DIY Buck converter - TUTORIAL

[@PyccoloSantos]

Its 2023 and this circuit will help me on my thesis, ty Electronoobs, I will credit you in the references.

[@americanrebel413]

This is the best tutorial I've heard on buck converters, I actually understand now. Thank you, I subscribed.

[@roseelectronics4582]

It's also very nicely explained by Adamant IT.

[@pietervheerden]

I love the way in which you break things down. Imparts knowledge in stead of just information... and extremely helpful for someone like myself who's trying to learn electronics.

[@tacca2747]

I never understood how buck converters work until now. Thank you for a great and simply presented tutorial

[@DrScanlon]

This is one of the best explanations of a buck converter that I've seen. Simple and to the point.

[@Fiskelord]

Why you only have 50k subs is a mystery to me. I randomly found your website while searching for info on buck converters, and you gained me as a sub with just one video. Keep up the good work, buddy!

[@ELECTRONOOBS]

oh. Thank you very much!

[@bassome3000ify]

i used to say to others, their videos are the best in explaining, now i found new best explain-er videos :P really cool, helps all beginners, even pros new to the application topic. thanks!!!

[@toniljones_Graphite]

I've watched a bunch of videos to get a grasp of this concept. Yours did the trick Thank you sir!

[@chaddd41]

Great video editing. You're very good at explaining things in a clear, concise manner that isn't too technical, yet still informative.

[@pasteltiara]

At last...one feels illuminated. This is a much better way to explain the idea. Thanks sir.

[@ajohpv7033]

One of the Best video till date about buck converters

[@pault6533]

I did! I did learn something! - Another Mechanical Engineer stopping by!

[@Tommybotham]

I really appreciate your video. So many idiots on the internet explaining buck converters and feedbacks in such a confusing way. Yes you can just buy the LMxxxx, but I love the way you explain the DIY version, so that using an LMxxxx is just another step up. Very nice.

[@MMaheshThakur]

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[@Mastakilla91]

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[@WaltonPete]

Interesting and well thought out video, as usual, with very informative and useful content.

[@ELECTRONOOBS]

Thank you!

[@psikodelriot6754]

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[@ilducedimas]

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[@marcus_w0]

Very nice explaination. Imho your best Video so far - you're getting better and better.

[@nasim3269]

Best video on Buck Converters

[@kreynolds1123]

Consider an electrolisys aplication. The plates and electrolyte form a capacitor. In the begining, the electrolyte is cold and conducts less requiring higher voltage to push current through. Then as the electrolyte warms it becomes less resistive and conducts more current. Annunregulated buck converter dops in voltage with a higher current draw. And with electrolisys, lower voltage end up drawing less current and produces hydrogen more efficently. The current voltage responce us more like a zener diode and resistor than a simple resistor. This loosely uses current to warm up the electrolyte making it more conductive so that it can pull more a little more current at a lower more efficent HHO generating voltage. It loosly self regulates the current without feedback circuitry. An adjusable pwm circuit can may be more interested in lowing the duty cycle with feedback from a temperature sensor to further regulate how much current goes through the cell by lowering the outut voltage further, thus controlling the watts consumed by the HHO cell and further improve efficency.

[@stephenwilson8150]

Subscribed within less than 3 minutes. That is all.

[@ryandelbalso7862]

Excellent description. Very clear diagrams that help clarify the concepts. Thank you.

[@BoZhaoengineering]

Your interpretation is very clear. I have a mechanical background. But I always like to learn some in power electronics !

[@ibrahimabubakr2227]

great video, for me you explain it basically better than all those academic videos, if only you can explain more related to the higher power systems, liek inverters for EV it will be great

[@TrentSterling]

Whoa, top notch video editing on this! Your channel is really picking up. I was already subbed, but this video made me turn on that bell!

[@ELECTRONOOBS]

Thank you very much!

[@BICIeCOMPUTERconGabriele]

Thank you very much, your video is super well taught and finally I understood how these circuit work!

[@M.Melkonyan]

The best explanation I have ever seen

[@maotradok3790]

@Electronoobs can you make a tutorial of calculating the parameter of the component of each of the converter? that should help me a lot

[@tomgeorge3726]

Hi, a schottky diode is used because it is a high speed switching diode, compared with a 1N4001 series diode. High speed because of the switching speed of the converter output.

[@wdujsub7902]

Your video quality is outstanding! Great videos, keep up the good work :)

[@RoyAndrews82]

The inductor has a current charge rate.. The capacitor has voltage charge rate.. Together, if you know how to sense voltage discharging edge triggering, you can choose when to charge the cap n inductor.

[@gregorykafanelis5093]

I wish the best to you. This was beyond helpful

[@enp0s]

Hey electronoobs. Unas preguntas. Que has estudiado para saber tanto de electronica? Que libros, webs, videos de yutuf recomiendas para alguien que se quiera meter? Que proyecto de los de tu canal es el que mas te ha gustado? Y que proyecto crees que esta bien para alguien que no tiene mucha idea?

