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Regulated Power Supply Circuits
Last Updated on: Saturday, June 27, 2009 04:43 PM


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12 Volt Power Supply:  Please operate caution when building this power supply. It is run on standard 117 ac current - and under the right circumstances 117 ac can kill you. Use a plastic enclosure if possible to decrease chances of short-circuiting. Don't use the power supply if it's wet, and never run it without the specified fuse.  (Electronic circuit added 4/05)

13.8 Volt 20PSU:  This is a Regulated DC power supply with short circuit protection and with current limiter. (Circuit / schematic design added 6/06)

13.8V 20PSU:  This is a Regulated DC power supply with short circuit protection and with current limiter.  (added 10/05)

24V/48V Hot Swap™ Controller:  DN226 -  Design Notes (Linear Technology) (Circuit / schematic design added 6/06)

25 Watt MOSFET Amplifier:  High Quality simple unit. No need for a Preamplifier (Circuit / schematic design added 6/06)

9 Volt 2PSU:  A simple 9 Volt 2 amp supply using a single IC regulator. (Circuit / schematic design added 6/06)

A 13.8V 20A PSU:  This is a Regulated DC power supply with short circuit protection and with current limiter.  (added 10/05)

A 24V/48V Hot Swap™ Controller:  DN226 -  Design Notes (Linear Technology) (Circuit / schematic design added 6/06)

A 9V 2A PSU:  A simple 9 Volt 2 amp supply using a single IC regulator.  There is little to be said about this circuit. All the work is done by the regulator. The 78S09 can deliver up to 2 amps continuous output whilst maintaining a low noise and very well regulated supply. The circuit will work without the extra components, but for reverse polarity protection a 1N5400 diode is provided at the input, extra smoothing being provided by C1. The output stage includes C2 for extra filtering, if powering a logic circuit than a 100nF capacitor is also desirable to remove any high frequency switching noise.  (added 11/05)

ADM1070 Hot Swap Controller:  AN-591 - Analog Devices Application Note   (Circuit / schematic design added 6/06)   This App Note Describes Operation of the ADM1070 Under Various Hot Swap Insertion and Removal Conditions.

Advanced TCA Hot Swap Controller Eases Power Distribution:  DN353 -  Design Notes (Linear Technology)  (Circuit / schematic design added 6/06)

AN-1304: LM5068-48V Hot Swap Controller:  National Semiconductor - Application Note   (Circuit / schematic design added 6/06)

AN-694: Hot Swap and Blocking FET Control using 2 x ADM1073 Hot Swap Controllers:  AN-694 - Analog Devices Application Note   (Circuit / schematic design added 6/06)

Bench Top Power Supply Auto-Fan:  (Circuit added 9/04)

Bench Top Power Supply Part 1:  (Circuit added 9/04)

Bench Top Power Supply Part 2:  (Circuit added 9/04)

Bench Top Power Supply Part 3:  (Circuit added 9/04)

Bench Top Power Supply Part 4:  (Circuit added 9/04)

Boosting Regulator Current:  Although the 78xx series of voltage regulators are available with different current outputs, you can boost the available current output with this circuit. A power transistor is used to supply extra current to the load the regulator, maintaining a constant voltage.  Currents up to 650mA will flow through the regulator, above this value and the power transistor will start to conduct, supplying the extra current to the load. This should be on an adequate heat sink as it is likely to get rather hot. Suppose you use a 12v regulator, 7812. The input voltage should be a few volts higher to allow for voltage drops. Assume 20 volts. Lets also assume that the load will draw 5amps. The power dissipation in the transistor will be Vce * Ic or  (20-12)*8=40watt. It may keep you warm in the Winter, but you will need a large heatsink with good thermal dissipation. If you want to increase the output current with a negative regulator, such as the 79xx series, then the circuit is similar, but an NPN type power transistor is used instead.      (added 10/05)

Design Guidelines for Compactpci Hot Swap Control Applications using the LTC1644:  Design Solutions 12 -  Design Notes (Linear Technology)  (Circuit / schematic design added 6/06)

Finesse Regulator Noise:  (added 8/03)

Hot Swap and Blocking FET Control using 2 x ADM1073 Hot Swap Controllers:  AN-694 - Analog Devices Application Note   (Circuit / schematic design added 6/06)

Hot Swap and Buffer I2C Buses:  DN263 -  Design Notes (Linear Technology) (Circuit / schematic design added 6/06)

Hot Swap Circuit Meets Infiniband Specification:  DN265 -  Design Notes (Linear Technology) (Circuit / schematic design added 6/06)

Hot Swap Controller Handles Dual Polarity:  12/11/03 EDN Design Ideas  /  (added 1/05)  Some applications require a hot-swap controller, a circuit-breaker function, or both for dual-polarity, dc-input power-supply rails. In some hot-swap cases, the requirement is based only on inrush-current considerations. Control of the inrush current is necessary to eliminate connector stress and glitching of the power-supply rails....

