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Due to federal and state budget cuts, school boards are being forced to make tough decisions about which extracurricular activities will receive the greater portion of even smaller slices of the budgetary pie.
And it's unfortunate for school leaders to be put in the position of forcing the programs to seek alternate forms of funding.
Most of us could all agree that economic development is important to our community.
Since Fruit of the Loom and Batesville Casket Co. abandoned our town a decade ago, we were left with picking up the pieces of what was left.
But we picked up those pieces and have actually been able to diversify our local businesses, with the addition of Amazon.com and others.
Each year in June, the Central Kentucky News-Journal honors Taylor County men with a special section. The newspaper also asks for help from the community in choosing one man, in particular, who excels in his family, career, community and church.
Residents send in their nominations for Taylor County Man of the Year and then a committee of News-Journal staff members chooses a winner based on those nominations.
This year's honoree is Ben Martin.
The decision was a difficult one for the judges. There were more than 10 different men nominated.
Tim Davis has coached the Kentucky All Stars to a split - and nearly a sweep - in their annual basketball all-star series vs. Indiana.
Kentucky was in a tailspin, having lost eight straight and 18 of the last 20 before Davis guided them to a 95-78 blow-out win in Louisville on Sunday after dropping an 83-82 decision in Indianapolis the previous Friday.
Summertime. The word alone conjures up visions of ice cream, fishing, swimming, picnics ... and county fairs.
Kentucky is famous for its county fairs. And now that it's back in full swing, the Taylor County Fair continues to get bigger and better.
This past Saturday marked the first events for this year's fair - the annual Taylor County Youth Horse Show and Tommie Johns Memorial Championship Horse Show. Tomorrow, fairgoers will start with dairy and goat shows, and Saturday features a beef show and - new this year - a corn hole tournament.
Back to the Future. That's not just a movie title anymore. Now, apparently, it's going to be our voting system.
As a story on last Thursday's front page explains, the County has approved the use of paper ballots for the November General Election. Federal money pays for voting machines, and counties can choose the system that works best for them.
Taylor Fiscal Court has approved the purchase of machines that will scan paper ballots - ballots a lot like those we used years ago.
What has turned out to be a really good day for kids has also turned out to be a really good marketing tool for Taylor County and Green River Lake.
Hundreds of kids (and with kids come parents) descended on Green River Lake on Saturday as the local chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation sponsored its 2008 Kids Outdoor Day.
It's almost an accomplishment of monumental proportions - coordinating activities on the waterfront, in the pavilion area at Green River Lake State Park and at Camp Kentahten. It was hot, but the kids didn't seem to mind.
This year's Relay for Life not only topped last year's fundraising total, organizers says it beat the group's goal by more than $6,000.
Combined with more than $50,000 from the St. Baldrick's cancer fundraiser in March, the total Campbellsville and Taylor County has raised for cancer research is awesome.
Cancer affects all of us in one way or another, whether it's through ourselves or a family member. It's up to all of us to support the effort to find a cure.
Cancer touches all of us, plain and simple. If only it was as simple to cure it.
As the second leading cause of death in the U.S., cancer will affect all too many of us. We each have a risk - experts say half of all men and a third of all women will be diagnosed with some form of the disease.
As scary as those numbers are, each year it seems as if cancer researchers have some good news for us.
Has anybody been thinking what we've been thinking, that they'd like to have the Mayor and the City Council's help balancing our budgets?
In a time when making ends meet seems like the struggle of a lifetime, the City approved a budget that, among other things, includes a 5 percent pay increase for all full-time employees.
Before someone accuses us of eating "sour grapes" let it be known that the CKNJ Editorial Board holds no animosity for our fine City workers. We believe a financially strong municipality sends a good message to its constituents.
At Monday's ceremony honoring Taylor County war dead and those who have served and are still serving, the Junior ROTC from North Hardin High School performed a "Prisoner of War/Missing in Action/Missing Man" ceremony.
No other editorial comment is necessary but to allow you to read the script as read that day:
I think we could all agree that economic development is important to our community.
Since Fruit of the Loom packed up its underwear and Batesville Casket Co. its caskets nearly a decade ago, developing the local economy has been one of our few salvations.
One would think that hasn't changed. Economic development should be job No. 1 on everyone's mind.
However, local governments can't seem to agree.
This week and next mark the official end of childhood for area high school seniors. They'll be considered "grownups" now.
