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gossen lunasix 3 - my power supply
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 15, 2015 11:29 pm    Post subject: gossen lunasix 3 - my power supply Reply with quote

i built a little plastic box and inside there are a circuit board and one alkaline battery (9v)
the circuit is very simply.

V1 is 9V
LM317LZ is a voltage regulator
with the variable resistor r2 you must change the value of the output voltage (2.7V)
Vout = output voltage
Vin = input voltage
Vout = 1.25 * (r2/r1)
vin - vout = 6.3 volt
LM317LZ requires 0.69mA with 6.3 volt of difference between vin and vout so you can put a fixed resistor (3.9kohm) in the output (in parallel to the C2....electrolytic capacitor is better in this case) in parallel to this fixed resistor there are also the two wires for the power supply of the gossen



the output voltage will be 2.7 forever.... also when the input voltage decreases !

IT WORKS !


PostPosted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 12:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

A diode on the + pole inside the meter works just as well. But alkalines act differently to the old mercury battery.

This would power my Canon EF for years if you could fit it inside!


PostPosted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 12:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

philslizzy wrote:
A diode on the + pole inside the meter works just as well. But alkalines act differently to the old mercury battery.

This would power my Canon EF for years if you could fit it inside!


i have 2.7V .... and it does not change with the time...because LM317LZ maintains it


PostPosted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 10:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice work metallaro1980!

philslizzy wrote:
A diode on the + pole inside the meter works just as well. But alkalines act differently to the old mercury battery.

This would power my Canon EF for years if you could fit it inside!


nonsense.


PostPosted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 2:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

another solution is this:
build a micro-circuit (dead bug soldering) with a LDO micro-power regulator ... for example: TC1014-2.7VCT713 and 1206 or 0805 passive components and put it inside (between the 2 batteries and where the wires of batteries go) the gossen lunasix

but it is very small (you can do it with a soldier 0.1mm or 0.3mm)

and for diode...the drop voltage of a diode is not the same for any kind of current

the current that flows into the gossen is variable (between 20uA and 290uA and more uA)
it does not exist a diode that with a current below 1mA it can produce a drop voltage of 0.4V (so 20uA -> drop voltage of 0.4V, so 50uA -> drop voltage of 0.4V, so 150uA -> drop voltage of 0.4V, so 300uA -> drop voltage of 0.4V)
a diode is not a linear component

another solution?
yes...build yourself a LDO micro-power-regulator with standard dimensions component

http://circuits-projects.blogspot.it/2012/08/ldo-regulator.html