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How can this be done.
I have 5 volts coming out of an enclosure and entering another enclosure through a patch cable. The voltage needs to be current limited so that a user does not inadvertently short the supply as the patch cable and the various devices that can attach to it are designed to be plug and play and so it is quite possible that a user might plug something unexpected in, or do something to short the supply.
At times the 5v is simply across a potentiometer, with the wiper feeding back to the other enclosure, and for that application the limiting resistor is not a problem. However, the five volts is sometimes used to power an op-amp and uC circuit (about 40mA total) that doesn't like working through the series resistor.
What actually happens is that the output of the op-amp circuit , which is configured with some gain and a 2.5v swing around zero, starts to pulsate. The uC circuit seems to work ok, though I guess it is unstable.
What about a charge pump, would that make any difference, or what else can be done.
I have 5 volts coming out of an enclosure and entering another enclosure through a patch cable. The voltage needs to be current limited so that a user does not inadvertently short the supply as the patch cable and the various devices that can attach to it are designed to be plug and play and so it is quite possible that a user might plug something unexpected in, or do something to short the supply.
At times the 5v is simply across a potentiometer, with the wiper feeding back to the other enclosure, and for that application the limiting resistor is not a problem. However, the five volts is sometimes used to power an op-amp and uC circuit (about 40mA total) that doesn't like working through the series resistor.
What actually happens is that the output of the op-amp circuit , which is configured with some gain and a 2.5v swing around zero, starts to pulsate. The uC circuit seems to work ok, though I guess it is unstable.
What about a charge pump, would that make any difference, or what else can be done.