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A stabilised power supply is one that is designed to produce a constant output voltage in spite of a change in the input voltage(a.c.), a change in the load current or a change in ambient temperature. A very simple Zener-diode stabilising circuit was described in Electronics II (section 1.5). This chapter starts with this simple circuit, and proceeds to introduce the feedback stabilising circuit which monitors the output voltage or current and feeds this back to a control transistor or IC to raise or lower the voltage or current level.
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© 1979 G. D. Bishop
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Bishop, G.D. (1979). Stabilised Power Supplies. In: Electronics III. Macmillan Technician Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03548-9_8
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