Questions tagged [power-supply]
An electronic device which supplies electrical energy to a load. Can be AC or DC input. Typically DC output.
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Positive and negative terminal of a Tesla Coil
I'm trying to build a Tesla coil, I'm using it as a large voltage multiplier, though I can't figure out where is the output positive and negative terminal. thanks!
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Which power supply choose for lineal actuators?
I have two actuators each of them with the following characteristics: 16 inch, 12v, load 750 N, travel speed 10mm / s, duty cycle 25%
BUT Current Draw is not specified, and I have no access to the ...
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X Ray Transformer with Full Wave Rectifier Design
I current am in possession of a center tapped X-ray transformer that can supply 80 kV and 10 mA. However, I need this transformer to supply approximately 0 to -37 kV DC at around 8 mA. In order to ...
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What are these soldered/un-soldered dotted-shapes? on the traces which don't have soldermask?
Please look at this image(see the soldered/un-soldered dotted-shapes which are identified by arrows).
This circuit belongs to a laptop adaptor.
What are these soldered/un-soldered dotted-shapes?
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Why are these traces shaped in such way?
Please look at this image(see the PCB traces within the circles).
This circuit belongs to a laptop adaptor.
What are those parallel soldered-traces on the PCB traces?
Why aren't they soldered to ...
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How to add 0.2V per Ampère that device draws? (Voltage drop compensation)
I have noticed that many mobile phone chargers already do this: For each 1 A of current that the mobile phone draws, the charger's output will be increased by 0.05V or 0.1V or something similar, to ...
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Soldering back the disconnected wires from the charger board [on hold]
The attached link images are the front and back photo of the board inside my charger. This charger is used to charger my son's toy car. Unfortunately, the wire soldered on this chip got disconnected. ...
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Parallel Transistors Current Sharing
If we have a linear power supply, which uses parallel power transistors (NPN) as series element, with emitter current sharing resistors, then which is the maximum acceptable difference of current ...
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Capacitive power supply
What is the role of the BJT and capacitor C2 in the capacitive power supply circuit shown below?
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What does this symbol on the box of power supply mean?
I always see this symbole behind electronic devices.
A close-up image of the symbol:
What does it mean?
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Why does this laptop adaptor have two metal shields with different thicknesses?
Yesterday, I opened my laptop adaptor to learn something. First off, faced to this kind of shielding:
There are two shields that cover the circuit. A thick shield which is covered by a thin shield ...
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Is this IR LED driver circuit with a transistor OK?
I am making a custom IR array board with a custom Arduino (only ATMEGA328 and necessary components.) So please tell me will this be fine or if I need to make some changes.
IR LED = 940nm, continuous ...
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Adequate Power Supply for 300 Daisy-Chained LEDs [on hold]
I have 300 LEDs (ws2812b) wired in a series. They were sold as 150 LED/5 meters and rated to power at 9W/m, so 45W/5m strip. I would need 90 Watts to power my entire 300 LED strip. I have a 3-rail ...
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Emitter OR rather than diode OR
I'm building a power supply for a product that uses a 5V regulator if external power is connected or three alkaline cells if not. I don't want to waste half a volt or more from the cells by diode ...
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Adequate Power Supply for 300 Daisy-Chained LEDs
I have 300 LEDs (WS2812B) wired in a series. They were sold as 150 LED/5 meters and rated to power at 9W/m, so 45W/5m strip. I would need 90 Watts to power my entire 300 LED strip. I have a 3-rail ...
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Motor performance
If I was to run an electric motor rated at 24V 20A at 15V 10A and at 10V 15A what would the difference in performance be? Assuming everything is rated to safely handle more than that power.
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Replacing USB power with simple power supply
I've bought a bunch of dlink wifi cameras for my home. These all come with 5V wall wart psus connecting to the camera using what appears to be a simple 2 core cable terminated in a micro USB socket.
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Another Power Supply question
I am trying to troubleshoot a problem with a battery charger that accepts 11-18V DC input and can output up to 24V/8A/80W.
The power supply I am using is rated for 12V10A, but if I select 10A 8.4V ...
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Using a 12V battery while simultaneously charging via Heavy Duty battey charger
Very similar to a question asked and answered but using solar panels..
BUT this time I'm asking, Can I use my 135Ah deep cycle battery to power a 2000W inverter and at the same time charge my battery ...
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Backup power supply using capacitors to help esp8266 run for 3-4 seconds after power failure [on hold]
I need to make a circuit with introduction of capacitors in parallel with input supply of esp8266(3.3Vdc) to run it extra 3-4 secs after power failure,
Is it possible to gain extra 3-4 secs just ...
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Combining non-isolated switch mode power supplies in parallel into a single supply
I'm trying to combine several SMPSs each having a ~350VDC output @100mA each.
Background:
Purchased an unused batch of small DC->DC SMPSs in good industrial quality. Unfortunately they're too weak ...
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switching two power sources
I have used the circuit below to switch between two power sources. The purpose was to have a backup power source once the other is switched off by a controller in the system.
While testing the ...
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What chips can be used to design an Anti-Counterfeit /Authentication circuit? [on hold]
I am an intern within the R&D branch of a company that designs tools that must operate with low noise at extremely high external temperatures (upwards of 175C). My boss asked that I look into ...
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Peak Detector with Reset
I'm trying to make a N.Peak Detector with reset functions. I've tried various modification to the classic peak detector without any success.
What I'm trying to accomplish is:
Detect the negative peak ...
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DC-DC converter not simulating correctly
I am trying to design a solar charge controller to charge a 12V battery, my solar panel is made of 9 cells that are 5W and 0.5V per-cell. I would like to make a booster circuit to get the voltage up ...
