Permission to copy the schematics and pcb design in KiCAD and publish it.

[Istria1704]

Hello Angelo,

Thank you very much for sharing this awesome project with the world. I learned a whole lot about synchronous buck converters and mppt, all thanks to your instructable.

I'm wondering if you would find it ok if I would copy your design in KiCAD and put it on Github (with full credits to you of course). I noticed there is no free version of the Proteus PCB Design software. And I would like to mod your design a bit for higher output current (50-60A).

Planning to build a solar boat with 2S5P solar panel configuration which would give a Voc of 100V and a Imp of 50A. The output would be a 48V lead-acid battery bank and a 3 kW electric motor. So while cruising, I'd need around 40A of output current for the motor plus some charging current if the battery is not full.

I intend to copy your schematics and pcb in KiCAD and, if it's ok with you, I'll share both the (copied) original and a version with my modifications on github.

Thanks again for sharing this project!

[P0rkR0ll]

Hello @Istria1704 , I was just wondering if you ever started work on this. I would like to contribute as well and build off this ref design!

[Istria1704]

No, but not long after I opened this issue, I came across someone who had already done exactly that (copied it to KiCAD). I'll see if I can find it again later. If I do I'll post the url. It might even be one of the issues here.

Update:
Just found this. I'm not sure if it's the same one I came across before.
https://github.com/jharvey/Charge_Controller

And I haven't checked if it's an exact copy without errors/mistakes.

Update 2:
Yes, this is the same one I found before. And I did find it in the issues here, as I vaguely remembered:
#1 (comment)