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Sunday, July 16, 2017

Considerations about the Hiland Adjustable DC Regulated Power Supply Kit‎

My "lab" power supply was a homemade one I made/upgrade some years ago. It was constructed around a LM350K TO-3 regulator and worked very well. But I really missed one function: adjustable current limit.

The LM350K regulator has a fixed current limit around 2-3 amps, but usually that is just too much current for a prototype. Many times, when something went wrong, one or more components went burnt.