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Re: Motion Sensors



> Most regulators require a 3 volt gap between required and supply voltage.
> Also 10 volts is not an off the shelf voltage. The solution would be to
> build your own using something like a 15 volt power supply and then an
> adjustable regulator to bring it down to ten.
>
> Of course a 12 volt supply with three diodes in series would do the same
> job. A diode drops .6 volt so 3X.8 = 1.8    12 - 1.8 = 10.2 Close enough?
>
> This is the KISS principle in action. (Keep it simple stupid)
>
> I rewired my node 0 (well, James H did actually, I was moral support)
> because of that same problem with lack of power sockets.

Thanks Ian, I'll give it ago.


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