[@ELECTRONOOBS]

He estudiado ingeniería electrónica. Recomiendo mirar tutoriales de KZbin y probar todo emepezando con pequeños circuitos como este. Recomiendo que te compres un Arduino y hacer pequeños tests. Como libro te recomneido Basic Electronics de Walter Banzhaf. Saludos!

[@freddofrog1357]

Good video, well explained. Maybe a brief explanation of the application of the fet and bjt would complete an otherwise very informative tutorial.

[@Zemiltube]

Wow! So clear and concise explanation!!! Thank you!

[@taotechnique]

Wow! This is such a great video! Informative and so easy to follow!!

[@sukhbirrana9779]

Thanks a lot for better explanation of working of buck converter.

[@francoisguyot9770]

Nicely illustrated!

[@miguelcolon4690]

Excellent!!!!! Liked to know how to change a 40vdc battery trimmer to a wired one. 110vac. A boost switch? How it works?

[@John_Smile]

You use the LM2576 circuit. People in China use the LM2596 circuit for the same construction.

[@jeghanathandivaharan3219]

Very good explanation. Thanks for your video.

[@Saimoun82]

You're a great teacher!! Very clear :D Thank you!

[@ACOnetwork]

One of best explonations 😁 thank you 😁👍

[@jackandcoke9486]

Very informative and easy to understand, thank you

[@erikderuiter7475]

Wow... Your explanation is so good! Exceptional... I'm learning about power supplies for Nixie tubes and your information is invaluable. I only wonder about safety of for example a NE555 based PS. Dedicated IC's have protection circuitry but I read that the often used Maxim 1771 has a poor design because the gate of the Mosfet is pulled to ground by a resistor: quote "a substantiol amount of power is wasted in the FET" But I need to look into that much more... I want a safe PS so I can leave a home made HV PS safely on 24/7.

[@familyjiang6997]

Hello, maybe I still make something wrong. There is a schematic at 8:28. You use IRFZ44N. It's an N-Channel, but you use a P-Channel symbol. Another is the value of L and C. The value of L can not be compatible with 100UF E-Cap.

[@MathewPanicker1010]

You're correct, it should be a ptype mosfet. An ntype wouldn't work here.

[@manusudha4269]

Excellent lecture and demo . Thank you .

[@TechnoEveryday]

Awesome tutorial

[@CoolDudeClem]

This is a good video and I don't want to have to critisise here buuuuuuuuuuut ... I don't see how the circuit at 8:28 could work, or at least work well. I know how a buck converter works, but it's the way the mosfet gate is being driven here that is getting at me. Surely like this the gate won't get a good square wave and instead will be more of a ramp wave because of the mosfet gate capacitance, right? And wouldn't that get even worse with more load due to the miller effect? And also, having an n-channel mosfet connected like this, surely the gate voltage could never get high enough to turn the gate fully on so the mosfet will be in it's linear region? Also it's drawn here as a p-channel mosfet where as an IRFZ44N is n-channel.

[@wdujsub7902]

Yes there is a N- channel mosfet and there should have been a P channel just like you said. If you put a N channel like that it will be mostly closed or just very slightly opened. Well the miller effect is really a problem only in case of transistors used as amplifiers, since it changes the input and output impedances slightly and can limit the frequency range of the amplifier, but in case of switching transistors it shouldn´t be a problem. The gate doesn´t get the same square wave as it comes out from arduino, but it is a lot sharper that you might think, to make it ever sharper I would decrease the value of the 10k resistor to maybe 2-3k depending on the datasheet of the bipolar transistor. But because of the approx. 33kHz frequency the mosfet operates on it is low enough to make sharpness of the edges more than sufficient to fully open and close the transistor (at least my oscilloscope says that :) ) hope that helped. if you want to correct me on something please go on :)

[@Musabbir_Sakib]

I have some questions, shouldn't be the gorund of arduino connect to the circuit? And why Vin is connected to input voltage? Can arduino stand 12V ?

[@incxxxx]

As usually good and very solid lecture.

[@MCsCreations]

Really, really nice work, man!

[@paultakoy7091]

Awesome job. Keep up the great videos.

[@jiri.sikora]

*BEST INTRO EVER* love IT !

[@JoseGustavoAbreuMurta]

Great video. Excellent explanation. Congratulations !

[@siddhat7802]

How did you calculate the inductor and capacitor values. Also, what factors did you take into consideration while calculating those values? Finally, how did you select the switching frequency to turn on and off the Mosfet?

[@RdGear]

Great explanation!! Really nice video. Like it!!

[@sssserya1]

IRFZ44N is an N channel transistor you need P channel

[@ELECTRONOOBS]

True!

