Electrical – PMOS High Side Switch

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I have been working on a project and one of the ideas was to control power supply of LCD 16×2 module and IR sensor via I/O pin of microcontroller, basically to have them on/off when i need them to be. I know that that can be done using MOSFET and BJT transistors (aka. High/Low Side Switches). I am using pic18f4550 for this project.

In worst case those two modules consume around 30mA on 5V. I have done the math and made circuit that provides me output of 33.3mA on 5V.. Here is what i have done so far:

schematic

simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab

I have googled for high/low side switches but so far i haven't been satisfied with answers I found. Is this going to work or do i need something else to make this work? Thanks in advance.

Best Answer

In principle, your circuit is fine. I do not like that the IRF9530's \$R_{ds on}\$ is only spec'd at 10V. You would be better served to choose something like a BSS84.

BSS84 Rdson

This is a higher \$R_{ds on}\$ part, but the curve is much better suited for operating at 5V.

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