Re: Two more silly II questions...

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On Aug 23, 4:29 am, glen herrmannsfeldt <g...@ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:

> Power inverters are pretty reasonably priced these days.

Sure, but the reason I want to do this is because I have more IIcs
than power bricks, and I have a _LOAD_ of 5A, 12~18VDC power supplies
(they are switchers, internally adjustable - they originally came with
LCD monitors).

> Otherwise, you could try to run an analog regulator off the
> 12V input to generate 5V.  Most linear regulators want a 2V

I don't really want to design a replacement for the internal power
supply, but if I did, I wouldn't use a linear regulator - the IIc
seems to want about 750mA (maybe more) on 5V, and that's over 5W being
dissipated in the linear regulator right there.

I'm really just wondering if there's a published standard method of
doing this.