Lively discussions have sprung up here in editor Aalyia Shaukat’s Design Ideas regarding the limitations and quirks of, and design tricks for, the current control topologies shown in Figure 1. Figure 1. How to control amps of I OUT with mA of ...
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 ...
LM317 fans will recognize Figure 1 as the traditional LM317 constant current source topology. It closely regulates I OUT = V ADJ /R S by forcing the OUTPUT pin to be V ADJ = 1.25 V positive relative to the ADJ pin. Thus, I OUT = V ADJ /R S to a ...
Receiving infrared (IR) signals while conserving system power is difficult, and typically requires the inclusion of complex power-management routines in the firmware. You can avoid that problem by disconnecting power to the microcontroller when IR ...