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Salvo
May 18, 2014Explorer
The forward voltage drop of a diode is current dependent.

At 0.1 mA bias current, the diode drop is closer to 0.5V. It doesn't take much current to influence the error amp resistor divider. My recollection is you'll get 0.4 to 0.5V increase in converter output voltage. Go ahead, build it up and see what you get.
Sal

At 0.1 mA bias current, the diode drop is closer to 0.5V. It doesn't take much current to influence the error amp resistor divider. My recollection is you'll get 0.4 to 0.5V increase in converter output voltage. Go ahead, build it up and see what you get.
Sal
Cstoliker wrote:
It's silicon. Forward voltage drop is rated at 0.6v. So two in series should cap the voltage at 1.2v above max. So 15vdc. That's about perfect!
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