Sure, they have the summer to look forward to ... sunny days at the lake, sleeping late, last flings with their friends, but, for many, the dog days of summer are the last of the carefree times.
Adulthood is now staring them in the face.
If one particular issue would split the opinion of voters in Campbellsville, we suspect alcohol might be it.
The lead-up to this year's primary was about as tame as it could possibly get. Even though we witnessed way more letters opposing alcohol than approving of it, we suspect that there were a number of people who never really let their feelings be known until they stepped behind the curtain on Tuesday and punched "yes" or "no" on the referendum question about the sale of alcoholic beverages in restaurants.
Tomorrow is Kentucky's Primary Election. And it's up to us to see that those who we believe will do the best job get the most votes.
Of course, without many local races, officials don't expect a large turnout. However, County Clerk Mark Carney said he believes we'll have a better turnout locally than the state as a whole.
Apathy certainly won't get us where we need to be.
Parents, brace yourselves. State budget cuts are already slicing deep, and it's going to take a lot more than a few stitches to repair the wounds.
This fall, your children will be affected.
Schools across Kentucky are being required to slash their budgets. And that means fewer teachers and educational programs for our students.
It takes a special kind of person to care for those who are sick or hurt. In addition to all the "learned knowledge," such as education and training, it also takes patience, kindness and genuine caring.
A majority of the health care professionals in our community are exactly that, and none of them more so than nurses and nurses' aides.
For all their expertise, doctors are often rushed to the point of checking on a patient, signing some orders and hurrying on to the next patient before heading to their offices.
Nurses and aides, however, remain with their patients.
Last year, the News-Journal published a story about the results of the latest Kentucky Incentives for Prevention survey of local students.
The survey results showed that prescription drug abuse is on the rise with teenagers. As a matter of fact, according to Karen Hayes with the Campbellsville/Taylor County Anti-Drug Coalition, one in every four teens uses prescription drugs to get high.
No wonder Kentucky leads the nation in prescription drug abuse.
We all knew it. But now others are learning as well. Taylor County is a wonderful place in which to live and raise a family.
A story on today's front page tells about a family - a large, extended family - who moved to Taylor County from Las Vegas, Nev. last year. They did so because they visited the area and liked it. A family, passing through, gets the feeling that this is the place for them to live. Sounds like a made-for-TV movie script.
They thought it would be a better place in which to raise their growing family than in the frantic, big-city atmosphere of Las Vegas.
"But just as you excel in everything - in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in complete earnestness and in your love for us[a] - see that you also excel in this grace of giving."
-2 Corinthians 8:7
There are many worthy causes in the community, but it would seem logical that the issue of children not having enough to eat should rank near the top of the list.
If the Taylor County Food Pantry is just four weeks away from halting service due to a lack of funding, then it's obvious families in the community are going hungry - and it's going to do nothing but get worse.


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Understanding the role of historic climate variability and trends that characterise the Hunter, Central and Lower North Coast is critical for industry, government and the community to understand and prepare for climate change.
The Tom Farrell Institute will host the Climate change in the Hunter - a community focus to provide a snapshot of their latest research into the potential impacts of climate change on the region's economy, community and environment, and to discuss planning and strategies.
The forum will feature Dr Karen Blackmore, a postdoctoral scientist from Newcastle Innovation; and Douglas Lord from the NSW Department of Environment and Climate Change.
The forum will be held on Friday 17 October from 2 - 4.30pm at the Harold Lobb Concert Hall, the Conservatorium of Music, cnr Auckland and Laman Streets, Newcastle. Entry is $10.

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Rated 5.0 out of 5.0 by ShahIY Interconti Tokyo Bay
I was initially apprehensive when I wanted to book the Interconti Tokyo Bay, because of the mixed reviews. I went ahead and booked this hotel because of two reasons - 1) the price, as it was not as expensive as the hotels in the Maronouchi area, and 2) the location, being next to the bay with adequate train links to take me where I wanted to go.
Contrary to other reviews, where there were comments of poor-English speaking staff, I did not get that experience at all. In fact, the front office team and the restaurant captain, spoke excellent English.
While my opinion of my first stay in this hotel could be influenced by the fact that I got a room upgrade with a fantastic view of Tokyo Bay, being a business traveller, two most important factors here worked for me - I had an excellent sleep, and the internet connection is free and fast.
