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    John Errington's Tutorial On Power Supply Design

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    1. This document provides guidelines and examples for designing simple power supply circuits, including smoothed unregulated and regulated supplies. 2. For an unregulated supply, you need a transformer rated for the desired output voltage and current, a bridge rectifier rated for higher than the output voltage and current, and a smoothing capacitor sized based on the output current. 3. A regulated supply adds a voltage regulator IC, which requires increasing the transformer voltage rating by the regulator's dropout voltage typically 3V, to maintain the desired output voltage under varying loads.

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    1. This document provides guidelines and examples for designing simple power supply circuits, including smoothed unregulated and regulated supplies. 2. For an unregulated supply, you need a transformer rated for the desired output voltage and current, a bridge rectifier rated for higher than the output voltage and current, and a smoothing capacitor sized based on the output current. 3. A regulated supply adds a voltage regulator IC, which requires increasing the transformer voltage rating by the regulator's dropout voltage typically 3V, to maintain the desired output voltage under varying loads.

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    1. This document provides guidelines and examples for designing simple power supply circuits, including smoothed unregulated and regulated supplies. 2. For an unregulated supply, you need a transformer rated for the desired output voltage and current, a bridge rectifier rated for higher than the output voltage and current, and a smoothing capacitor sized based on the output current. 3. A regulated supply adds a voltage regulator IC, which requires increasing the transformer voltage rating by the regulator's dropout voltage typically 3V, to maintain the desired output voltage under varying loads.

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    John Errington's Tutorial On Power Supply Design

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    1. This document provides guidelines and examples for designing simple power supply circuits, including smoothed unregulated and regulated supplies. 2. For an unregulated supply, you need a transformer rated for the desired output voltage and current, a bridge rectifier rated for higher than the output voltage and current, and a smoothing capacitor sized based on the output current. 3. A regulated supply adds a voltage regulator IC, which requires increasing the transformer voltage rating by the regulator's dropout voltage typically 3V, to maintain the desired output voltage under varying loads.

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    John Errington's tutorial on Power Supply Design

    Rules of Thumb and example designs

    1: Smoothed unregulated supply.

    For an output of Vout volts DC at Iout


    amps max you need the following
    Introduction
    (minimum values):
    Transformer
    Transformer: Mains : Vrms rated at
    and rectifier
    Vout volts, Vout*Iout*1.25 watts.
    Smoothing
    Bridge Rectifier: rated 3 * Vout at
    Ripple Current around 2 * Iout

    Load Capacitor: 5000uF * Iout at 1.5 * Vout


    regulation

    Design
    Example: Design a simple capacitor smoothed DC supply to operate from 240V mains
    Example 1
    and provide 24V at 2A.

    Transformer: 240:24V RMS rated 24*2*1.25 = 60VA


    Voltage
    Regulation Rectifier: 3 * 24 = 76V @ 2 * 2 = 4A (get 100V 5A)

    Voltage Capacitor: 5000*2 = 10,000uF at 24*1.5 = 36V


    References

    Voltage 2: Simple regulated supply


    Regulation
    Simple cct We can add a
    commercial regulator
    Voltage IC to the circuit above
    Regulation and but will need to
    analysis increase some values,
    to provide for the
    Voltage
    "drop out voltage"
    Regulation
    needed for the
    precision
    regulator to operate.
    circuit
    This is typically 3V.
    Voltage
    Transformer: Mains : Vrms rated at (Vout +3) volts, (Vout+3)*Iout*1.25 watts.
    Regulation
    Conclusion Bridge Rectifier: rated 3 * Vout at around 2 * Iout

    Capacitor: 5000uF * Iout at 1.5 * Vout


    Current
    sources
    The 78XX series regulators are inexpensive and can provide voltages of 5,6,8,9,10,12, 15,18 &
    Constant 24 Volts at 1A.
    current
    For higher currents (or different voltages) the LM338 regulators can provide up to 5A when
    mounted on a suitable heat sink.
    Feedback
    For more precision, or better flexibility, use one of the designs shown earler.
    High voltages

    Rules of Example: Design a simple regulated DC supply to operate from 240V mains and provide
    18V at 4A.
    thumb
    Transformer: 240:21V RMS rated 21*4*1.25 = 105VA (24V 120VA)

    Rectifier: 3 * 21 = 63V @ 4 * 2 = 8A (get 63V 8A )


    Capacitor: 5000*4 =
    20,000uF at 21*1.5 =
    26V

    Regulator: LM338
    with heat sink

    R1: 1k2 R2: 16k

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