Author Topic: Voltage supply circuit with current sinking capability  (Read 1871 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline DanioIOTopic starter

  • Contributor
  • Posts: 35
Voltage supply circuit with current sinking capability
« on: December 02, 2014, 06:49:05 am »
Hi,
How can i make a LDO voltage power supply, which can also work as constant current sink if the connected device voltage exceeds the power supply output?
 

Offline void_error

  • Frequent Contributor
  • **
  • Posts: 673
  • Country: ro
  • I can transistor...
Re: Voltage supply circuit with current sinking capability
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2014, 01:44:12 pm »
If you provide more details (input voltage, output voltage, output current) I might be able to give you a solution.
Trust me, I'm NOT an engineer.
 

Offline DanioIOTopic starter

  • Contributor
  • Posts: 35
Re: Voltage supply circuit with current sinking capability
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2014, 04:20:36 pm »
I need something working from 30V and the output voltage should be min. 15V, output current isnt very important i will be happy with 1A.
 

Offline Zero999

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 19938
  • Country: gb
  • 0999
Re: Voltage supply circuit with current sinking capability
« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2014, 08:54:28 pm »
Then it's relatively simple. You need a voltage reference connected to a push-pull amplifier.
 

Offline macboy

  • Super Contributor
  • ***
  • Posts: 2288
  • Country: ca
Re: Voltage supply circuit with current sinking capability
« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2014, 09:04:15 pm »
More explicitly, look at using a power op-amp such as LM1875 (3875 for more power), amplifying a voltage reference like TL431. You don't need symmetric supplies for the op-amp, -5V is enough for the negative supply, our use single supply (neg supply is ground) if the output never needs to go below about 5V.
 


Share me

Digg  Facebook  SlashDot  Delicious  Technorati  Twitter  Google  Yahoo
Smf