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In this video author is comparing in practice a buck converter with LM7805 linear voltage regulator. Here is the showdown buck converter vs linear voltage regulator.
In the video:
- Why & when you should use Buck converters?
- Advantages of linear voltage regulators
- Disadvantages of linear voltage regulators
- How to use linear voltage regulator?
- Where is buck converter used?
- Availability of Buck converters.
- Nomenclature with voltage regulators,
- How to use buck converters?
- Comparison of their usage,
- Testing both under loads for long time,
- Drawbacks of buck converters
What you learn from the comparison:
- Linear voltage regulator (78xx) use a lot more voltage compared to buck converter.
- Linear voltage converter heats up a lot to dissipate extra current,
- It switches off after heating up, and switches back on again.
- It consumes a lot more power compared to buck converter,
- Buck converter can provide variable output (by varying the potentiometer), whereas, a linear voltage regulator is stuck at only 1 output.
There are 2 mistakes in the video:
- 5:02 – 5:08 – correct calculations should be: (12V – 5V) x 0.42A = 2.94W
- 5:17 – 5:23 – correct calculations should be: (12V – 5V) x 0.22A = 1.54W
Hi, buck converters are really cool, but they generate such amount of noise , my last project include 4 pots conected to 4 ADC ports and they could’t get stable , values are always floating 10 to 15% of real value. The only solution was power te circuit with an 7805 3Amps in TO3 case with an huge heatsink, stabilizating at 50ºC . My question is : isn’t there an efecience way to eliminate this noise ? Thank you
Rui Barroso there are many ways
1) Using a low ESR capacitor or connect parallel capacitances instead of one big one at the output ( tantalum caps have low ESR )
2) Linear regulators have better regulation and noise performance but aren’t efficient when then there is a lot of difference between vin and vout, so you have to use a combination of buck and linear regulator ( low dropout regulator :LDO).
3) check the range of current drawn from the supply and choose an LDO whose output is fairly constant over that range like less than 1%
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Good information for newcomers.
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