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How to Increase the Current Capacity of a LM2596

It is possible to increase the current capacity of a LM2596, XL4005 or XL4015 module by connecting two of them in parallel.

However, they must come from the same batch -- this ensures that their characteristics will be close.

In addition, it's important that they share a heatsink, to prevent one of them from going into thermal runaway.

This method will increase the safe current capacity by about 40%.

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