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Furthermore, the souree-to-ground voltage is also reduced thus ensuring that VGS 1 Kept well above the MOSFET's threshold voltage forall pra nations. used two SONDS N-channel MOSFETS in parallel to reduce the total Ron and improve elabiiy.n this design, the maximum current should be about 7A and it 1s limited by the SW resistor | used: not by the MOSFETs, Larger currents can b¢ < wath a resistor capable of 10 or 20 W which I didnt have handy). The input voltage should net exceed ¥ maximum VDS for these MOSFETS). As an added protection measure, | added a power MGV trom the input to ground to protect the MOSFETs against high-voltage tra os > | 882 ie oO F i . se*EB 3 “ J = = 4 ar F ee = im pe aye oo —<——_] ; owe 30 FF] hw stant x ent Load cscust “The U2A OPAMP is a volt suffering the ‘set voltage from the resistive divider formed by the LM. rmulli-turn pot is not available, you can ure twa single turn pots in seies instead (100K and LOK for example). The U2A output drives another res before eriving the panel meter. This was needed in my case to ‘calibrate’ the panel meter independently f is needed, this potion can be skipped, The switch SW2 witches between veltage and current re you can quickly calculate the power dissipation. Switch SW2 allows you to se the current ‘programmed! by the resistive divider even ifm load This sn posted inthe eevblog one cannot know exactly the ‘programmed Inec current until the input terminals are co worst-case and the multi-tum potentiometer RVL Ifa ve divider voltage ane eu ent readings. only one reading 1 [ound this tobe very useful in normal operation so connected, snvenience’ feature Isaw implemented in ancthe m that turns-oat tobe quite important Without this switch ected. In the b case scenario this is just an a ply under test ! 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The U28 0 the Bsvo MOSFET the averinad protection threshold. One cots atgue that thew Mis alan voltage comparator with hysteresis and is sed to control 2 12V fan (reuse from an ald PC povser supply). A INAOD: diode protects rolled net inductive lick-back voltages fan ac WV2 shows abviousty be lower than i always De on. While tis is Certainly a vais approach, | peer not to deal with the fan nose when the pouies dissipated inthe load i low and found this cit ccomplish this goal quite nice! Lessons Learned I deci’ spas bl this cise in i Je Pertboand rather than designing a dedicstec pet In retrospect suite scent and actually leaned abit her’ always asiver lining). sos. mistake As ater learned the parasit sssyp reading quite abit on + those interested inthe topic | ecommend Ron Mancins Stability ang inp capacitance” from Texas Instmaments RY anc CS was my firs approach at increasing the phase margin but proved insufficient I ended-up using 2 ‘heaey-handed’, dominant-pole compensation technique by adding capacitors CS end C7 to the

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