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Old 04-30-2025, 08:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Kevin Kuehn View Post
Can you predict how much headroom they would design in, for example 500ma, or would they run much closer to the limit?
There should be a knee at just over 1 amp. So the voltage should stay at 5.0 volts up to the knee. I would suggest 0.6v is a good maximum where the roll off begins. In normal operation, it should be running with no more than 0.4 v or so across the resistor

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