Circuits & Schematics Supply - 8

In power supplies or battery chargers, you often need information about the current flowing in the high-side rail. Figure 1 shows a common circuit for obtaining this information. Figure 1. This method for measuring high-side supply current requires ...

Hysteretic voltage regulators offer the potential advantages of simplicity, fast response, 100%-duty-cycle operation, high efficiency at light loading, and low cost. They need no loop-compensation components to add delays; thus, response time to a ...

Designers often use relays as electrically controlled switches. Unlike transistors, their switch contacts are electrically isolated from the control input. However, the power dissipation in a relay coil may render the device unattractive in ...

You can use simple circuits to implement small, regulated plug-in power supplies. In Figure 1, a basic and versatile 5 V supply uses a zener diode and an emitter-follower transistor. You must calculate and design the transformer such that Q 1 is ...

For symmetrical applications, the circuit of Figure 4 works well. It is made up of the positive limiter already seen and a complementary negative limiter connected in parallel. A single positive reference voltage is used to control both voltage ...

I need a circuit to limit the voltage across some dissipation limited devices. It must: limit the voltage to a maximum of 1.5 V, have symmetrical limiting, be capable of accepting a current of 2 A, and leak less than 100 µA at 1 V. Two Zener ...

It is common practice to use digital open-collector outputs for control units in industrial applications. Using these outputs, you can switch loads, such as relays, lamps, solenoids, and heaters. One possible problem inherent to this type of output ...

Sometimes, you may need to make a DC/DC converter with minor components that can handle small loads. In this article, we are going to make something like that. This DC/DC converter using transistor has only a few components and can handle small ...

Lighting LEDs from a single 1.5 V cell poses a problem because their forward voltages are higher than the cell’s. The simplest way to light the LED is to use a step-up dc/dc converter. This Design Idea offers a simple and reliable alternative ...

The standard boost converter in Figure 1 uses not only IC 1 , C 1 , L 1 , D 1 , and C 2 to generate a main 5 V output, but also additional small, low-cost components to provide two auxiliary supply rails of 10 and 5 V. These auxiliary outputs are ...