Keantoken's CFP cap multiplier

I did not measured V access it, but I see very low current is running through it during continues operation. It's blinks for 1/2 sec during start as well as my green LEDs and still show very little light after that. Greens are totally off after initial blink. Not big deal with such Vdrop for me since I have sufficient margin.


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Sorry, I never got the notification that this thread has changed. It's better to PM me because sometimes I never find out when someone posts in the thread.

Luckily, there is good news however. I have new PCBs with corrected silkscreen. So if you still want boards, let me know.

As for BOM, this image covers a few different options for the board.
 

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I have just build a Keantoken cfp according to the stock schematic with C1 = 470uf nichicon fw, cout = 220uf, r1 = 220R instead of 47r and r load = 10ma, npn = bc337, pnp = pzta56. I measured it with the QA400 connected to external 38db amp, the Keantoken was feed from lt3471 step up from 3.7v battery to 7v. Here is the result:
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Look quite good but using the same setup, i swap the Keantoken for a simple capacitance multiplier (C1 = 470uf), noise figure is significant better:
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The Lt3471 alone:
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And Lt3471 with tps7a4701 look the best:
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People often blame the Lm317 for it noise but i found it to be very good ( this is a desktop power supply using transformer):
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