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https://www.digikey.ca/en/products/detail/koa-speer-electronics-inc/PSL2NTEBL500F/1039674

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Implementation Ideas

  • “High” voltage & current passthrough should be done with an XT90 connector.

  • Current measuring can be implemented with a smaller current transformer to be mounted on the PCB

  • A simple ADC integrated (presumably 2 channel ADC) and possibly voltage divider circuit can be used to measure both current and voltage

    • This ADC should support I2C and SPI and may be fitted with a signal buffer IC

    • Fairly standard to be able to find an ADC that can operate at 3.3V

  • A single “low voltage connector” should be used

    • This would be some relatively fine pitch connector

      • Some standard molex thing

    • Four conductors on this connector

      • GND (this will be signal ground, but should be presumed as the same potential and non-isolated from the “high voltage passthrough gnd”

      • 5V or 12 V input power (possibly a range that supports each of these and maybe more)

      • I2C or UART data lines (2 conductors for each of these protocols.

  • Alternatively, use the 12V and 5V stepped down from the input line to power all board ICs instead of plugging in external power

  • Powering the ADC

    • The ADC and buffer (if a buffer is included, just an idea) will ideally consume very miniscule current, on the order of less than 200mA which makes a simple LDO (low dropout regulator) viable

    • This LDO will take the low voltage input power and use that to power the ADC chip.

    • LDO has lower efficiency than a buck, but will save board space and will be more convenient to implment.

      • Because of the negligible total power requirements for the board a low efficiency doesnt matter as much

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