Circuits & Schematics - Supply - 3

Introduction These ultra-simple projects are intended to provide two simple functions without the need for transformers or 'esoteric' parts. The first is a simple charge-pump voltage booster, that will raise your supply voltage by a factor ...

At its invention roughly four decades ago, STM (scanning tunneling microscopy) created a sensation because it was the first technology to make atomic-scale-resolution imaging a routine procedure. An essential requirement for the practical ...

When talking about standalone single cell battery chargers only one popular name came into my mind that is our versatile Li-Ion/Li-Po TP4056 battery charger. Which is vastly available and has a lot of features related to battery protection. The ...

The typical regulator output network Many voltage regulator chips, both linear and switching, use the same basic two-resistor network for output voltage programming. Figure 1 illustrates this feature in a typical switching (buck type) regulator, ...

The TL431 has been around for nearly 50 years. During those decades, while primarily marketed as a precision adjustable shunt regulator, this legacy device also found its way into alternative applications. These include voltage comparators, audio ...

A recent Design Idea, “Three discretes suffice to interface PWM to switching regulators”( Reference 1 ), demonstrated one way to use PWM to control the output of a typical switching voltage regulator. There were some discussions in the ...

If you have a load with a variable or poorly specified resistance and want to regulate the power applied to it (a heater for example), merely controlling the voltage or current will not work, as in both cases the power P = I 2 R = V 2 /R depends on ...

Figure 1 gives a simple circuit for the PUSH ON, PUSH OFF function with only a few inexpensive components. In this design, the output is connected to the input of the gadget when you press the push button (PB) once. For the next push, the output is ...

The LM4041 has been around for over 20 years. During those decades, while primarily marketed as a precision adjustable shunt regulator, this classic device also found its way into alternative applications. These include voltage comparators, ...

Almost every wall power supply has no indicator showing whether current is consumed by the load or not. It seems that this was a shortcoming that was not only noticed by me: I once saw the solution given in Figure 1. Figure 1. Wall power supply ...