Monday, March 14, 2011

Voltage Dividers

In a house where there are multiple loads in a circuit, there is going to be some kind of variation in the voltage source. We are going to create a circuit that will help us understand what our voltage source should be. With the given values for the resistance loads and voltage bus max and min, we can calculate what our voltage source and our bus resistance should be.

V_source= 5.54 volts, R_s=55.56 ohms
Voltage bus max = 5.25 volts, Voltage bus min = 4.75 volts. (A 5 percent variation about 5 volts).

This is what our circuit was like when all resistance loads where connected to each other.


Calculated:
Voltage bus min= 5.18 volts, Voltage bus max= 5.72 volts

Because our Voltage source could not have been set to 5.54 volts, we were strictly forced to make it 6 volts. This new voltage changed our voltage variation by 9.91 percent.

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