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You won't need a cap As an electrical engineer, jeremie is trained to make everything super stable. However, the device you are connecting to the LM1084 most likely has a filter cap of it's own - otherwise i'm certain it isn't a microprocessor that you're running so it'll be fine
no that would be find to run the ping sensor with out the caps. but if you did use the caps then you could make a 5 v. break out because most of the other sensors will be looking for 5v. so you may can use it to power other such devices.
I use this setup, but there's hardly and light coming from lights I wired up. (Yes they do light up on 5V from another battery pack) Direct to the battery the lights are bright as day. Going from my science homework, do I need a resistor or something before the power enters the regulator?
Thanks, but I want to figure out why these don't work. I found that the regulator has an ADJ mark on it, though the regulator on the ez-b v3 has a 5.0 mark instead. Could this be I got the wrong one?
Sounds like maybe you got something like a NTE1929 by mistake. They look about the same. I ordered an LM1084 from an ebay seller and wound up getting a TIP310C transistor instead. It was only like $1 so I didn't bother trying to return it.
"The LM1084 is available in an adjustable version, which can set the output voltage with only two external resistors. It is also available in three fixed voltages: 3.3V, 5.0V and 12.0V. The fixed versions intergrate the adjust resistors. "
My ability to read schematics is too out of practice to follow the diagram on that page, but apparently you use resisters to set the adjustable output.
Thanks Richard, but I'm not comfortable with giving out my mailing address. Thanks for the offer though. I guess I have to buy the right version this time.
I use this setup, but there's hardly and light coming from lights I wired up. (Yes they do light up on 5V from another battery pack) Direct to the battery the lights are bright as day. Going from my science homework, do I need a resistor or something before the power enters the regulator?
Any ideas?
Here's a link to where I was told to use LM1084's.
DJ in second post.
YAY or NAY for these regulators
Alan
http://www.ti.com/product/lm1084
"The LM1084 is available in an adjustable version, which can set the output voltage with only two external resistors. It is also available in three fixed voltages: 3.3V, 5.0V and 12.0V. The fixed versions intergrate the adjust resistors.
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My ability to read schematics is too out of practice to follow the diagram on that page, but apparently you use resisters to set the adjustable output.
Alan
JK_Part ebay
You could still use the adjustable version of the LM1084 if you have a few common resistor values and follow the pictured diagram:
Use a R2 value of 1kohm and an R1 value of 330ohms and it should give you a value of 5V. Equation is 1.25V(1 + R2/R1) = 1.25V(1+1000/330) = 5.04V
I sure hope they are Robot-doc!