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Voltage Regulator Circuits, Page 3

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Last Updated on: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 05:37 AM
 

Circuits Designed by Dave Johnson, P.E. :
  • 240VAC TO 5VDC POWER SUPPLY
    This is simple way to power some 5v logic from a 240vac source.  If a 120vac power adapter is used, the  circuit will also work for 120vac power lines.
  • Classic Linear 5v Supply Using 6.3vac Transformer    A classic method for producing a regulated +5v DC supply is shown below.  This circuit consists of an iron core transformer, a bridge rectifier, a filter capacitor and a voltage regulator.  Many people are tempted to use a very popular 6.3v transformer for this +5v supply but they will often discover that there just isn’t enough voltage from the transformer to make the circuit work properly under all but very light load conditions.  Higher transformer voltages will work but at the expense of much more power being dissipated in the voltage regulator....

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Battery Backup Regulator is Glitch-Free and Low Dropout - DN170  Design Notes (Linear Technology) (app note added 2/06)

Bench Top Power Supply Auto-Fan - (Tony van Roon's circuit added 9/04)

Bench Top Power Supply Part 1 - (Tony van Roon's circuit added 9/04)

Bench Top Power Supply Part 2 - (Tony van Roon's circuit added 9/04)

Bench Top Power Supply Part 3 - (Tony van Roon's circuit added 9/04)

Bench Top Power Supply Part 4 - (Tony van Roon's circuit added 9/04)

Big Power for Big Processors: The LTC1430 Synchronous Regulator - DN113  Design Notes (Linear Technology) (app note added 1/06)

Bleeper Box for time reference - (circuit / schematic added 6/05)

Boost Reference Design - This design uses  UCC38C43 as a boost power supply controller. It operates from a 12 volt input and generates a 24 volts (or higher) output voltage. The input voltage can be widely varying as  UCC38C43 can sustain a 20 volt maximum input. (added 3/05)
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Boosting Regulator Current - Although  78xx series of voltage regulators are available with different current outputs, you can boost  available current output with this circuit. A power transistor is used to supply extra current to  load  regulator, maintaining a constant voltage.  Currents up to 650mA will flow through  regulator, above this value and  power transistor will start to conduct, supplying....    (added 10/05)

Bootstrapped boost converter operates at 18V  - 04/23/98 EDN-Design Ideas:  [Note:  File contains multiple circuits scroll to find this circuit.]  Many circuits, such as those that use batteries or solar cells, must operate in  face of decreasing supply voltages. The circuit in Figure 1 maintains  maximum load current as  supply voltage drops. The regulator boosts.....(design idea added 11/05)

Buck regulator and two inductors make dual Polarity converter - 03/20/03 EDN-Design Ideas:  A common problem for power-supply designers is to create a compact, dual-polarity step-down converter. If space and cost are not concerns, the obvious solution is a pair of dc/dc converters, one for each output.....(design idea added 1/05)

Buck regulator controls white LED with optical feedback - (Video Design Ideas- EDN, 10/25/07) -- By using optical feedback, you can stabilize the output level of a high-intensity LED. (electronic design idea added 9/08)

Buck regulator forms high Power inverting –5V supply - 04/01/04 EDN-Design Ideas:  Configuring a step-down switching-converter IC as an inverter yields an efficient, high-power, -5V supply that can of deliver currents as high as 4.5A at the 12V input or 3.2A at the 5V input (Figure 1). Convent.....(design idea added 1/05)

Build your own laboratory precision voltage reference - (Video Design Ideas- EDN, 05/24/07) -- Mark Thoren, mixed-signal application engineering manager with Linear Technology, demonstrates an amplifier-based circuit design for a relatively inexpensive precision voltage source. (electronic design idea added 9/08)

Capacitance Multiplier Power Supply for Class-A Amplifiers - Extremely low ripple supply with less power dissipation than a regulator (electronic schematic / circuit added 4/02)

Car Battery Charger (Aaron Cake) - quickly and easily charge most any lead acid battery, automatically turns charging off when ready (added 04/03/02)

Car Converter for 12 Volt to 9V - (Tony van Roon's circuit / schematic added 3/03)

Car NiCd Charger - This circuit provides up to20-Volt output from a regular13.2V automotive battery, to enable constant current charging of NiCd battery packs up to15 cells @1.2V (Tony van Roon's 18V total). (Tony van Roon's electronic design added 5/02)

Ceramic output capacitors enhance internally compensated switchers - 07/20/06 EDN-Design Ideas:  Restore switching regulator stability when you change output-capacitor compositions.....(design idea added 10/06)

Change Improves Regulators’ Reliability - 05/12/94 EDN-Design Ideas:  The standard circuit for adjustable, 3-terminal regulators (LM317, LM350, etc)in Fig 1a suffers from a designed-in fault: If  potentiometer R2’s wiper loses contact,  regulator’s output goes high. Because  potentiometer is  most unreliable part in  circuit, consider using  circuit in Fig 1b. Now,.....(design idea added 3/03)

Cheap pushbutton replaces rotary switch - 10/26/00 EDN-Design Ideas:  / PDF contains multiple circuits, scroll to find this circuit.....(design idea added 6/03)

Circuit improves on Bias for GaAs FETs - 12/06/01 EDN-Design Ideas:  It's important to properly sequence the bias applied to an RF/microwave GaAs FET or a MMIC (monolithic-microwave-IC)amplifier. These devices are extremely sensitive to drain and gate voltage levels as well as to the order in which these biases turn on and off. A GaAs-FET amplifier that uses two bias voltages.....(design idea added 1/05)

Circuit provides ADSL frequency reference - 05/25/00 EDN-Design Ideas:.....(design idea added 2/06) 

Circuit provides leading edge Blanking - 05/29/03 EDN-Design Ideas:  In isolated switch-mode power supplies using peak-current-mode control, generally the current-sense resistor senses the current on the primary side of the power converter. Figure 1 shows a typical circuit, in which R2 is the current-sense resistor that monitors the current. The current-sense signal goes to the..... (adden 02/05)

Circuit Provides Reference for Multiple ADCs - 01/24/02 EDN-Design Ideas:  The achievable accuracy for systems with multiple ADCs depends directly on the reference voltages applied to the ADCs. Medical-ultrasound-imaging systems, for example, commonly include a large number of ADCs in the system's beam-former electronics, with the ADCs usually organized in groups of 16, 24, 32, and so on.....(design idea added 1/05)

Compact Step-Up Converter Conserves Battery Power - DN358  Design Notes (Linear Technology)  (app note added 2/06)

Constant Current Battery Charger - A simple method of charging a battery from a higher voltage battery is shown in the circuit below to the left. Only one resistor is needed to set the desired charging current and is calculated by dividing the difference in battery voltages by the charge current. So, for example if 4 high capacity (4000 mA hour) ni-cads are to be charged at 300 mA from a 12 volt battery, the resistor need,....(circuit added 7/02)

Create a Virtual Ground with the LT1118-2.5 Sink/Source Voltage Regulator - DN115  Design Notes (Linear Technology) (app note added 2/06)

Current sensing scheme improves PFC on/off sequences - 06/27/02 EDN-Design Ideas:  PFC (power-factor-correction)preconverters typically use the step-up, or boost, configuration, because this type of converter is relatively easy to implement (Figure 1). However, this topology requires the output voltage to be higher than the input voltage. When this condition is not the case—for example,.....(design idea added 1/05)

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