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- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!wingnut!troyz
- From: troyz@microsoft.com (Troy Zerr)
- Subject: Re: Power Supply Question
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.022542.7082@microsoft.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 02:25:42 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- Summary: Look at "Best of Ciarcia"
- References: <C1AH65.KGp@acsu.buffalo.edu> <1993Jan23.100932.5186@wkuvx1.bitnet>
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- In article <C1AH65.KGp@acsu.buffalo.edu>, v064mcqs@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (NEIL GANDLER) writes:
- >
- > Im designing a small power supply. I would like to know if using a 12v
- > center tap transformer when full wave rectified and smoothed be more than
- > 15 volts to allow a 12 volt regulator 7812 work properly. From my understanding
- > the 78 series regulators need a 3 volt difference atleast.
- >
- > Neil Gandler
-
- "The Best of Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar" has an article on designing
- linear power supplies. I highly recommend it. Available at your local
- nerd bookstore.
-
- -- Troy
-