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USB PD Programmable Power Supply: How to obtain?

A project log for PD Buddy Sink

Smart power jack for USB Power Delivery

clara-hobbsClara Hobbs 09/07/2017 at 15:220 Comments

In my quest to make the PD Buddy Sink the best possible device for getting power from USB PD chargers, the next step is to add support for more types of PDO.  I still don't know any chargers that advertise variable or battery PDOs, but I just found evidence of one that supports the very exciting Programmable Power Supply PDO from USB PD 3.0: https://www.diodes.com/assets/Evaluation-Boards/QC4-27W-Class-A-Reference-Design-User-Guide-Release-1.0.pdf

Now the question is, "how the heck do I get one?"  I haven't found any evidence that these exist beyond the linked PDF and some Chinese articles that don't seem helpful.  If anyone out there can tell me how I could get my hands on one of these evaluation boards, I'd really appreciate it!

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