https://www.addohms.com/tags/regulator/ Recent content in Regulator on AddOhms by Bald Engineer Hugo en-US Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:51:00 +0000 https://www.addohms.com/voltage-divider-regulator/ Sat, 14 Oct 2017 08:51:00 +0000 https://test.addohms.com/?page_id=72 <p>Previously, we looked at <a href="https://www.addohms.com/voltage-dividers">resistor voltage dividers</a>. Sometimes I get questions about using these instead of regulators. In this video, I show why that doesn&rsquo;t work. In fact, I go one step further and show that Zener regulators do not work either.</p> <h2 id="voltage-divider-as-a-regulator-show-notes">Voltage Divider as a Regulator Show Notes</h2> <h3 id="other-videos-to-watch">Other videos to watch</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.addohms.com/voltage-dividers/">#13: Voltage Dividers</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.addohms.com/arduino-vs-raspberry-pi/">#7: Comparing Uno to Pi</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.addohms.com/linear-regulator/">#17: Linear Regulators</a></li> </ul> <h3 id="links">Links</h3> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.baldengineer.com/zener-diode-regulators.html">Zener Diode makes for a lousy regulator 3</a> (<a href="http://baldengineer.com">baldengineer.com</a>)</li> </ul> <p>In the episode, I am featuring the <a href="http://adafru.it/2471">Adafruit Huzzah ESP8266 breakout 4</a>. I highly recommend this board if you are interested in the ESP8266. It doesn’t have a serial to USB interface. However, it is far more reliable (and usable) than those worthless $5 8266 boards on eBay. (By Far.)</p> https://www.addohms.com/switching-regulator/ Tue, 12 Apr 2016 08:51:00 +0000 https://test.addohms.com/?page_id=64 <h2 id="video">Video</h2> <div style="position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden;"> <iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share; fullscreen" loading="eager" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CPvA-uS0dNY?autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;end=0&amp;loop=0&amp;mute=0&amp;start=0" style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; border:0;" title="YouTube video"></iframe> </div> <p>Switching regulators make use of the energy storage properties of capacitors and inductors. A transistor, or switch, controls the charging and discharging. This method makes for an efficient regulator but can be difficult to design.</p> <h2 id="show-notes">Show Notes</h2> <p>Here are links to the products mentioned in AddOhms #18:</p>