Suggestion - TVS diode at 5V input

[BitMaker-hub]

Even could not be necessary, this is recommended to protect bitaxe from plug/unplug transients. This should be on the power supply, but you can't always guarantee. A SMAJ5.0A is enough

[etkaar]

Hi! Sounds good. I added the diode into the schematics and placed it on the backside: https://github.com/etkaar/bitaxe-gamma/commit/5fe13252e808a77f498ea90b609bffe9aaf64e53

Position on PCB is not final though, since I also want to add a SMD fuse, see https://github.com/skot/bitaxeGamma/issues/17.

[etkaar]

Unfortunately I am not so familiar with the PCB, so it is hard for me to add the SMD fuse.

However, regarding the TVS diode two important notes:

• I would not recommend adding it without adding the fuse, because if the TVS dies, it will cause a short.
• 400W for the SMAJ5.0A sounds much, but probably isn't enough. As far as I know some kind of ESD protection can be offered by capacitors as well and having some (bulk?) capacitance at 5 V input sounds not bad and we already have C2, C3 and C4. Others are more competent than me to answer the question if these are already enough and/or if we can use a bulk capacitance (e.g. a nice aluminum electrolytic capacitor) instead.