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- From: mikolaje@ccrs.emr.ca (Ken Mikolajek)
- Subject: Re: 12 V -> 3V, 0.6 A
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.170905.28532@emr1.emr.ca>
- Summary: A Dangerous approach
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- Organization: Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Ottawa
- References: <1992Nov7.141550.538@ludd.luth.se> <sehari.721280522@class1.iastate.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:09:05 GMT
- Lines: 67
-
- In article <sehari.721280522@class1.iastate.edu> sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari) writes:
- >In <1992Nov7.141550.538@ludd.luth.se> d89-ahg@ludd.luth.se (Anders Hedberg) writes:
- >
- >>A friend wants to listen to his CD player powered from the car.
- >
- >>The CD-player wanna have 3Volts at max 600 mA, and the car has a battery
- >>of 12 volts.
- >
- >>I thought of a LM317 or something similar, but I've never designed something
- >>alike, and I need to know how to calculate the resistor values.
- >
- >>/Anders Hedberg
- >
- >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 --------------------------------------------------
- >
- >The problem might be generated if the input voltage swings. To avoid
- >this problem try putting a 2N3055 transistor as follows:
- >
- >+12V |>|-|>|-|>|-|>|-|>|-|>|-|>|-|>|-|>|- ---+3V
- > | \_/ Emitter
- > R |
- > |--|
- > |
- > ||>|-|>|-|>|-|>|-|>|-|
- > |
- >GRD ---------------------------------------------------------+-----
- >
- >
- >R=1000 ohm
- >Trans=2n3055
- >Diodes= 1N4001 or 1N4005
- >
- > With highest regards,
- > Babak Sehari.
- >--
-
- My advice is to IGNORE this advice!! For two reasons... both of which
- may result in destruction of the poor CD player.
-
- 1) DIODES are terrific temperature sensors. Meaning the voltage drops
- may vary considerably over the ranges likely to be seen inside the car.
- The CD player may be destroyed if voltage too high or even too low is
- applied. Stacking them up like that only compounds the problem. A
- 0.1 volt change in the diode will result in a 1.3 Volt change in a
- string of 13 DIODES.
-
- 2) The power requiremens of the CD player have to be known before
- the current handling capacity of the diodes can be selected. The voltage
- drop across diodes is dependant on the current across it. Also if
- there is a failure.. does it fail OPEN or CLOSED circuit? Just imagine
- the smell when you apply 12 V across the CD ROM :)
-
- I would go for the linear regulator with some good filtering and
- make sure you fuse it properly.
-
- Ken.
-
-
-