Questions tagged [power]
Where power is a primary concern for the design under discussion. Use the "low-power" tag when that applies.
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Is the US Power grid's voltage the theoretical maximum? [on hold]
At this point, most of the people on this site who live in America know that the voltage of common power circuits is around 120 volts. My question relates to the use of voltage dividers in a circuit. ...
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Firmware only runs when I press the reset button
I've created a board using the STM32F405R6T6.
I am experiencing some problems: after I program the firmware onto the microcontroller, withdraw the power and reinsert, the firmware only starts to run ...
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What are suggestions for designing a circular electromagnetic accelerator? [on hold]
I am currently planning to build a circular electromagnetic accelerator, think a particle accelerator that is accelerating a macro-sized projectile instead of an elementary particle.
My current ...
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What happens if LEDs do not get enough current? [duplicate]
I'm building a lighting fixture using big led panels.
The LED panel says it requires 7 amps @ 12 volts, but the power supply I have is only rated to 4 amps @12 volts.
What will happen? Will it ...
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How to setup the oscilloscope for measuring power supply response
I need to measure the overshoot and to modify some capacitor values in the feedback loop of the operational amplifiers in order to find the best response of the power supply (it's a linear power ...
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If a lithium cell is said to have a capacity of 20 Ah, does that mean all 20 Ah can be used?
Toshiba's SCiB 20 Ah Lithium titanate cell is said to have a nominal capacity of 20 Ah. The cutoff voltages are 1.5 V and 2.7 V. Does this mean that all 20 Ah of charge exist between those two cutoff ...
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Power supply destroyed when I connected positive line before ground
I have a few switching dc-to-dc power supplies (36V to 3.5V) which gets destroyed when I connect the positive input line before the ground.
When I connect the positive line first, some very quick ...
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Battery Powered System and Input Capacitance
I have a battery powered system in which the battery is connected to a buck/boost converter to derive 3.3V from two or three AA batteries. The regulator I'm using is a TI TPS63050, and it has a power ...
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power supply by using stepdown transformer
i was trying to make 5V, 1Apower supply using stepdown transformer, some doides and capacitors and finally 7805 regulator. however when i tried to drive servo motor from it i was not getting stable ...
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Finding Norton voltage and resistance and max power
My directions for this problem are to find the power delivered when RL=3 and then find the maximum power.
simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
I found Rth = R1//R2 = 1 ...
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Solar Panel Not Powering Toy DC Motor
I made a 15v solar panel from garden lights which supplies 50mA of current in direct sunlight. For some reason it doesn't power a simple dc motor which can run on a 1.5v battery. Why isn't it powering ...
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How can we visualize active reactive and apparent power as areas in time domain?
Regarding AC power feeding an impedance, is it possible to plot an example of V and I versus time for an inductive load R+jwL and especially the instantaneous power on the same plot where we can mark/...
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What would be the recommended way of making a USB meter/controller [closed]
I would like to make a “USB monitoring device” with one USB power input and two USB power outputs.
The needed features are:
voltage metering
current metering
sense an output being used
individual ...
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Designing a regulated 12VDC and 5VDC power supply
New here and trying to build a very regulated 12VDC and 5 VDC power supply for RPi. Is this circuit okay or overkill?
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Neon sign transformer as power supply
Can I use a high voltage neon sign transformer to charge a HV capacitor?
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HV Capacitor power [closed]
Hi does anyone know what kind of high voltage power DC supply do I need using UK 50Hz to charge a high voltage capacitor 50/25kV.
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How can I change step-down my variable input voltage?
Ok so here's the deal:
I have a variable DC Voltage source from 0-10V.
I need to step that down to a variable source of 0-3V.
This 0-3V DC will be fed to an Analog to Digital converter in a ...
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Power use question for a trail camera
I am trying to calculate how long that a trail camera can be deployed before the batteries run out. The trail camera in question is a Reconyx HyperFire 2.
Here is a useful review of the trail camera ...
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What are these programming terminals for a 2 kW power supply?
Does anyone recognize the programming terminals on the real panel of this power supply? I would like to get the 50 amps out.
It is an ATE1 made by Redfern radio, it is an old army surplus.
Going in ...
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Powering multiple WS2812B strips from different sources, are all grounds connected?
I'm looking to confirm if I need to connect the ground of 2 LED strips which have different power sources.
Adafruit says
The key is to have all of the ground pins among the strips connected in ...
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Does connecting LEDs in parallel use more current then connecting them in series in my circuit?
Sorry if this is a dumb question, I need a sanity check on this stuff.
Is it possible to give LEDs varying current, without sacrificing efficiency? Basically I have 4 LEDs which could all use ...
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Powering a device, which power supply?
I've got a device with a 12V input requirement like this:
But I've got no idea what the name of this input type is, and after searching for the correct supply (needs to be powered from a 240V mains ...
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Kirchhoff's laws circuit, How to calculate unknown resistor?
First time here! I got a question on a test that I cant get my head around.
How do I calculate value of R2 ?
Is it possible ?
Thanks in advance !
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UART pins to unpowered MCU?
I'm using a USB-UART IC with an MCU, which is powered from a battery.
The USB-UART IC is powered from USB connector, not from the battery, so that I don't need to open up a console every time when ...
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Is it necessary to separate DC power cables and data cables?
