<div dir="auto">I’ve started to use TVS diodes on anything remotely touching automotive power <div dir="auto"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'-apple-system','helveticaneue';font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration:none;display:inline!important;float:none">With input diode to knock out reverse spikes or reverse connection and self resetting fuse if the TVS shunts or shorts out.</span> and for 12v level signals in addition to a transistor, buffer gates to somewhat isolate the 12v levels from logic level stuff. I did that on a clock I designed for my mum’s Honda which didn’t have a dash clock. </div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, 8 Nov 2024 at 10:46, Martin Towers <<a href="mailto:tinytowers@xtra.co.nz">tinytowers@xtra.co.nz</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I used to make gizmos for the car. They worked fine on the bench and<br>
blew up in the car. In a real car with a lead acid battery and<br>
alternator there are a lot of spikes and surges from all the inductive<br>
loads going on and off. Dirty battery contacts will blow things up.<br>
<br>
Since then things seem easier. Semiconductors are harder. The regulator<br>
xl1509 will survive up to 45V and that should be enough most of the<br>
time. There is reverse voltage protection.<br>
<br>
The CAN interface is just a conversion to the CAN dominant-recessive<br>
electrical system. You can use the ESP32 TWAI controller to monitor the<br>
CAN bus.<br>
<br>
So it's a good plan.<br>
<br>
Martin<br>
<br>
PS<br>
Let us know what colour the smoke is.<br>
<br>
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