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AEMSUCA R3 makes your battery life longer

A project log for Solar harvesting into supercapacitors

This is a 0.8x0.6 inch board with AEM10941 solar harvesting IC charging supercapacitors

jasper-sikkenJasper Sikken 12/26/2020 at 20:170 Comments

In revision 2 the PCBA was pre-configured to output 3.3V and 1.8V on the HV and LV outputs and these levels could not be adjusted. Now in Revision 3 you can lower the HV output to 2.5V using a solder jumper. When R4 is placed the HV output is 3.3V. When R3 is placed the HV output is 2.5V

In my board R3 and R4 define CFG[0] is 1 or 0, see the table below (from E-peas AEM10941 datasheet)

If your processor can run on 2.5V then you can run the supercapacitors down to 2.8V instead of 3.6V. This is a big battery lifetime  increase for your application.

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