I have had this discussion with my colleague earlier. A DC power supply is non-alternating, so the magnetic field a DC power wire generates is constant (is it?). Now, I know the rule is to separate ...
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What are these latching wire-to-board power entry connectors called?
What are these connectors called?
They are very common for supplying power to PCBs; the latch keeps them in place.
This particular instance has 3.5mm/.138in centers, but I see them a lot, usually ...
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Is it safe to abruptly remove Arduino power? [closed]
If I have an Arduino, can I abruptly turn the power on and off without corrupting it? If I am designing a product that has an on/off switch, do I need to incorporate a delay before turning off the ...
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Harvest energy from ultra low current and high voltage source?
I have a sensor which can produce voltage upto 10 V but can only produce 50 nA of current. I tried to harvest energy using TI's BQ25570 evaluation board but the current is too low to kickstart the ...
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Under what conditions does a VSC require a DC-link capacitor?
For basic, conventional converters, such as the three-phase two- and three-level converters, the use of a DC-link capacitor makes sense to me. Considering only reactive power applications, it makes ...
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Why a pure resistive AC circuit absorbs power at all times according to this equation
Here is the equation of average power in a pure resistive AC circuit:
"Fundamentals of electric circuits - Alexander Sadiku"
How this equation imply that the circuit absorbs power all times, I ...
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creating artifical neutral point in delta connection
I am trying to measure 3 phase 3wire and 3 phase 4 wire L_L voltage and L_N voltage.Circuit i am looking is common for both.
In star connection i will get an neutral point for reference to read the ...
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Can anyone identify this diode? S69D
I’m attempting to repair a totally dead Panasonic SC-HC30DB and have found a faulty diode in the secondary part of the SMPS. However, I can’t identify this diode marked S69D as you can see from the ...
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Measuring Power across a dummy load - use voltage or current?
I have a high power 8Ω resistor dummy load (approximating a speaker) which is being driven from the output of an audio amplifier.
I want to measure the power consumption and display the results on an ...
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Will cutting data line of USB port can supply the right amount of current it is attached to?
I want to use a USB cable and an AC to DC adapter as a supply to my electronics project. I plan to connect the USB cable to the USB port on the AC to DC adapter then I will cut the other end of the ...
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Reactive vs Real Power in DC-DC Converters
I don't understand which form of power, reactive or real, should be dominant in a maximally efficient DC-DC boost converter.
As the circuit charges the inductor, the current and voltage will be out ...
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USB Type-C DRP Integrated Switch/Interface Chip
I would like to experiment with a power bank design with a single usb type-c port. The port should have dual role, source current for charging other devices as well as sink current for charging itself....
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Power source project
I’m currently a computer engineering student from lorma colleges and we’re currently doing our design project.
Our project is called an advance helmet. A helmet that is capable on creating a ...
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Power supply wires melted. Is there a way to fix it
We were testing a peltier module and turning on and off the power supply when magic smoke formed and it stopped working. The smoke happened immediately after the supply was turned on again. We were ...
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How do devices that are rated for 120/240 volts work?
I am about to go over seas and when considering powered items I am bringing, some things state they can take both 120 and 240 volts. What do devices usually do to make sure their output is the same ...
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Crude Li-Po Battery Charging. Is it safe?
So I have this drone and I want to play with it but there are no chargers for it nor are there cables for this kind of li-po here but I have minimal knowledge with electronics, just enough to make ...
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How is Line and Phase Voltage the same for a Delta connected system?
I am having a little bit of confusion for some reason understanding how the phase and line voltage can be the same for a delta connected system, i understand why the current is different for the phase ...
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Reactive Power at Slack Bus
When computing the power flow solution, we find the (1) voltage angles at (a) load nodes and (b) non-slack generator nodes, and (2) voltage magnitudes at the (a) load nodes. We can then compute the ...
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Steady state stability of power system
Is it by reducing fault clearing time or decreasing generator inertia for second question
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Power Transformer question to power a motor load
So I bought a toroidal power transformer that can output 117Vac, 12.8A and has a power rating of 1.5kVA in order to power a motor that requires 115Vac, 13A. I wanted to see if this would be viable to ...
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Total Power Dissipation - Design Margin
It is good practice to ensure some design margin for the electronic circuit in terms of absolute maximum ratings.
What is the proper way of selecting such a margin for Total Power Dissipation?
Let's ...
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Rise time and fall time issue in the power MOSFET
In our automated design due to MOSFET obsolete we have changed new MOSFET which gives us rise and fall time issue at the frequency applied from 10Khz to 500Khz. when we use the power MOSFET as Load ...
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Build 100-240v Power Adapter
I am trying to power a 5v circuit from any voltage between 100-240v. I know it is possible to do this with a transformerless power supply, but only for a single voltage (e.g. 120v only), but how do I ...
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Supply one device with two power supplies
i would like to ask if my schematics is ok.
I have one (or more) device (here symbolic as "R") which are supplied by a main power supply. I would like to support them also with an usv for the ...
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Why am I measuring the power different than the given rated power?
There is a solenoid-valve where I measure its resistance as 55 Ohm across its terminals. The photo of its label is shown below:
Above it says 24V DC 8W. But I measure the solenoid's DC resistance as ...
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So I bought a 3.2VA 15V transformer instead. This should do a better job for the voltage regulator? – [duplicate]
Voltage regulator not outputing desired voltage and extremely hot
This means that there will be only something like 700mW of power so no heatsink is needed.
