so there is a lot of stuff happening on that tiny circuit so for a simplified explanation we're going to be moving to the white board now as you can see here i didn't attend art school and i'm okay with that but you'll have to put up with my crew drawing skills so before we get into this uh let's talk quickly about the pros and cons of the two most common types of power supplies you'll find they are linear regulated and switching regulated power supplies so the pros and cons of a switching regulated power supply high conversion efficiency should be in the NUMBER_TOKEN plus range and the drawback is you'll find a noisy output with the potential for lots of ripple as we saw when we hooked up the ryden power supply to my oscilloscope there was lots of ripple as the pros and cons of switching regulated so now moving on to linear regulated it's kind of the opposite it has in the wrong situation extremely poor conversion efficiency can waste lots of power as heat but the benefits are they typically put out very clean smooth power now mini wear have kind of come up with a hybrid system which is what we're going to explain so starting over here we've got our power source this might be a usb charger it might be a power adapter whatever it doesn't matter so we get our power from our power source and it goes to the input side of our mini wear power supply now let's say on the output i want NUMBER_TOKEN volts so i program the mini ware power supply to output NUMBER_TOKEN volts exactly so the first stage we have the power gum from our input and it goes to the switching regulated side of the mini wear power supply now what the circuit does is it takes the input power and it looks at our programmed voltage and it converts the power to our program voltage plus half a volt or thereabouts so the switching regulator would output NUMBER_TOKEN volts half a volt higher than our program voltage so the switching regulator does the bulk of the voltage conversion and it then sends the power out to the linear regulated side of the circuit and the linear regulated side takes off that extra half a volt and we drop it down to our program voltage which is NUMBER_TOKEN volts and sends it to the output ready for use now what makes this system so good is the switching regulator gives us the benefit of high conversion efficiency and then the linear regulated side of the circuit cleans up the noisy output from the switching regulator and sends out nice smooth power ready to be used it's absolute genius why hasn't someone done this before well it's probably not groundbreaking but i've never seen this before it's absolutely brilliant so really mini wear have found a way to combine the best of both types of power supplies and combine it into one so that you really get the best of both worlds without compromising too much so well done moneywear this is a fantastically designed product with their usual top-notch build quality so i think that draws us to the end of this video if you want to buy one of these then it'd be great if you could use one of my affiliate links as it helps support the content on my channel and you'll be seeing more videos just like this one also don't forget to smash that like button and hit subscribe if you want to see more videos like this thanks to my patreon supporters and i'll see you in the next video bye for now
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