The standard NPN regulator requires about 2 – 2.5V minimum because of the 2 VBE's + 1 SAT required to operate the NPN Darlington power transistor and PNP driver. The power dissipation caused by the ...

When the fuel gauge of his 1975 Triumph Spitfire started going off the scale, the collected knowledge of the Internet indicated that [smellsofbikes] needed to replace a faulty voltage regulator beh… ...

1-MHz PWM Regulator Lowers Current Draw Jan. 18, 2005 Lowering the boom on power consumption, the MIC2203 PWM step-down (buck) regulator draws just 650 µA of supply current and attains ...