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I built a driver to drive an LPC-815 diode recently, the only catch was that my power supply on hand pumps out 15V.
To work around this, I just make a voltage regulator out of an LM338, and then a current source style driver to provide the nessasary current to the diode.
Here is the concept of it, I just thought to share this one for those trying to find ideas on how to drive diodes from higher voltage supplies. it works fairly well IMO, but needs to be adjusted to w/e your diode/supply is.
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To work around this, I just make a voltage regulator out of an LM338, and then a current source style driver to provide the nessasary current to the diode.
Here is the concept of it, I just thought to share this one for those trying to find ideas on how to drive diodes from higher voltage supplies. it works fairly well IMO, but needs to be adjusted to w/e your diode/supply is.
:beer:
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