Understanding Power Supply- Linear and Switch Mode Power Supply
Understanding Power Supply- Linear and Switch Mode Power Supply In need for power supply in your upcoming project? Confused between Linear and Switch Mode Power supply? or just want to understand how they work? Let’s try to find some answers. Contents of this post: Introduction Choosing Right Supply for your Project Design PART 1: Introduction It’s a long post so get comfy, bring your favorite beverage, take a deep breath and now lets start! Let us try and understand what each of them really is and how do they differ. Certainly, if you are reading this you are a newbie so we will not go much in the complicated working (for now) of each and every component but we will try to just keep it simple and create just an intuitive understanding of each device. Fig. 1 : RL Circuit Consider you’re getting a 12V from a battery and you need to power your Arduino which needs 9V. So you need to drop your voltage by 12v-9v= 3v you then recall the Ohms Law ( V=IR ) an