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Replacement power supply

A project log for Toshiba T3200SXC fix/upgrade: new PSU, LCD, WiFi

Restoration of 31-year old first* portable with color TFT screen. Re-designed PSU, adaptor for new LCD, WiFi with untouched chassis

wojciech-adalbert-jWojciech "adalbert" J 07/22/2022 at 14:550 Comments
Old (top) and new, smaller power supply (bottom)
Old (top) and new, smaller power supply (bottom)

A prototype power supply was fabricated using mostly readily-available DC-DC modules and home-etched PCB made by exposing a board coated with UV-soldermask under a 3D-printed mask.

The power supply required following rails:

Schematic
Schematic of the new power supply

Preparing PCB for etching by spreading UV-curable soldermask and exposing it under 3D-printed mask

Preparing PCB for etching by spreading UV-curable soldermask and exposing it under 3D-printed mask
New power supply
New power supply

I described the process of creating a PCB for this power supply in this project: https://hackaday.io/project/186467-making-pcbs-with-3d-printed-stencil-and-uv-paint

and in this video:



Major components of the power supply:

The power supply will be able to operate on wide input voltage range (ca. 15-24V), as all of the voltage rails are generated using step-down converters. It could be more cost effective to use just 5V and -5V, -12V converters, and use +12V directly from the DC input, but that would require some additional, active overvoltage protection, as it would be much easier to mismatch the power supply. It would be also possible to use just one +12V converter if a mosfet would be used to power the LCD on/off, but two converters were used to spread the load. ENABLE pins of +12V and +5V converters were used to provide soft power on-off functionality and to allow switching the LCD on and off (with help of additional transistor).

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