When I started learning about and designing SMPS circuits in 2008, I read from various books and online resources – application notes, reference manuals, design notes, design tips, circuit designs and various tutorials. I understood most of the concepts. But the mathematics was complex and there were so many formulae and calculations. They were not all present in any single book or document. Making all the necessary calculations using the different formulae available in all the different documents was difficult, tiring and cumbersome. While I was learning SMPS and started getting a hold of the basics, I was learning Visual Basic at school. During the mid-year school break, I learnt from various tutorials online and practiced during the school vacation to develop my Visual Basic skills. After I learnt most of the basics, I decided to put my skills to the test. It would be good practice and I could make a useful program in the process. I started coding using the information present in va...
This circuit employs the popular and easy to find LM3914 IC. This kind of IC is quite very simple to drive, requires no voltage regulators (it features a built in voltage regulator) and can be powered from almost every resource. This LM3914 IC based on Simple Battery Tester is very simple to explain: Once the test switch is pushed, the Car battery voltage is supply into a high impedance voltage divider. His function is to divide 12V to 1, 25V (or lower values to reduced values). This solution is much better than enabling the internal voltage regulator set the 12V sample voltage to be feed into the internal voltage divider simply because it cannot regulate 12V if the voltage falls lower (linear regulators only step down). Simply wiring with no change, the regulator provides secure 1, 25V which can be fed into the precision internal resistor cascade to create sample voltages to the internal comparators. In any case the default establishing let you to determine voltages between 8 and 12V...
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