One point though that could make the stay even better was the breakfast, or lack of choices (at least during the time I stayed). For a big hotel, the breakfast selection was surprisingly compact. The selections, although adequate for my needs, was not the extensive spread I expected of a big hotel - limited selection of fruit juices and drinks as one example. In any case, I was sufficiently nourished with the small but good Japanese food selection, but you would probably struggle to justify value-for-money on a small breakfast.
Overall, I would recommend this hotel. The staff was knowledgeable, room and the sleep were excellent, the internet worked, and the location good.
03 December 2013
Rated 5.0 out of 5.0 by john0707 Great location and service
This is my second stay.I stay 8 nights in this hotel.
The view is value of the money, the matrice is good for sleep. the hotel provide free shuttle from railway station to hotel save a lot of time.the room has classic decoration
The staff is helpful and polite .
the food is a little bit pricy .
26 November 2013
Rated 3.0 out of 5.0 by AzizJ Disappointment
Worst experience of an intercontinental hotel. the staff at this hotel spoke poor English. the room furniture was old. at checking out the hotel gave me different price than the original quote from the website. because of the poor English it took long time to reach an understanding of there mistake.
17 November 2013
Rated 2.0 out of 5.0 by Shambles Unless you are spending big bucks on Club level, probably choose another :(
I've now stayed 3 times at this hotel - I am Platinum Ambassador IHG member and have used many Intercons around the world, usually with an awesome experience. The previous two stays at Tokyo Bay i booked a Club room and having the personalised service of Club checkin/checkout and a nice cnr room upgrade made for a good experience. However, my last night there (Fri 18th Oct) the experience was not up to the usual Intercon standard. Lobby/checkin staff were pretty inflexible & not as friendly as other Japanese hotels (Japan customer service is typically some of the best in th eworld in my opinion). For some reason, my non-smoking room smelt pretty smokey and the free amenities I usually get were not provided. First world problems I know but this is honest feedback for frequent travelers like me who usually get extra service for our loyalty. I was hoping to bring my wife to Tokyo Bay area next year but dont have the budget for a club room - I'll probably book a different hotel but may return to this one if I have a the opportunity to fund a club room again.
08 November 2013
Rated 1.0 out of 5.0 No nos sentíamos en un Intercontinental
Me gustan mucho los hoteles intercontinental tanto para viajes de negocio como de placer pero el Tokyo Bay fue diferente.No tuvimos ningún recocimiento con mi tarjeta de IHG Platinum member.No hubo ni siquiera palabras de bienvenida, ni coctel de bienvenida, ni frutas, ninguna atención especial. La chica que nos atendió hablaba un inglés pésimo que no se le entendía , le pedimos poder hablar con otra persona pero no lo hizo. Sorprendentemente tampoco teníamos derecho a usar el club del hotel. La habitación tenía linda vista sobre la bahía pero su decoración era completamente recargada.
El desayuno es el peor que me ha tocado en todos los viajes que he hecho por muchos países. Las frutas que además eran muy pocas no eran frescas, no había queso de ninguna clase. No provocaba!
Es un hotel muy bien situado cerca de Hamamatsucho station y un buen servicio de shuttle bus. En cuanto al personal solamente el chofer y el botones de la entrada principal fueron muy amables, los demás muy desatentos.
06 November 2013
Rated 3.0 out of 5.0 by Christina3 Disappointing stay
Hotel is conveniently located by the monorail station. hotel is overpriced and probably needs a little make-over. the staff was cold and unfriendly.
03 November 2013
Rated 5.0 out of 5.0 by kimt Close walk to subway!
We stayed three nights at the Club level. The value in staying at the Club level is terrific. The included breakfast,nightly dinner and drinks are well worth the upgrade price. The room we had on the 22nd floor with the river view was marvelous! Suzuiki the host on the 20th floor was very helpful with every thing that we needed, from making the airport limo. reservation to showing us how on a map to take the subways. I would highly recommend this hotel. Very clean with comfy beds.
01 November 2013
Rated 2.0 out of 5.0 by Grahambowtie No Smoking Room
I recently stayed at this hotel - it is in a good location for my business work in Tokyo. The room was filled with smoke constantly even though this was an executive club room (NON SMOKING).
I arrived early at the hotel from Australia and my room was not avaialble. The room offered was not an upgrade normally extended to Ambasador members. The room was comfortable but filled with smoke which got worse to the point I had open the window and switched off the air conditioning.
The staff were helpful and freindly but did not really have much of a clue of how to improve the situation.
