Taranis X9E, how know which component it is?

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Taranis X9E, how know which component it is?

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Uncomfortable the multiprotocol Modul has produced a short circuit and one wire of the FFC burned up (like a fuse). A new FFC cable is ordered and if no Modul is insert, I received the battery voltage at the expected pins. To go sure, that nothing else was happen, I have try to identify following component: EHGAG (U19 is printed on the PCB) . I didn't found anything about this one in the Internet. Maybe I search on wrong place, maybe with the wrong keyword) Uncomfortable the wire from the FFC (4) goes to this component and the biggest part current was going over this way.

Where I can find a Datasheet from this part?
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Re: Taranis X9E, how know which component it is?

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U19 is a AM5521C and switches the power to the external module bay.

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Hmmm, that Mosfet seems to have a quite low Gate-Source maximum voltage, only 8V. I think I wouldn't use it to switch the module power in a radio. Does it have any protection on the gate? A zener diode for example?

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I never looked at the datasheet for that part, the gate-source voltage for both MOSFETs in it are, indeed, 8V maximum.
The X9E uses 3 of these devices, one for the soft, main power switch and one each for the power to the internal and external modules.
Since the battery is an 8-cell NiMh, we have 9.6V (or more when fully charged).
The N-channel MOSFET only has 3.3V on the gate, but the P-channel has a 100K resistor between source and gate and a 10K to (switched) ground. This gives 8.73V gate-source voltage with the battery at 9.6V, increasing if the battery voltage is higher.
I had the main power switching device fail on a prototype main X9E board (twice), this could be the reason.
I wonder if this is also related to the X9E of a club member who had a problem with static causing his X9E to power off?

A possible fix would be to reduce the value of the 100K resistor (add another 100K in parallel would be good).

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MOSFETS don't like to be working very close to their maximum gate voltage. They will eventually get destroyed.
I remember the Ar9x board used AO3401, which has a Gate/Source max voltage of 12V, and I thought it was quite low.. The latest version used the AO3407A (20V). This Transistor is very cheap and it is rated at about 4A. It is my favorite Mosfet for this type of switching.. :) Well, Mosfets are perhaps my favorite component. :mrgreen:
The guys that designed the radio should have paid more attention to their Math lessons :mrgreen:
This is a good reason for me not to trust this radio.
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