Having some issues with the first boards.
The output control IC lists in the datasheet that a large value capacitor is highly recommended, but it is causing brownouts on the badge. This could have been mitigated with a small change in design (specifically, moving the fuse after the 3V3 vreg but before the output switch as there's nothing else on the 3V3 that is likely to cause a fault / need protected) but it's too late for that now. I tested a few different configurations:
- Paralleling a 10uF cap on the input, things were improved. I could hotplug microdoom, but could not start it cold.
- Removing the large bulk cap on the output, I could reliably start microdoom.
- Testing another board without the parallel input cap and with output cap removed, things were still bad.
For these to work at Supercon, I'm going to need to hotplate and remove every bulk output cap and solder in a 10uF input 0603 cap. Very time consuming.
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