Look at this website. http://www.electronics-lab.com/projects/power/015/index.html Now I'm wondering why have the large and small caps at the input and output of the regulator. I understand that the caps help stabilize the voltage at the regulator, to keep it from oscillating, but why have a relative large and a relatively low capacitance? Since capacitors in parallel add, the outputs of the regulators essentially have 101uF of capacitance. Why not just put a 200uF cap there and call it a day? Same with the input to the regulator. There's a 2200uF in parallel with a 1uF, oooooo, 2201uF!! Why not just put a 3000uF there if you want more than 2200uF?
2007-02-15
13:49:16
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joshnya68
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