Timeline for Maximum current input of an LM2596 step down converter
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| Jan 19, 2019 at 2:35 | comment | added | TimWescott | You're suffering from a common misunderstanding. Voltage sources are rated for the voltage they do give, and the current they can give. If you don't connect anything up to a voltage source, it will deliver no current. Each load will take as much current as it takes for that voltage -- but that's a property of the load, not the source. | |
| Jan 19, 2019 at 2:25 | answer | added | Jasen Слава Україні | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 19, 2019 at 1:06 | comment | added | Hearth | Wait, if your question is "can I use this adapter" then the answer is yes. The 8A marked on the adapter is the maximum current, not a constant current it forces through things. | |
| Jan 19, 2019 at 1:03 | comment | added | Hallia | Ok thanks. I will get another adapter with less current then | |
| Jan 19, 2019 at 1:01 | comment | added | Hearth | If there's 8A going in, that means there must be more than 8A coming out (or else something's gone wrong with the converter). Since this is only rated for 2A output, 8A input would be a fault condition. | |
| Jan 19, 2019 at 0:55 | comment | added | Hallia | So what if I try with an 8A input? It will die ? | |
| Jan 19, 2019 at 0:53 | comment | added | Hearth | It's a step-down converter. That means the input current is less than or equal to the output current. | |
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| Jan 19, 2019 at 0:44 | history | asked | Hallia | CC BY-SA 4.0 |