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Boards and stencil from Aisler arrived, first test

A project log for Soft power button with sense output

One of my designs needs a soft power button with sense output. I'm posting my design here to be reviewed and improved.

christophChristoph 11/15/2017 at 00:191 Comment

This was in the mail two days ago:

There were a second sticker and a third board but I just wanted to show top and bottom here.

The board cuts aren't really clean:

The result after soldering (the Aisler stencil did a good job!) and adding a teensy:

In that circuit, I just use the teensy to

Here's the sketch, which

 This worked as expected.

I also tried to modify the circuit to make it latch by itself. It just needed a strong enough pullup resistor (I had 2k7 at hand) from Q2's base to Vbat_out and once the button was pressed, power stayed on by itself.

Next: Test with a Teensy that can shut itself off with this circuit, because that's waht I had in mind when I started this project.

Discussions

Jan wrote 06/10/2018 at 14:39 point

Thanks for the pics of the Aisler boards. I wanted to try them with one of my next boards as they are located in Germany but I am really concerned with that outer routing! Having traces like 1mm from the outline seems risky here. Which is no problem with OSHPark for example. Even the dirtyPCB board I ordered looked better...

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