42V battery - 6 Volts step-down - 5V GPS tracker

I have a GPS tracker to put somewhere on my bike, and it has the 5V wire input option to be soldered on pcb, instead of using the classic 3.7V battery / USB charge.





Using a step-down, with output set at 6v (for headlight+rearlight) can I connect its 6V output to the 5V input of the GPS tracker ? Or should I consider that voltage regulator's tolerances (which I can not identify on the tracker PCB) do not reach 6v (that's 20% more) ?

put a regular diode on there to drop it another 0.6v. that should be enough for any piece of electronics to absorb.

flippy said:

put a regular diode on there to drop it another 0.6v. that should be enough for any piece of electronics to absorb.

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That's not a neat solution.

rio9210 said:

flippy said:

put a regular diode on there to drop it another 0.6v. that should be enough for any piece of electronics to absorb.

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That's not a neat solution.

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1 diode compaired to having a entire buck converter fo lose 1 volt?
i challenge you to make a "neater" solution that is cheap, reliable and is just as easy to install.

Joachim said:

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What's that stuff ?