I have been an Ambassador member for quite a few years and have stayed at many hotels in your chain around the world. The experience in Tokyo has made me rethink should I renew my membership or go to one of your major competitors?
31 October 2013
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That's right. I have taken a number of guests into the Society and they have all imagined the members would be old, wealthy, white and male. And boring. They have been pleasantly surprised to find both men and women; young and old; people who look wealthy and people who don't. I'm not sure we've quite cracked the race issue yet, but that's something to work on.
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Father died just few months after his son, inquest told
Last updated at 12:23, Friday, 30 November 2012
A Whitehaven family have suffered a double tragedy as a father and son died within seven months.
An inquest was held yesterday into the death of Neil Musson, 48, who died at his home in a flat above the Wellington Pub, in Whitehaven's Market Place, on March 20. His son, Lee Groggins, was found hanged at the flat last September.
Coroner David Roberts recorded a verdict of misadventure on Mr Musson's death.
A post-mortem report stated he had high levels of fentanyl in his system, a prescribed painkiller, along with 'therapeutic' levels of diazepam. A toxicology report stated Mr Musson died of fentanyl intoxication.
GP Thomas Ickes, of the Catherine Street surgery, treated Mr Musson for chronic back pain and he was getting help from a drugs dependance worker.
Norma Musson said her son Neil stayed at the flat above the pub,following her grandson's death.
The inquest, held in Workington, heard that police were called to the flat on the morning of March 20 following reports of a sudden death. Mrs Musson identified her son who had died in the living room.
She said: "I knew he suffered from back problems and he was taking strong prescribed painkillers."
She said her son was distraught following the loss of his son Lee.
Mr Roberts said: "The cause of death is clear – fentanyl intoxication resulted in terminal aspiration."
First published at 12:22, Friday, 30 November 2012
Published by http://www.newsandstar.co.uk
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Can I connect two LM2940 in parallel ?
Using doubled capacitors.
Will this get to work ?
Thank you
Existing posts in the forum comment that connecting the output of two LDOs ( linear regulators ) in parallel is not typically recommended. Current sharing can not be guaranteed. One of the existing posts points to an application note on how to connect LDOs in parallel using ballast resistors to force current sharing. http://www.ti.com/lit/an/slva250/slva250.pdf In general, it's always best to use a single LDO rated for the required output current.
Many thanks for this PDF. I've made couple configurations with LM2940 5V and ballast resistors.
I've read somewhere that those should be 0,1 - 1ohm rating. But non of these values work for me.
I have very specific project: Vin is from 5,5 to 21V , Current is up to 0,5A! On PCB are five LM2940 that should share this current (TO-252).
From the PDF calculations show me that resistors should have 27,7 ohm - do this might be correct???? (please recalculate this since I can do some mistake). I've made PCB with 24ohm, but the current decrees about 50%. I also could not figured out it LM2940 heat up evenly (my feeling were subjective - I don't have thermometer for this moment).
Ballast resistors are used to compensate for the very slight mis-match in output voltages between multiple parallel regulators.
The regulator with the highest output voltage, even if only a few millivolts, will always be providing a larger portion of the load current than the rest of the (lower output voltage) regulators.
With five in parallel, it's very possible that one of the regulators (the one with the lowest output voltage) will never share any current.
Hence, some (or perhaps one) of the regulators will be cooler than the others.
All in all, this is not a very efficient way to operate.
For example, if you have five random LM2940-5.0 devices with no load output voltages of 4.90V, 4.95V. 5.00V, 5.05V, and 5.10V (i.e. 5V +/-2%) and each output has a 1 Ohm series resistor for ballast, the intial load current would all be from the 5.10V output until there was enough IR loss across the ballast resistor to engage the next lowest output (5.05V).
With the 5 output voltages listed above, and a 1 Ohm ballast resistor on each output, at 500 mA load current the individual regulators will supply as follows:
5.10V = 199.7mA (40%) ; 5.05V =149.8mA (30%) ; 5.00V= 100mA (20%) ; 4.95V = 50.1mA (10%) ; 4.90V = 0.3mA (~0%) ; with the voltage at the load = 4.89V
With the 5 output voltages listed above, and a 2 Ohm ballast resistor on each output, at 500 mA load current the individual regulators will supply as follows:
5.10V = 150mA (30%) ; 5.05V = 125mA (25%) ; 5.00V= 100mA (20%) ; 4.95V = 75mA (15%) ; 4.90V = 50mA (10%) ; with the voltage at the load = 4.79V
The secrect is to get very closely matched output voltages among the 5 regulators.
