You are one of a kind when it comes to these instructions videos! Great works, and really you pinpoint the schematics well 💪

Choosing right capacitor was very complicated to me.. now you just taught me everything important.. Thank you DiodeGoneWild.. 👍👍

You have hit a strong method. You’re going from passive to active teaching. Like the difference between lecture and lab work. Bravo. You have a winner for your deep skill level.

Thank you for the capacitor lesson and where when and why different capacitors are better for different purpose

If i get a teacher like you in my Childhood when i had lot of Questions ! Now i get the answers . Thanks

I love your videos, I always learn a lot from them!!

Outstanding video!!!!! Thank you sir.

Always a pleasure to to watch your videos

Enterntaining and informative videos, keep up the good work!

I learn so much from your KZfaqs. Thank you for the time you take to share your knowledge and experience.

This was a fantastic instructional video. I have a couple of questions about putting together a filter board to clean up ripple from my cheap 30v 10A bench power supply but I’ll ask them over on Patreon.

Good job man! And thanks to the person how donate you that ESR meter!

As always from that Czech guy a awesome educating end entertaining video - 1000 Tnx !

I specially like the latest videos, with lots of new teaching and good info !

Very nicely explained and pin pointed at every important thing.

Really good video as always and right on time! I've been trying to repair a psu with a fet as a switching regulator and seems the capacitors around it are not rated for the task, it makes a clicking noise and no voltage at the output. Thanks a lot!

Excellent video DGW! I pick up beautiful dead flat screen tv's here or there or when I install new ones for friends...... most of the time it is bad capacitors, the pain in my ass is finding replacement capacitors....... they have to be low esr, if you read the forums you have noticed people saying they opened their tv's and found the bad caps, gotten excited and ordered new ones only to be told they are not low esr....... My request is for you to make a video on data sheets so we can order the right capacitors. Love your Channel

Extremely clear explanations and follow through.

I've been waiting for an another video. Ah. Thanks.

Great video, thanks DiodeGoneWild

Thanks for your films :). You can also check ESR using special tester, which can check transistors, diodes, mosfet etc.

Discharge capacitors before you hook them to your fancy ESR meter. Some really fancy meters do it for you. Yours might not be quite that fancy though.

Amazing informative video.thanks man

superb....very informative video

Fantastic video!

In case of series-parallel combination of inductors, for applying the same formula as that of resistors, you must have to make sure that the inductors are not magnetically coupled to each other in anyways. Otherwise, formula might give unexpected results. For example, in case of two oppositely coupled(coupling coefficient=1) inductors having same inductances(say L), the net inductance in their parallel combination would be zero, instead of L/2(according to the parallel formula).

Excellent and very entertaining.

Great material - practical and to the point :-)

Cat says so complicated mathematics here every this is goes out of my mind

Awesome follow up! This format is just a superb teaching tool. Probably takes forever to make but these are my favourite style. What kind of cat do you have?

Useful video 👍

super intresting video!

Well presented lesson. I mess around with HF RF circuits. Different animal yes, but much still applies. Thanx.

Great job!

Great video like always! Can we hope you will do a SMPS (computer PS) modification to adjustable output some time?

CatGoneWild ;) Awesome videos, thanks a lot!

Really good video, thank you!

Great video.

Love your ideas and repairs very good explanation your voice sound like sonata

Could you perhaps do a separate video about your 555 timer-based DIY ESR indicator? Looks like an interesting construction.

Mil gracias por compartirlo...un saludo desde Chiapas Mexico...soy fiel seguidor de su hermoso trabajo..

I love how you took your time to "make it better" , could be a new series for you... Do you think the original manufacture failed to do so due to cost or lack of understanding of the way it worked. It doesn't seem like cost would be much of a factor to make it better

That's a really good macro shot where you're holding the resistor and pointing at it with a pen? The focus is really crisp!

Hi, do you Have a video on how to desing the transformer used for SMPS?, thanks for all your content, I Have learned a lot thanks to you

Thanks again for yet another very interesting video! It’s shows that with only a few components this simple charger can go from horrible to reasonable. Could you perhaps also give an indication of how much this would add to the production costs? It’s a pity how lowest price competition drives the manufacturers of these products to skim on really every component where the can.

nice job!

This is fun to learn and I managed to blow at most 2 capacitors once one was in a small radio and one was in a pair of wireless headphones transmitter

Great vid as always. Greetings from sri lanka.

Love this video! Learnt a lot!

Verry good electronic basics video. And I realy like your accent. Greetings from eastern Germany

You are great sir....

Super explication. Merci

100kHz is at the maximum operation frequency of the device. They tend to work better at about half that, need to recalculate the inductor and check that they even used an appropriate value in the first place; I've seen a few similar supplies that haven't.

So what is your final charger maximum load parameters at 12V DC and 24V DC? Thanks for your video - it is very useful.

Very helpful for me thank you so much

Really nice!

greetings. very well explained. success.

12:18 Diode gone wild likes cars

Can't you add a transistor at the output of the chip and decrease the resistance of the current sensing resistor to increase the current capability?