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Power Supply for Arduino on breadboard (ATMEGA328PU) from a car battery
I wanna power my Arduino on breadboard (ATMega328PU) from a 12V car battery.
simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
Is this safe ?
What should I add more to make it a ...
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Not getting 2.5A or 2 A DC current
simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab
I checking the output of the circuit's current by attaching multimeter(ON 10 A) in series with a load of 3 Ohms resistor. But I am ...
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Limit 540 mA CC driver to 300 mA?
I have five 10 W, 34 - 38 V, 300 mA LED COBs I'm wanting to run these in series but to reach the voltage and watt range in the driver, I can only find a 540 mA constant current dimmable driver. I want ...
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Exceeding voltage on STM32 Vbat pin
I want to power STM32F429 Vbat pin with an existing Lithium Ion battery on board. However, the maximum voltage on the discharging curve of this battery is 4.2v which is above the maximum operating ...
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5 V from power bank not constant when supply circuit
Now I'm working on my project which contains Arduino, LCD, electromagnetic lock, 6 channel 5v relay and 500V isolated converter. My project was designed to power by using a power bank. Now I use eloop ...
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+24VDC to 5v converter - does the positive make a difference? [migrated]
I have a fairly general question, but cannot seem to find an answer to confirm my thoughts.
I have a garage motor door, and on the top has 4 terminals - 1 and 2 for a switch button to open and close, ...
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16-Channel 12-bit PWM/Servo Shield check if it is powered by adapter [migrated]
I'm using Adafruit 16-Channel 12-bit PWM/Servo Shield with Arduino Uno controller
In setup() I have a number of default positions ...
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What current should I choose in bench top DC power supply?
Most of the time while I'm doing my university projects, I find that only voltage requirements are given for building a circuit, and how much current I should supply from a bench-top DC power supply ...
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small party without power [closed]
I am considering throwing a little party during my vacation however this will be in a place without direct access to power...
My goal is to use my laptop, a pioneer dj controller and 2 krk rokit 5's ...
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Why does a motor not work after the power supply?
I have a fairly cheap breadboard power supply and a motor.
Now if I touch the wires from the adaptor (the thing that plugs into the power supply to provide it with electricity) the motor works fine ...
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The pros and cons of tantalum and ceramics in AMS1117
Task: Make a reliable power supply for sensors and an RFID card reader.
Specifications:
Total current consumption: up to 0.7A (700 mA.)
Elements supply voltage: 3.3V
Input voltage: 5V
Working ...
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Does ESP8266 deep sleep make sense while on the power supply?
If ESP8266 is powered via a dedicated power supply 220V AC → 3.3V DC.
Is it worth it to put ESP to deep sleep in order to reduce power consumption?
For example the indoor weather station, which ...
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Solar Panel (5v/500mAh) charging USB Power bank (5v/1a)
I've been trying to find information on this but haven't found an accurate answer.
I have a USB Power Bank that has a max charging input of 5v/1a and a 5v/500mAh solar panel that can output up to 5-...
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schmitt trigger causes noise
I am trying to get a 74HC14 hex inverting schmitt trigger to work. First thing I did was connect it to a power supply.
When I connect the Vin and Ground ports to my bench power supply (5V), some ...
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Using a Computer PSU for its 12V output for high wattage loads [closed]
I'm looking to install some LED light bars (primarily designed for use on off-road cars) as fixed outdoor lighting on my property. I see they have models that use up to 700+ watts of power (for crazy ...
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Should I twist DC power and ground wires from a power supply?
Is it beneficial to twist the red/green power/ground wires from a low-voltage (~5V), relatively low current (1 to 5 A) switching, desktop power supply?
This makes my wire bundle on a desk less ...
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SMPS 5V without load, fluctuation on load TOP258PN
I am using PI Expert Online (this) to design a smps circuit for 5V, 2.5A output. I already have TOP258PN IC with me so built circuit for that.
Change from schematics: I am not using choke and using ...
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High frequency reduces power on circuit
I am not expert in electronics so there must be many errors that I am not considering. I designed a simple half wave rectifier that gives signal to a LDO voltage regulator of 3V3. In the input I have ...
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DC Power Limiting Circuit
I would like to know how to build a power limiting circuit.
The goal is to be able to combine two PSU's with the same voltage in parallel in order to increase the Power output.
From what I've tested,...
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How can I safely determine the output voltage and current of a transformer?
So I am building a Tesla coil with my partner for a senior design project.
We safely ripped out a transformer from a microwave oven. However, after a good amount of research, we were unable to find ...
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Buck/Boost converter TPS63070RNMT is not working properly
I am working on a Buck/Boost converter design which is based on Buck/Boost converter TPS63070RNMT. Below is the schematic design. All the selected components are as per the Section 9 of the datasheet.
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Would this switching power supply work?
I'm trying to design an integrated power supply to use in IoT projects that I'm working on, some including microcontrollers like the ESP8266 or ESP32. In previous projects I've made, power supply ...
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TP4056 doesn't work without power source connected [closed]
I have a problem with my TP4056 circuit.
My goal is to (solar)power a NodeMCU V3 with the TP4056. I simply connected the output from the TP4056 to VIN and GND from the NodeMCU board
The TP4056 ...
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How to obtain 360vdc from 240vac for audio use without a transformer?
I'm in the process of creating a tube guitar amplifier with an output power of ~6w (fender vibrochamp AA764) which requires the use of 360-400vdc. How could I obtain such a voltage from mains without ...
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Designing a PCB with multiple supply voltages
I'm in a process of designing a 2 layer PCB for my device. The device is a master control board, and there will be 10 daughter boards. Various peripherals and things will be connected there: I need ...
