DRÄPPEL Posted October 27, 2005 Report Share Posted October 27, 2005 Hi!I'm about to order some parts for the MBFM project and ran into something that made me scratch my head. For the +/-12V power supply needed to power the TL074s it seems like you need a 2x12V transformer (actually I think it's alright to power them with anything from +-5 to +-18 but i want to power a AOUT module with the same psu) according to http://www.ucapps.de/mbhp/mbhp_opl3_psu.pdf, but (here comes the confusing part) doesn't the bridge rectifiers and voltage regulators drop the 12v supplied by the transformer to something below 12v? In which case I would need a 2x15V transformer. Is there something I'm missing or am I right?Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synapsys Posted October 27, 2005 Report Share Posted October 27, 2005 Hi Drappel,When you apply full-wave rectification to an ac signal the dc output level is actually higher than the ac level. The general formula is that the dc output in volts will be 1.414 times the input. Thus you can expect to have about 12*1.414 or 16.97 volts dc feeding the regulators. In actual practice this voltage will be somewhat lower due to the diode drops, you mentioned, as well as other losses in the transformer. A good rule of thumb is that the ac voltage of the transformer secondary should be about 0.8 times the expected unregulated dc output from the bridge.Hope this helps...Regards,Synapsys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DRÄPPEL Posted October 28, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 28, 2005 That explains everything, thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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