with high current peak

I'm creating power supply for controller that usually operates with very low power consumption, but sometimes needs high power. To make the situation harder there is "sometimes" external power present ...
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Powering a li-ion battery from a TEG

For a project, i would like to power a li-ion battery from a TEG. For that, i use a step-up converter called LTC3109 developed by linear technology but it was limited in current. I intend to create a ...
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Is it okay to connect Supercapacitors as input to Step-up voltage regulator?

I want to use the maximum energy of the supercapacitor for 3.3 powered circuits. Thus, I thought of using step-up voltage regulator like this Can I do this? What are the other suggestions?
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cut power before voltage is too low for attiny

I have an attiny85 powered with a 220v - 5v converter. I have to do some actions when power is cut off. So to do this I have a super capacitor (2*2.5v) to keep enought power. My problem is when super ...
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Sizing of and Type of Power-loss / Brown-Out Protection Capacitor

I found a few resources and this question here: power-loss protection I'm using an MCP16301 step down regulator to turn 12v to 3.3v I'm having trouble determining I in this equation: C=I×t/ΔV with ...
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