Aaaa, that was very very helpful answer. Now it makes sense for me.
Which formula did you calculate those % usage ?
It seems now that 27 ohm value for ballast will make % usage close to equal distribution of current.
On my final PCB I placed 0,1 ohm 1% resistors. That's why it makes first LM with the highest V output really hot.
Now. Correct me if I'm wrong. Lets say that on full load, on 21 input voltage and 0,5A current the LM with the highest % usage becomes very hot and reaches the temperature limit - in this case 125 deg C. Overheat protection starts to decrease current. Does the decreased load will be taken by other LMs that are cooler?
The PCB won't be often used with 21V input but Voltages like 13V or 16V yes. On 13V input the highest temperature noticed was 85 deg C.
Today I will make test with 21V input and checked the temperature - probably it will reach around 100-110 deg C.
How this affect the vitality of the LMs?
Many many thanks for your answers.
Formula is not finalized yet, but will be soon (I hope) in an application note specifically written for this situation. Results that I gave here are from SPICE simulations.
Keep in mind that the Vout values that I used are just my convenient guess at some typical range of values. The reality will likely be different in some way.
OK, let's say 27 Ohms is your chosen ballast resistor value on each of the five outputs, all regulator outputs are at 5.00V, and the 500mA is evenly distributed so each regulator is providing 100mA ... the voltage at the the will load be somewhere around 5.00V - ((27 ohms/5) * 500mA) = 2.30V. Is that OK for you? My opinion is that it (2.30V) is a bit low if your load is expecting 5.00V.
This highlights the trade-offs involved when using ballast resistors with multiple LDO's. Using larger values can force close to ideal current sharing, but causes unrealistic voltage drops at the load. Using lower values can reduce the voltage drop at the load to acceptable values, but the load sharing between the regulators may not be well defined. You will need to determine the acceptable trade-offs for your application.
Personally, I'd say 5 ohms per output is just about as large as I would go. That would keep the load voltage to about 4.50V, give or take a few tens of milli-volts.
You might want to consider the use of a single SMPS buck regulator with the inherent higher efficiency. The trade off here is that for some small increase in circuit complexity the current sharing issue goes away.
If one device goes into thermal limiting will the others take up the load? Yes. For the National Semi version the thermal limiting temperature will be closer to a junction temperature (Tj) of 150 deg C, and I presume the TI versions will be very similar.
A temperature of 110 deg C, by itself, will not cause any significant change in operation, and is certainly not close to the thermal limiting temperature. There might be a slight change in output voltage(s) due to temperature, but all five LDOs should be at close to the same temperature if they are mounted close together (as they should be). Increasing copper area under the device tabs, using 2 ounce copper instead of 1 ounce, using multi layer boards with thermal via's, etc, can all help keep junction temperature down.
That would be correct. I've made a test with 27ohm resistors and the current drops by 50%. So that's not the way.
Therefore calculations from the PDF from the firsts post are just guide.
And therefore best way to figure out the best value is trial values and tests.
If that day I design the PCB I have knowledge like this day I wouldn't pick 0,1ohm as target value. To bad for me, I can not change it now.
Thus now I have to cope the thermal problems. That's why I ask those thermal limits of LM's.
Yet, 5V is essential. Project drives LED lamps which works around 2,7 and 3,5V. But the LED are driven by ULN2803 which generate quite big voltage drop around 1-1,5V.
PCB is small. 40 x 27mm with TOP and BOTTOM layer. Cooper thickness is 70um. PCB thsickness is 2mm.
I have made as large poles as I could - LM's are TO252.
Please take a look. LM's are all on the BOTTOM side - blue image. During load test on all LM's were glued radiator - flat alu, 2mm thick (40x25mm).
On the TOP layer are micro controller and darlington driver, plus some RLC components.
When the stabilisers reaches 110 C deg (despite of radiator) those elements have aproxx. 80 C deg.
The load test shows that individual temperatures of LM's were from 80 to 110 C deg (therein two of them were 110 and 100-109)
Tomorrow I will try the same load test but with differ radiator with ribs to check if it could help to dissipate heat.
Unfortunately the major heat is transferred into the PCB since the TO252 is SMD mounting element.
