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EEVblog #102 - DIY Constant Current Dummy Load for Power Supply and Battery Testing

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Dave Jones builds a constant current dummy load from an op-amp, MOSFET and shunt resistor for testing supplies and batteries; a common starting design for DIY loads.

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The circuit I’m working on is based on EEVBlog's dummy load.

user1022934 on electronics.stackexchange.com, Nov 2016. CC BY-SA.

Here is the EEVblog #102 - DIY Constant Current Dummy Load for Power Supply and Battery Testing.

abdullah kahraman on electronics.stackexchange.com, Dec 2011. CC BY-SA.

I built pretty much the simplest dummy load for testing batteries I found on youtube (EEVBlog #102) , but I modified it little bit.

Jakub on electronics.stackexchange.com, Jul 2018. CC BY-SA.

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