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- From: d1temp@dtek.chalmers.se (Michael Tempsch)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: 12 V -> 3V, 0.6 A
- Message-ID: <d1temp.721377639@dtek.chalmers.se>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 06:40:39 GMT
- References: <sehari.721280522@class1.iastate.edu> <1992Nov9.114833.26094@bernina.ethz.ch>
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- schaerer@isi.ethz.ch (Thomas Schaerer) writes:
-
- >Babak Sehari (sehari@iastate.edu) wrote:
- >:
- >: There are many ways to do this the cheapest way is to put:
- >:
- >: 12-3
- >: --------- = 13 diodes in series with the input voltage of your CD player,
- >: 0.7
- >:
- >: Like this:
- >:
- >: +12V -|>|-|>|-|>|-|>|-|>|-|>|-|>|-|>|-|>|-|>|-|>|-|>|- +3V
- >: GRD --------------------------------------------------
-
- AT 600 mA the voltagedrop over a diod will be more than 0.7V.
- I've got one of these in my car (but at 6V out, using 7 diods)
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- | BTW, all electronic components | d1temp@dtek.chalmers.se |
- | run on smoke. If you let the smoke out, | In real life |
- | they won't work anymore. | Michael Tempsch |
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