[NSRCA-discussion] regulators

[jivey61 at bellsouth.net]

Robt
 Your battery is 480 mah and you are trying to make it produce
500mah,1000mah,and 1500mah. The battery does not have the capacity to
produce these currants.The regulator is ok.

Jim Ivey
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Mairs" <robertm at sssnet.com>
To: "NSRCA Mailing List" <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 7:53 AM
Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] regulators


> I've got a Jaico that regulates to 6.11 volts.   Using a 480 mah TP lipo,
> and the Jaico, I got the following.
>
> no load, 6.11v
> 500mah load, 5.72v
> 1A load, 5.63v
> 1.5A load, 5.54v
>
> Just with the battery, no regulator I get
>
> no load, 8.2v
> 500mah, 7.84v
> 1A, 7.51v
> 1.5A, 7.2v
>
> I don't understand.  Why doesn't the regulated voltage stay at 6.11v with
a
> load?  I always thought using a regulator was supposed to give you a
> constant voltage so the servos reaction would always be the same, yet it
> acts just like a battery,  just not as great a drop off it seems.
>
>
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