Experience with LD1085 voltage regulator?

[mark risher]

Hello:

I'm having difficulty with a new LD1085V adjustable voltage regulator,
and hope some kind individual in this group can help.

I hooked it up as the ST Micro datasheet indicates, with 10uF caps to
ground, a 120_o resistor from OUT to ADJ, and a pot from ADJ to
ground, but I'm not getting adjustable voltage. Instead, I always get
5.3V at the OUT, representing a ~1V drop from Vin, regardless of the
setting on my trimmer pot. My "load," for testing purposes, is a 1k
resistor.

The voltage across R1 (from OUT to ADJ) reads in the millivolt range.

Is this chip toasted, or am I missing something?

Thank you much,
/m

 

[Peter Bennett]

On 29 Feb 2004 06:59:31 -0800, abreu101@yahoo.com (mark risher) wrote:

Hello:

I'm having difficulty with a new LD1085V adjustable voltage regulator,
and hope some kind individual in this group can help.

I hooked it up as the ST Micro datasheet indicates, with 10uF caps to
ground, a 120_o resistor from OUT to ADJ, and a pot from ADJ to
ground, but I'm not getting adjustable voltage. Instead, I always get
5.3V at the OUT, representing a ~1V drop from Vin, regardless of the
setting on my trimmer pot. My "load," for testing purposes, is a 1k
resistor.

The voltage across R1 (from OUT to ADJ) reads in the millivolt range.

Is this chip toasted, or am I missing something?

Thank you much,
/m

I suspect that you have it connected incorrectly.

for the TO-220 package, if you hold the part with the labelled side
towards you, and the pins hanging down, the pins are, left to right,
adjust, output, and input.




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[mark risher]

Peter Bennett <peterbb@somewhere.invalid> wrote in message news:<tee440dbd6anq8qlth0msfup776a4kmft5@news.supernews.com>...

for the TO-220 package, if you hold the part with the labelled side
towards you, and the pins hanging down, the pins are, left to right,
adjust, output, and input.

Thank you for the reply, but I checked the connections, and I do have
the output and input correct. Into the rightmost pin (input) I have a
+6 and cap to ground; into the middle pin, a resistor to the
leftmost...

Other thoughts? What would the failure mode of this device be?

Thank you.

 

[Jeffrey C. Dege]

On 29 Feb 2004 06:59:31 -0800, mark risher <abreu101@yahoo.com> wrote:

Hello:

I'm having difficulty with a new LD1085V adjustable voltage regulator,
and hope some kind individual in this group can help.

I was just having problems with Voltage regulators, and nothing anybody
suggested was any help.

Someone suggested that it might be because of resonance triggered by
transients in the input voltage, or some such analog witchery.

In any case, I tried running the voltage regulators (7805 and 317)
from a 9V battery, instead of the transformer I had been using, and it
worked fine.

Which proved to mome that the problem was with choosing the right
protective caps and diodes on the input, instead of my wiring. (Which,
to me, means its black magic).

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materiari?

 

[mark risher]

I'm running off a 6V battery pack, but I'll try your suggestion. Do you
recall which caps were recommended, or how to pick better ones? I'm using a
10uF, like the datasheet recommends...

Thank you,
/m


"Jeffrey C. Dege" <jdege@jdege.visi.com> wrote in message
news:slrnc47f8q.6gp.jdege@jdege.visi.com...

On 29 Feb 2004 06:59:31 -0800, mark risher <abreu101@yahoo.com> wrote:
Hello:

I'm having difficulty with a new LD1085V adjustable voltage regulator,
and hope some kind individual in this group can help.

I was just having problems with Voltage regulators, and nothing anybody
suggested was any help.

Someone suggested that it might be because of resonance triggered by
transients in the input voltage, or some such analog witchery.

In any case, I tried running the voltage regulators (7805 and 317)
from a 9V battery, instead of the transformer I had been using, and it
worked fine.

Which proved to mome that the problem was with choosing the right
protective caps and diodes on the input, instead of my wiring. (Which,
to me, means its black magic).

--
Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit
materiari?

 

[Jeffrey C. Dege]

On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 00:56:07 GMT, mark risher <mark@bogus.yahoo.com> wrote:

I'm running off a 6V battery pack, but I'll try your suggestion. Do you
recall which caps were recommended, or how to pick better ones? I'm using a
10uF, like the datasheet recommends...

This is what I got:

3. Use a 1000uf 25 volt cap on the input.

4. Add a .1 uf 25 volt cap on the output.

5. Add a 1n4004 or 1n4007 diode from the output to the input, just
in case you short the input while the output is connected to a battery.

Which I'm not sure parses clearly.

But a 6V input raises another possibility.

Does the 1085 have a minimum input voltage? Some require the input voltage
to be at least 2V above the output.

Others require a minimum current draw in order to work.

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[John Popelish]

mark risher wrote:

I'm running off a 6V battery pack, but I'll try your suggestion. Do you
recall which caps were recommended, or how to pick better ones? I'm using a
10uF, like the datasheet recommends...

I had trouble with low drop out regulators (not this one, in
particular) as long as I tried to find output caps that had the right
combination of capacitance and ESR, over all operating conditions. I
had good luck with a low ESR stacked film cap of 1 uf in series with a
1 ohm film resistor, very close to the regulator. Then mine worked
even with a few more microfarads spread around close to loads in
parallel with this network but separated by some distance.

Based on what I see on the data sheet:
http://www.st.com/stonline/books/pdf/docs/6738.pdf
I think this approach might do well here, also.

The input capacitor is less critical. Ordinary aluminum electrolytics
usually work well, and bigger is usually better.

--
John Popelish