All posts in the 'Power supply' Category
Simple negative power supply (-5V / -12V / -15V)
Sometimes you need a simple negative power supply. The best example is the contrast PSU for common small LCD device. Building -5V from a battery or a wallmart supply isnโt really easy.Here is a simple design small device that is able to provide -5V, -12V, -15V. He used the MAX 764/765/766 series.[more]
Zigbee, formally IEEE 802.15.4, is another short-range radio standard that uses the 2.4 GHz “microwave oven” band, alongside wireless Ethernet and Bluetooth. Compared to these others, Zigbee is most suited for low-power applications involving simple microcontrollers, for example wireless sensing, home and industrial automation, and so on. Its basic parameters are a data rate of up to 250 kbits/s and a typical range of 50 m.A small Linux box like the NSLU2 (aka Slug: 266 MHz XScale ARM processor, filesystem on a USB flash drive, takes about 5W, runs Debian GNU/Linux and other distributions) could be useful in a Zigbee deployment. For example, an always-on Slug could be responsible for logging data sent by remote sensors, and generating graphs on web pages, sending email alerts and so on.[more]
Builtin batteries in gadgets have some advantages: they have more power and capacity, they last longer and they are usually lighter than replaceable batteries. But they have a huge disadvantage as well: when they are empty you’re out of power until you are back at home to charge them. The idea is simple. Use two standard AA batteries and some electronics to power your device through an USB cable. The electonics are needed to convert the 3 Volts of input delivered by your batteries to the 5 Volts wanted by the USB specs.[more]
A DC-to-DC converter is a device that accepts a DC input voltage and produces a DC output voltage. Typically the output produced is at a different voltage level than the input. In addition, DC-to-DC converters are used to provide noise isolation, power bus regulation, etc.[more]
This a wide rang input DC-DC converter that is designed to accept a range of input voltages that are present in a carโs electrical system which not alway equal 13.8V, and provide a regulated 12v output. Nominally, the battery voltage is about 13.8v, but when the engine is being started, the voltage can often droop down to 6 or 7 volts for a short time, and peaks can be present somewhat above the nominal voltage as well. Because the input voltage can be either above or below the desired output of 12v, the converter needed to be a buck-boost configuration.[more]
