Dual voltage (3.3 and 5) voltage regulator for Solderless breadboards

parts-man73

Here's something I've designed that would be very handy for prototyping Propeller projects on a solderless breadboard.

Since the Propeller requires 3.3 VDC and some other devices are only available as a 5 volt part. I decided to design a plug in regulator module for solderless breadboards that supplies both. It plugs into the breadboard for simple set up.

Great for the Propeller Education kit!

See it here - ucontroller.com/indexmisc.html

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Brian

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Frobozz

Nice. I've seen a couple of these online but yours is the first to handle both 3.3 and 5.0 volts at the same time.

Coley

Great Idea Brian!

parts-man73

@ Coley & Frobozz - Thank you for the positive feedback - it's something I've seen a need for, with the Propeller especially, but there are other 3.3V microcontrollers out there as well.

wastehl said...
Can you advise the power output of this board, I could not find it in the documentation...

Thanks, bill

The total maximum current between both 5 volt and 3.3 volt channels is 1 amp. But that assumes a reasonable voltage drop (7-9 VDC input is preferred) and the addition of proper heatsinks. The 3.3 volt channel has a 500 mA max. The 5 volt regulator feeds the 3.3 regulator, thus the 1 amp "total" limit.

Should be adequate for most hobbyists.

*** edit - these figures will be added to the documentation sometime today.

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Brian

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parts-man73

The documentation has been updated with schematic and specifications.

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Brian

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mosquito56

Bri, I would recommend moving it from misc parts to the main page. Since Misc only has 1 item. I missed it there and now get to pay double S+H but not complaining. Great service.

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parts-man73

A good suggestion, I would like people to see them. You can't sell something that no one knows you have.

I really wanted to separate into catagories.

• Spinstudio boards
• Misc things (only 1 now as you pointed out, but eventually I want to add things like connectors, loose ICs and maybe PropPlugs and extra Propellers)
• A new catagory will spring up soon, as I designed a product similar to SpinStudio for PICs, that can use some of the SpinStudio Modules

perhaps I need to redesign the website to better showcase my wares

Thank you for the suggestion!

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Brian

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mosquito56

·When your inventory goes over about 50 items(hopefully soon) then you will have to split them up. With only 10 items or so, I could look at everything in about 2 min. The first time I visited your site I checked the misc and thought "I can do this myself why bother" and turned off the misc page in my brain. Reading hundreds of pages a day that info took as "Useless" and I just ignored it.

· Make sure to put a banner any time you add something as well as the forum. That's how I found the power supply when I was reading someone elses new post about it.

Have a proping day!!

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Hmm, "What do you mean, it doesn't have any tubes?"

······· "No such thing as a dumb question" unless it's on the internet
········"What happens in Vegas ends up on the Internet"

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