On Sunday 27 April 2003 13:14, Olin Lathrop wrote:
> If you are this sensitive to the regulator overhead, either use a low
> dropout regulator or create your own.  It won't be very hard to make a
> basic regulator that can do 1A at less then 2V drop with cheap parts.  =
2V
> is actually quite a bit to work with at 1A.  Just don't expect the same
> transient response, at least without a lot of careful analisys and
> tweaking, but it sounds like you don't need that anyway.


Exactly the plan at this point.  Inevstigating a 1.3V dropout unit that I=
 just=20
found on NatSemi's site.  THis will save me from rebuilding the whole ckt=
=20
(which has the 5V, 3.3V, etc sections on it).  The LDO will be a simple=20
3-pin-part swap.

Cheers,
-Neil.

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