Thank you for sharing your knowledge

Very good

I love your accent. All of Your videos are great and helpful . thanks😀( sry for bad english)

Hello if you want to low ESR you can take two capacitors in parallel and take ceramic in parallel, cuz electrolytic doesn’t work on high frequency

Jo diodegonewild can you make something about diy shop tools and the dangers of that?

thx for your help to understand these circuits ... can you help me to increase output current as the circuit heatsup very quickly when smartphones connected...i tried to convert dual transistors circuit (13003,945) smps to operate over 12v but it only gives low amp. o/p

Very nice. That ESR meter measure the impedance of the capacitor at 100KHz. I think it will be better to use 2 frequencies, 100KHz and 50Hz to measure the capacitor impedance.

Can i replace 2 ....5 rings resistor on the power supply primary side for 4 ring resistor near the pfc input on primary side..???

That's why i have added small ceramic capacitor in parralel to a bigger electrolytic capacitor in my LC filter circuit for a MOSFET driver, apparently that makes sense. But i'm not sure if the higher ESR of cheap electolytic capacitors affects that much on lower frequencies. My circuit uses 13.33kHz PWM and without LC filter the MOSFET driver affects a lot on the microcontroller which makes the PWM signal. So do i need to add a ceramic capacitor on frequencies as low as 10-20kHz ?

My friend...! Been waiting for you making a modification for atx power supply using SG6105D IC to 14 volts. I have it schematic here. Or Can you tell me where to change the components?

At the +5 volts output the buck regulator is connected through a single 1N5819 diode. Is that all that stand against a reverse voltage being fed back into the 12v regulator from the mains side?? what would happen if somehow you were able to plug it into both mains and the 12V supply? I'm guessing the voltage would stay at 5V but the amperage would increase.

You are a great teacher! Can you show how to connect a Power Mosfet at the output to increase current capability of the circuit? Thank you again so much for your great tutorial. Like Ted said "You are one of a kind"! RJM

Some one help me My phone getting some AC current while charging. How to fix this some one told me to removing capacitor between primary and secondary on board

I've used the schematic of you're DIY ESR meter to build one that allows to plug a DMM with uA scale by tuning R1 and R2 and works pretty nice. Not the best accuracy but it matches the reading of a 1uF cap on a LCR T4 meter :D .

Beautiful cat btw :D

How did that electrolytic cap didn't blow up if the meter charges it with AC? i thought that polarized caps would blow up

Excellent investigation. I still love your singing voice. Very informative videos. Thanks.

Can you modify Analog Multimeter upgrade to merge with ESR Meter + LSR Meter module? 👍🏻

We all make mistakes, the blue body multiband resistors often get confusing and hard to read because of the blue background and fading eyes. Using gold or silver for different things than tolerance trip me up. Thankfully there is always a multimeter near :-D. I've used the reciprocal resistor calc with minus instead of plus, for a reversal.

you know the neighborhood mice have gone together and paid your cat to get in your way doing these videos? I am just a 67 year old fart who is trying to tech himself electronics.. your site is way over my head but there is something in the way you teach it that I can follow along and understand what you are saying and learn some very good things along the way.. thanks for all of your video shares.. carry on I look forward to your next one..

12:24 I am watching your channel for almost 1 year. Because of your accent sometimes i doesn't understand your words(but still its good). for all these days what you are saying was 'dodgy' which i hear as dochy. 😂😂😆

He likes to articulate after finishing a sentences by slowly toning down ...Which is great

That circuit picture is a masterpiece, is that a Picasso ?-)

Use the old A/C input to plug in a 14V solar panel for your dashboard.

Nice, I'd like 2 cookie noms

I love you and your vedios

Bonita calculadora retro !

How to work Sine weve inverter Please make video

Nice job! btw am I the only one who gets reminded of the PPAP? lol

A navíc pěkná britská kočička 🙂!

It will be a big loss if not to watch any one of your videos. Thank you so much for such in depth explanation about types of capacitors and their applications in different areas. Impressive!!

There is also a great video explaining just the reason why to connect multiple capacitors in parallel instead of one big capacitance capacitor: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rd1xga6omJyxmqs.html

Gotta love the cat

Great

You so smart :)

hehe i rly like ur English accent and your cat ^^ so cute

Crt TV oscilloscope video!!

Ha! That questionable cover is right up BigClives alley! 😂

Why not measure the ESR only at the switching frequency.

Great video. Never trust cheap Chinese electrolytics, i recently bought 1000uF 35V low esr "Sanyo" caps, and looking at the datasheet, these should be much larger than ones i received. They are 1000uF 35V but the esr and "Sanyo" is rubbish. As for the obsolete chip, there are cheap buck and boost regulators for cheap, but they as well come with too low capacitors that are rubbish. I was running a 12V to 5V LM2596S module at 1A and both input and output 330uF caps were too hot to touch after just a few minutes. So i totaly recommend those modules, but always switch the caps to a legit branded low esr capacitors, and also, look at the datasheet for the control chip. The LM2596S recommends 1000uF at the output for dropping to 5V and the modules come with rubbish 330uF, so no wonder they were getting hot and the chip was squealling the whole time.

03:10 . Put the cat in parallele. 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