Electronics Hardware
LT8390 Synchronous Buck-Boost DC-DC Converter
For the past couple of years, I have been powering my Sony 55” LCD TV and charging a couple of laptop computers from a 12V solar system. Both the Sony TV and the laptop computers have an input voltage of 19.5VDC. To step up the voltage from the battery, I purchased two “LTC3780 Automatic lifting pressure constant voltage step up step down 10A 130W” a.k.a. LTC3780 – High Efficiency, Synchronous, 4-Switch Buck-Boost DC-DC Converters from ebay. These boards operated from a moderately wide 5 – 36V input and had an output voltage range of 1 – 30V. The LTC3780 has …