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Re: LED Strip Power
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Originally Posted by wmarshall11 View Post
Would throwing a couple of 5v regulators in parallel work for your application?
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Putting regulators in parallel is never a good idea unless you put enough resistance between each of the outputs to allow the variation in output voltage to go somewhere other than frying electronics.
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