Hot Swap Push-Pull Sync. Buck Negative Flyback Dual Sync. Buck Reference Design:  Hot Swap, Push Pull, Sync. Buck, Negative Flyback, Dual Sync. Buck with Vin of -36 V to -72V. Vout of 8 V, 5 V, 3.3 V, 2.5 V and -5 V. The output power is 79.5 W.  (Circuit / schematic design added 6/06)

Hot swap structure offers improved redundancy:  01/09/03  EDN-Design Ideas / (Circuit / schematic design added 6/06) For redundancy purposes, a number of power supplies, using ORing diodes, can work into the same load. During maintenance, when you can remove any power supply, the minimum possible power perturbation at the load is desirable. To compensate for the voltage drop across the ORing diodes, you must connect the power-supply feedback lines after the diodes, at the load...

Hot Swapping the PCI Bus:  DN155 -  Design Notes (Linear Technology) (Circuit / schematic design added 6/06)

Hot-Plug and Hot-Swap Bus Switches:  Pericom Semiconductor Application Note # 052 (added 2/05)

Line Power Supply:  This circuit provides a regulated output without a power transformer. It is similar to common circuits, except that a zener diode is replaced with an SCR. This is far more robust against line voltages surges than a zener diode version, plus there is no heat generation. C1 sets the available current (20mA/uF @ 60Hz). R3 sets the output voltage (~.55V/K). The bipolar outputs are separately adjustable by R3 and R5. Designed by Andrew R. Morris  (added 09/05)

LM317 Regulator with Pass Transistor:  (added 10/05)

LM5068-48V Hot Swap Controller:  National Semiconductor - Application Note   (Circuit / schematic design added 6/06)

Low Voltage Hot Swap Controller Ignores Backplane Noise and Surges:  DN319 -  Design Notes (Linear Technology) (Circuit / schematic design added 6/06)

LTC1645 Dual Channel Hot Swap Controller/Power Sequencer:  DN217 -  Design Notes (Linear Technology) (Circuit / schematic design added 6/06)

LTC1646: Power Supply Isolation Controller Simplifies Hot Swapping the CompactPCI Bus for 5V-/3.3V-Only Applications:  DN253 -  Design Notes (Linear Technology) (Circuit / schematic design added 6/06)

Regulated 12 Supply:  This circuit above uses a 13 volt zener diode, D2 which provides the voltage regulation. Aprroximately 0.7 Volts are dropped across the transistors b-e junction, leaving a higher current 12.3 Volt output supply. This circuit can supply loads of up to 500 mA. This circuit is also known as an amplified zener circuit.   (added 10/05)

Safe Hot Swapping using the LTC1421:  DN139 -  Design Notes (Linear Technology) (Circuit / schematic design added 6/06)

Simple V COM adjustment uses any logIC Supply Voltage:  09/30/04 EDN Design Ideas  /  (added 1/05)  All TFT (thin-film-transistor) LCD panels require at least one appropriately tuned V COM signal to provide a reference point for the panel's backplane. The exact value of V COM varies from panel to panel, so the manufacturer must program the voltage at the factory to match the characteristics of each screen....

Soft Start power Supply:  The output voltage rises slowly and reaches 15 V in 5 seconds.  In order to perform this soft-start function, the LM317 voltage regulator IC requires an external universal PNP transistor and the L200 uses its internal comparator (pin 2).  After switch-on, the rising voltage on the positive side of the charging electrolytic capacitor slowly turns the (initially conducting) transistor off, thus raising the voltage (relative to ground) on the adjustment pin of the LM317. In the L200 circuit, the corresponding electrolytic capacitor's rising voltage gradually relaxes the current-regulation loop inside the L200.   (added 10/05)

UltraLow Noise Switching Power Supplies Simplify EMI Compliance:  DN316 -  Design Notes (Linear Technology) (added 1/06)

Universal PSU:  A Universal Power supply based on the L200 regulator, which includes an outboard pass transistor to boost output currents up to 4 amps.   (added 11/05)

V COM Adjustment uses Any Logic Supply Voltage:  09/30/04 EDN Design Ideas  /  (added 1/05)  All TFT (thin-film-transistor) LCD panels require at least one appropriately tuned V COM signal to provide a reference point for the panel's backplane. The exact value of V COM varies from panel to panel, so the manufacturer must program the voltage at the factory to match the characteristics of each screen....


 
 

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