/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1713098
Kicad uses ngspice, which is fine, but sometimes models need to be adjusted to be able to work with it.
There will be a pushbutton to drive an IRF530 which will switch the inductor. Also not pictured is a TVS to prevent over-voltage on the output. I played around with duty cycle and frequency, adjusting values until I got something that had a good range of variability in it that seemed realistic. Attached is what the actual circuit will be, but to simulate it's best to create a copy of the schematic you have and adjust from there since you will have to put in passives to create non-idealized components and adjust power symbols which will greatly change how the schematic looks.

The long term plan is to make essentially an idle game. The first step of it is to keep your 'electro-cat' alive by keeping a semi-constant voltage on the boost circuit manually, then expand to more analog driven shenanigans from there. Eventually you'll be able to 'buy' an oscillator circuit to handle switching for you, but you'll have other objectives to monitor past that.

>>1713141
Going to use this big boi
https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/bourns-inc/1140-103K-RC/M8386-ND/774926