Saturday 14 September 2019

Combine 2 outputs from a single powerbank to increase current for driving leds and controller


I want to power a led matrix of 256 leds and my controller on the road. I calculated an approximation of the required current for the leds at 5.1A and the controller at 0.1A making 5.2A @5v together, though I think it will be lower depending on the animations.


I happen to have a 13600 mAh powerbank from Xiaomi lying around which supports quick charge through 2 micro usb outputs. 2.4A @ 5v.


I was thinking if I could combine these in parallel to increase current that would make 4.8A. Now that is slightly less but I could just dim the leds a little bit to make up for that last little bit.



Do you think that would be possible? I came up with the following circuit but as a starting embedded software engineer my experience is still limited so I might be missing something.


Basically, I just want to put the outputs in parallel and have a diode to protect against current flowing back into an output from another output and use a capacitor for peaks.


sketch




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