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MEXICOWANDERER
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Jan 29, 2015

Powering My New LED 10-Volt 10-watt R.V. Lights

12 Volts over-drives the chips by a bunch. Three diodes in series in a PITA. I have a bunch of LM7809 regulators. With a silicon rectifier biasing the negative...or not. Can this regulator surv...
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GordonThree
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Jan 29, 2015
I'll just leave this here

Buck Converters

Nothing wrong with 1960's linear voltage regulators, but I'm just sayin... might be time for something new.

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