Thunderchild
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Well I need to make a 12 v to 5 volt converter. Now as of yet I do have the 1.5 amp version of the 7805 but i am not please at chucking out over half the power in heat.
Now the design of a SMPS seems somewhat complicated i suppose because it has to maintain very acurate voltage output and minimal ripple.
so i thought what about a simple switching circuit to come down to like 6 volts and then a linear regulator that only drops 1 volt.
so I started some basic simulation in electronics workbench 5.2 I connected a square wave generator with a duty cycle of 50 % to what is a basic LC low pass filter, now with just those components in the project the obvious happened the voltage very slowly rose to 12 volts, but by connecting just a 30 ohm resistor the voltage was a steady 5 volts and also with a 3 ohm resistor, I found that two LC filters made much less ripple.
Now my question is, is it as simple as that ? or is the simulation program missing out on something ?
Now the design of a SMPS seems somewhat complicated i suppose because it has to maintain very acurate voltage output and minimal ripple.
so i thought what about a simple switching circuit to come down to like 6 volts and then a linear regulator that only drops 1 volt.
so I started some basic simulation in electronics workbench 5.2 I connected a square wave generator with a duty cycle of 50 % to what is a basic LC low pass filter, now with just those components in the project the obvious happened the voltage very slowly rose to 12 volts, but by connecting just a 30 ohm resistor the voltage was a steady 5 volts and also with a 3 ohm resistor, I found that two LC filters made much less ripple.
Now my question is, is it as simple as that ? or is the simulation program missing out on something ?