{"id":120,"date":"2011-11-28T04:53:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T04:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/?p=120"},"modified":"2020-05-28T20:42:27","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T20:42:27","slug":"voltage-regulator-tutorial-and-usb-charger-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/2011\/11\/28\/voltage-regulator-tutorial-and-usb-charger-circuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Voltage regulator tutorial and USB gadget charger circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This video covers the basics of linear voltage regulators &#8211; what they do, how to wire them up, and where to find them. Then I give a basic example of how to build a 5V supply that can be used to power USB powered gadgets. This video builds upon material covered in the <a href=\"http:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/2011\/11\/28\/electrical-transformer-tutorial\/\">transformer<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/2011\/11\/28\/diode-tutorial-and-ac-to-dc-conversion\/\">diode<\/a> tutorials. If you watch them sequentially, you&#8217;ll learn how to safely get from mains voltages to a regulated DC voltage supply for your projects.<\/p>\n<style>.embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; }<\/style>\n<div class=\"embed-container\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GSzVs7_aW-Y\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video covers the basics of linear voltage regulators &#8211; what they do, how to wire them up, and where to find them. Then I give a basic example of how to build a 5V supply that can be used to power USB powered gadgets. This video builds upon material covered in the transformer and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[27,25],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beginner-tutorials","tag-power-electronics","tag-voltage-regulation"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/voltage-regulator-332x187.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1357,"href":"http:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/1357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/afrotechmods.com\/tutorials\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}