[@wdujsub7902]

i think it would work just fine if you would put an N channel close to ground

[@amanprasad6221]

P channel have 10 times higher resistance w.r.t. n channel So n channel is efficient (S-D resistance)

[@nostalgistl0058]

Okay,for N-MOS in Buck converter,i didn;t see any bootstrap circuit for High side switching

[@RoyAndrews82]

Couldn't you use a OpAmp for the gate of the MOSFET..? To Regulate the output or charging of the capacitor based on the resistance or discharging of the capacitor?

[@SaliyaRuchiranga]

how to choose or wind the inductor ? , waiting for boost and buck-boost converter videos !

[@jugalmistry1726]

Saliya Ruchiranga Use a ferrite core to wound a simple wire on it and then measure it using LCR meter.

[@jroot1279]

Excellent explanation.

[@hashanhemachandra4071]

WOW! What an awesome tutorial!!!! Thanks man!!!

[@subrata-maity]

Very well explained👍👌 Thank you💖💞💓

[@horaceinfiji]

Dude just too good

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just like GREAT SCOTT, intro. and Channel name quite similar to ELECTROBOOM 💥💥💥

[@pedroramirez5905]

F* off

[@jakenbaked87]

When is the best time to use an optocoupler for feedback? How do you get around frequency limitations for high frequency optocouplers?

[@Sam-yz7vm]

very nice, very clear, thank you

[@arunajain4218]

please make a tutorial for DC motor drone! waiting it for a long time ! please make it

[@2020SENn]

Best explanation👌🏻👌🏻

[@maulanawahyudi7127]

Wow, thanks a lot . That's super cool

[@jishnukjithu3606]

Best satisfied chanel❤

[@Mateo-vl3zv]

Made arduino one ,it works!!!!thank you

[@dushyantchaudharymathura]

What ic should be used for upto 15 amp of current like lm2576 for 3 amp.

[@Graham1904]

Great video, super advice on technical aspects. What PWM frequency did you use on your own switching circuit? I couldn't read your scope you were moving so quickly :)

[@4565Nitin]

You are the best ! Great video thanks bro :)

[@barbasbandas6665]

Great videos as always. But I would suggest changing the background music. It sounds like baby music... Thanks!

[@KhalidFawzy]

Simply AMAZING!

[@joprieur7718]

does the voltage and the specs of the MosFet are important or can you choose a random MosFet ? Thank you

[@TRUEDIY]

So good

[@ironspider9026]

Very helpful, Thanks for sharing.

[@GrandNecro]

amazing explanation

[@electronic7979]

Nice video

[@yogendrakahane9455]

Great video as always. 👍 how to add current limiting to it and also short circuit protection.

[@hardikyadav5277]

hey bro can we make a buck converter for convert 220-240v ac 50hz into 35v dc 8a without using transister or mosfet

[@rekrexacosta4331]

Nice explains thank you sir

[@donaldhenke2750]

how do i get a 15amp from this buck conveter? please reply.

[@matrixsecurityandautomatio427]

Great video. Pleade tell me which mosfet i can use to built a buck converter 50v to 120v dc input with 12 v dc fixed output, load is max 1 amp

[@carlosagorreta5276]

really good video

[@robertmckelvey3091]

What would I use if I wanted to lower 40v to 36v or 12v

[@ratgreen]

What about making your own very high voltage (100v+ dc) boost converter, You just adjust the voltage divider to suit the IC and get a larger inductor and higher rated capacitor?

[@annyan904]

excellent video

[@TheJavaSync]

Great, but it is pretty hard to find LM2576 - please make it with UC3842 cheap & easy to find it - thank You :)

[@NNNILabs]

Your videos are great! What editing software do you use?

[@ELECTRONOOBS]

After effects

[@fogphotography]

@@ELECTRONOOBS i prefer adobe premier for fast editing and better quality, Actually AE is a vfx based software.

[@fyremusic6307]

Thanks for the best-detailed tutorial. Is it ok if I use one of the simple voltage regulator to take 5V to 3.7V?

[@mohammad87u]

شرح رائع جدا وأسطوري

[@salom77]

Thanks a lot for this great tutorial. 🔴 In my project, I use a solar panel to charge a 6V battery that supplies 4 outputs: 3.3~5V 0.12mA, 3.6~6V 0.12A, 4.8V 0.27A, & 3.4~4V 0.5A. Now, should I use the Buck converter for each single output? Is the Buck converter best choice for my project?

[@robertneill3057]

Very much subject to the dropout voltage of the buck converter especially when the battery voltage falls down. The multiple output requirements usually entails the use of a tapped inductor or transformer to avoid intermodulation problems between multiple buck converter regulators operating on a common supply.

[@sajichottanikkarapk1984]

Good tutorial thanks.

[@hassan_essakhi]

good one and nice explication