on video This must have in your Lab|LM 317 voltage regulator

Continuing on from our tutorial about converting an ATX PSU to a bench power supply, one very good addition to this is the LM317T positive voltage regulator which we can use to create a variable voltage power supply.

The LM317T is an adjustable 3-terminal positive voltage regulator capable of supplying different DC voltage outputs other than the fixed voltage power supply of +5 or +12 volts, or as a variable output voltage from a few volts up to some maximum value all with currents of about 1.5 amperes.

With the aid of a small bit of additional circuitry added to the output of the PSU we can have a bench power supply capable of a range of fixed or variable voltages either positive or negative in nature. In fact this is more simple than you may think as the transformer, rectification and smoothing has already been done by the PSU beforehand all we need to do is connect our additional circuit to the +12 volt yellow wire output. But firstly, lets consider a fixed voltage output.

Fixed 9v Power Supply

There are a wide variety of 3-terminal voltage regulators available in a standard TO-220 package with the most popular fixed voltage regulator being the 78xx series positive regulators which range from the very common 7805, +5V fixed voltage regulator to the 7824, + 24V fixed voltage regulator. There is also a 79xx series of fixed negative voltage regulators which produce a complementary negative voltage from -5 to -24 volts but in this tutorial we will only use the positive 78xx types.

 

Continuing on from our tutorial about converting an ATX PSU to a bench power supply, one very good addition to this is the LM317T positive voltage regulator which we can use to create a variable voltage power supply.

The LM317T is an adjustable 3-terminal positive voltage regulator capable of supplying different DC voltage outputs other than the fixed voltage power supply of +5 or +12 volts, or as a variable output voltage from a few volts up to some maximum value all with currents of about 1.5 amperes.

With the aid of a small bit of additional circuitry added to the output of the PSU we can have a bench power supply capable of a range of fixed or variable voltages either positive or negative in nature. In fact this is more simple than you may think as the transformer, rectification and smoothing has already been done by the PSU beforehand all we need to do is connect our additional circuit to the +12 volt yellow wire output. But firstly, lets consider a fixed voltage output.

Fixed 9v Power Supply

There are a wide variety of 3-terminal voltage regulators available in a standard TO-220 package with the most popular fixed voltage regulator being the 78xx series positive regulators which range from the very common 7805, +5V fixed voltage regulator to the 7824, + 24V fixed voltage regulator. There is also a 79xx series of fixed negative voltage regulators which produce a complementary negative voltage from -5 to -24 volts but in this tutorial we will only use the positive 78xx types.

 

Continuing on from our tutorial about converting an ATX PSU to a bench power supply, one very good addition to this is the LM317T positive voltage regulator which we can use to create a variable voltage power supply.

The LM317T is an adjustable 3-terminal positive voltage regulator capable of supplying different DC voltage outputs other than the fixed voltage power supply of +5 or +12 volts, or as a variable output voltage from a few volts up to some maximum value all with currents of about 1.5 amperes.

With the aid of a small bit of additional circuitry added to the output of the PSU we can have a bench power supply capable of a range of fixed or variable voltages either positive or negative in nature. In fact this is more simple than you may think as the transformer, rectification and smoothing has already been done by the PSU beforehand all we need to do is connect our additional circuit to the +12 volt yellow wire output. But firstly, lets consider a fixed voltage output.

Fixed 9v Power Supply

There are a wide variety of 3-terminal voltage regulators available in a standard TO-220 package with the most popular fixed voltage regulator being the 78xx series positive regulators which range from the very common 7805, +5V fixed voltage regulator to the 7824, + 24V fixed voltage regulator. There is also a 79xx series of fixed negative voltage regulators which produce a complementary negative voltage from -5 to -24 volts but in this tutorial we will only use the positive 78xx types.

 

Continuing on from our tutorial about converting an ATX PSU to a bench power supply, one very good addition to this is the LM317T positive voltage regulator which we can use to create a variable voltage power supply.

The LM317T is an adjustable 3-terminal positive voltage regulator capable of supplying different DC voltage outputs other than the fixed voltage power supply of +5 or +12 volts, or as a variable output voltage from a few volts up to some maximum value all with currents of about 1.5 amperes.

With the aid of a small bit of additional circuitry added to the output of the PSU we can have a bench power supply capable of a range of fixed or variable voltages either positive or negative in nature. In fact this is more simple than you may think as the transformer, rectification and smoothing has already been done by the PSU beforehand all we need to do is connect our additional circuit to the +12 volt yellow wire output. But firstly, lets consider a fixed voltage output.

Fixed 9v Power Supply

There are a wide variety of 3-terminal voltage regulators available in a standard TO-220 package with the most popular fixed voltage regulator being the 78xx series positive regulators which range from the very common 7805, +5V fixed voltage regulator to the 7824, + 24V fixed voltage regulator. There is also a 79xx series of fixed negative voltage regulators which produce a complementary negative voltage from -5 to -24 volts but in this tutorial we will only use the positive 78xx types.