> I wanted to be sure that I can use 3 diodes to drop the voltage from a
5v
> rail down to around 3v to drive an EPROM requiring 1.8v - 3.6.  I was
using
> an LM317T but seems a little overboard as the EPROM uses very little
power.
>
> It 'seems' to work ok, just wandered if there were any pitfalls and if I
> should use a particular sized resistor to provide a load to get the
diodes
> to do their thing and perhaps a capacitor to smooth things out a little.

It seems you have a handle on this.  Three of the cheapest jellybean
diodes you can find with 500uA thru them and a 100nF cap should be fine.


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