[Lab] arduino power adapter rating

Jean-Marc LeBlanc jeanmarc.leblanc at gmail.com
Thu Jul 21 17:03:37 EDT 2011


sorry that is if its running at 1.8V  but it would be very small still

Jean-Marc Le Blanc
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On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Jean-Marc LeBlanc
<jeanmarc.leblanc at gmail.com> wrote:
> should be good your arduino.  the ATMega 168 I takes less than 5 ma.
> So the power supply will be mostly for powering every thing else you
> will have hooked up to it.
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> Jean-Marc Le Blanc
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> "Do you pine for the nice days of Minix-1.1, when men were men and
> wrote their own device drivers?" Linus Torvalds
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> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Darcy Whyte <darcy at siteware.com> wrote:
>>
>> I don't think it matters.
>> There's no such thing as too much amperage. Your arduino will only draw what
>> it needs.
>> I'm sure you'll be fine with that one for a while.
>> What are you planning on running from the arduino?
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:43 PM, mike sorensen <mikeysorensen at hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Just got the arduino duemilanove. What are people using for a power
>>> adapter? I picked an adapter that runs at 9V since the manual suggest
>>> anywhere from 7-12V. It doesn't mention anything about amperage. I tried
>>> searching google and get anything from 40 mA to 1 amp. My adapter is rated
>>> 500mA. Does this sound reasonable? Too much? not enough?
>>>
>>> mike
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