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little_capacitor
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Mexico
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Posted - Feb 09 2012 :  10:32:48 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi people.

Hopefully, someone here could answer my newbie question:
In the "Power Supply" project using LM338K, what changes should i do, to add a LED as a POWER ON indicator? I'm planning to use this as a power supply for circuits requiring 9-15V.

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Aaron Cake
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Posted - Feb 12 2012 :  10:32:35 AM  Show Profile  Visit Aaron Cake's Homepage  Send Aaron Cake an ICQ Message  Send Aaron Cake a Yahoo! Message  Reply with Quote
Place the LED just before the regulator. Use any of the online LED dropping resistor calculators to figure out a resistor value for the series resistor based on the voltage of your circuit after the bridge rectifier (about 30% higher than the output of the transformer...not really critical for a simple LED though).
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little_capacitor
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Mexico
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Posted - Feb 15 2012 :  10:46:37 PM  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thank you for your answer Aaron
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