About the other regulators. SMPS is not suitable - weight. The PCB needs to be light weight since it will be flying in RC planes in which weight is essential.
I tried with the Switchers. There is big disadvantage of this technology. It's very hard to overcome the EMI noise. It's doable but only under some conditions.
My project futures some sudden current consumptions (by LEDs) that generates problems for regulators to survey the consumption. Even with really big and fast capacitors. We are talking about 150mA peaks. It doesn't seems much yet.
Those EMI interference with RC receivers which above project is designed for and work with.
I have tried to power the PCB with brand mark switcher for RC branch with 3A efficiency - it didn't make it.
That is way I decided to do it with LDO - lower efficiency but no problem with EMI.
Thank you for your answers and help.
P.S. One more thing. Back to the sudden current peaks. Where I can find in datasheet what is the response time for current changes for LM2940?
I'm asking because I've notice some inaccuracies with current consumption. I've calculated real consumption of each LED and in peak it should be 360mA.
But on the voltmeter I notice 430mA (with lower Vin) or even 460mA (higher Vin). Value shows periodically - It's about multimeter sampling. This week I hope to check this on oscilloscope. Could this have something to response time of LM2940? Capacitor is 220uF 25V for IN and 220uF 10V LOW ESR for OUT.
Datasheet does not have line item spec for response time. Generally you can estimate from the output voltage ringing in the Typical Performance Load Step response curve(s). However, with the large output capacitor (220uF) and the series ballast resistors, you have RC filter between LM2940 output pin(s) and the load, so response time of the LM2940 (which will be in the 10's of micro-seconds) will not matter much.
Intitial current demand is suppled by the output capacitor until the LM2940 feedback loop (or, in this case, feedback loops) can respond to any drop in voltage at the output pin(s).
Oscilloscope with current probe is best way check current demand in an active system. Multimeter just cannot sample and display fast enough be useful in this case.
So they are fast enough.
I still didn't measure current with the oscilloscope, but I decrease the general current usage at the HV inputs. Now it takes around 260mA in peak.
I was telling myself that would decrease the amount of heat as well - to bad I was wrong. The LM's are as hot as they were before. Nothing change at all - still 110 C.
The point I measure the temperature of LM is its own (small) radiator, which is also a GND connector soldered to the PCB. DO I understand right - this is not junction temperature? Inside is probably higher than 110. Would this might be 150 C (tem limit) ?
I'm asking because every LM temperature stops at the 110 C like this would be its limits.
You said earlier "... LM's are TO252....", is that actually TO-263 (i.e. LM2940S or LM2940CS)?
Total dissipation: Pdiss= ((21V - 5V) * 260mA) = 4.16W.
Guessing that there is some modest load current sharing so that the LDO with highest output voltage supplies 33% of the load current at start-up then that one device is dissipating: ((21V-5V) * 87mA) = 1.4W.
If the thermal resistance (Theta(j-a)) of your PCB is at no more than 80C/W then the junction temperature will want to rise above ambient: Trise = (1.4W * (80C/W)) = 112C.
If ambient temperature (Ta) is near 25C, then that puts junction temperature :Tj = (Ta + (Pdiss * Theta(j-a))= (25C + 112C)= 137C.
That's getting close, so some small variation could push it to the thermal limit. Heat propagating throught the copper from an adjacent warm LDO ~might~ be enough.
Temperature measured externally will always be lower than the junction temperature at the middle of the silicon die.
Reaching a constant elevated case/tab temperature on several of the LDO's could certainly be an indication that the thermal limiting temperature has been reached.
What would happen, in theory, is that one LDO starts off (at power on) carrying a greater percentage of the load current than the rest, after a few seconds it reaches thermal limiting and starts to reduce it's output current, the output voltage starts to fall, the next lower output voltage picks up some more of the load current, after a short time the second LDO heats up and reaches thermal limiting and starts to reduce it's output current, and so on. Chain reaction.
You could monitor the tab temperature of each of the LDO's as you raise the input voltage in, for instance, 1V increments. You will know that it's thermal limiting if a second or third device starts getting hotter after one device has hit the 110C barrier. Current has transferred to the other device(s) increasing their dissipation.
One way to monitor this is monitor the output voltage at the OUT terminals (before ballast resistor), output current and voltage will fall enough that device dissipation remains constant. How much the voltage falls all depends on how close the next lowest LOD output voltage is. Or, measure the voltage across the ballast resistor to see if the output current is dropping.
