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"mike" <ham789@netzero.net> wrote in message
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much at Phil going off on one again
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OK, my apologies. Somehow I missed that ... Probably coz I was laughing soOn 4/17/2013 1:25 AM, Arfa Daily wrote:
"mike" <ham789@netzero.net> wrote in message
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On 4/16/2013 9:23 PM, jurb6006@gmail.com wrote:
You want 12 volts just dig up an old AT type PC power supply. Now
there's something I am sure you have laying around.
That can be made to work, but it's rarely the slam-dunk that you imply.
Think about how the regulation works. You'll figger it out.
It is, however, a technique quite often used in commercial equipment.
Whilst I would agree that it is not the most elegant, it does not have
to be "made" to work - it just does. I'm not quite sure I follow what
you think the problem is with the regulation. A zener diode produces a
more or less constant voltage drop across its (reverse biased) junction.
Yes, I would agree that the drop does vary a little with the current
flowing, but the drop is substantially constant, certainly enough so, if
you are not going to draw a huge range of currents through it, and
definitely not a problem if the 'dropper' is going to be followed by a
'real' regulator, as it was going to be in Klem's application, if you
remember from - or even read - his original thread from a couple of
months back.
He was looking for a simple solution because he did not fully understand
some of the more elegant and complicated ones that were being put to
him. As he had some high power zeners of an appropriate voltage to hand,
the solution that I offered him fitted the bill in that it was simple,
he understood it, and above all, it worked, and apparently has been
doing so for a couple of months now.
So, if you want a simple 'dropper' that is largely current independant,
then I think the term "slam dunk" fits this technique remarkably well !
Arfa
I can only recommend that you read the first sentence that you quoted.
My input has nothing to do with the dropper. It's about trying to get 12V
out of a AT PC supply without thinking about what you're doing.
much at Phil going off on one again
Arfa