I've checked the current consumption on oscilloscope. Whenever the multimeter shows 380mA the real peak was 440mA.
Peak was really short.
Any way since I've modified the code for Atmega, for voltages 12,8 - 21V total consumption is 210mA constans and 260mA at peak.
Sequence looks like this. 210mA for 1 second than 260mA for for 0,5 sec. Loop.
Below 12,8 consumption stays 380mA (real 440mA) at peak.
My test on few PCBs shows that only sometimes second LM reach temperatures around 100 C. Typically is 80-90 C. Others obviously much less.
What it mean after your last post - my conclusion is that first LM reach it's limit, and another one take some of first load and heats up depending on the output voltage.
If the second gets 100 - it means that output V value was close to to the first LM.
I will make the measurements with the dropping Voltages during heating up as you post above.
I was wondering. Since I can not replace all of the ballast resistors, maybe I could replace just only one or two on each PCB.
For ex. after figured out the output V of each LM I will mark two of them with the highest V output. First that will take major load (and heat up the most) and second just after the first.
Then I would replace their ballast resistors with higher values respectively to make the current be shared better.
How higher the values should be? I don't know. And that is I thought maybe you would have some idea how calculate them.
I know its doable, but I know your knowledge and experience make me convinced that the formula won't have mistakes.
Despite the calculations I would make some practical tests.
if off course this is a good way.
thank you
When you measured current, at what point in the circuit was that at?
For the customized, per LDO, ballast resistor calculations ...
We need to know the total load current that needs to be divided up. and we would need to know Vout for each of the LDO's under some defined condition (i.e Vin=12V and Iout= Iload/n). This should be some operating 'sweet spot' to target where we want load current to be very nearly evenly balanced. Then need to determine a target voltage at the load that is at least 100mV lower than the lowest LDO output voltage. Need to keep in mind that load current at ideal 5.00V will probably be different that load current at 4.50V or 4,75V, so there might be some trial-and-error involved here.
For this exercise we can say that the lowest LDO Vout is 4.850V, so the target load voltage (Vload) will be 4.750V
Then go through each LDO,1 thru n, and calculate the ballast resistor value for that individual LDO ...
Rballast1 = ( (Vout1 - Vload) / (Iload / n) )
Rballast2 = ( (Vout2 - Vload) / (Iload / n) )
Rballastn = ( (Voutn - Vload) / (Iload / n) )
You will probably end up with some odd resistor values and it may help to tweak the target load voltage a few millivolts higher (lower R values, less accurate sharing), or a few 10's of millivolts lower (larger R values, more accurate sharing) to get values that are close to standard values. This is a spreadsheet project.
If we go back to those values I threw out for an earlier example : Vout1=4.90V, Vout2=4.95V. Vout3=5.00V, Vout4=5.05V, Vout5=5.10V, Load current is 500mA, and the targeted load voltage is 4.75V, then
Rballast1 = ( (4.900V - 4.750V) / (500mA / 5) ) = (150mV / 100mA) = 1.50 ohm
Rballast2 = ( (4.950V - 4.750V) / (500mA / 5) ) = (200mV / 100mA) = 2.00 ohm
Rballast3 = ( (5.000V - 4.750V) / (500mA / 5) ) = (250mV / 100mA) = 2.50 ohm
Rballast4 = ( (5.050V - 4.750V) / (500mA / 5) ) = (300mA / 100mA) = 3.00 ohm
Rballast5 = ( (5.100V - 4.750V) / (500mA / 5) ) = (350mA / 100mA) = 3.50 ohm
SPICE shows that at the target total load current of 500mA the load current is shared evenly at 100mA per LDO.
At the end of all this it is unlikely that you will have everything fall into exact standard values so you will need to make some judgment calls on what you want to trade off or how you will make adjustments. All in all, this does not lend itself well to any kind of volume production.
Longer term, I would suggest that you consider modifications to the PCB copper area to improve heat dissipation from the LDO packages through the PCB. I would suggest multi-layer PCB with the inner layer connected via multiple thermal vias directly under the TABs of the packages. On the existing layout I would sugsest vias to move heat to the copper area on the other side of the board. I doubt that there would be more than a small percentage improvement from increasing the existing copper thickness from 70 microns to 105 microns.
Holy LM! :-)
Let me read this couple of times so I will understand this formula and then I will reply :-)
Basically, after you decide (or take an educated guess at) a few operating points, it's Ohms law.
How much current needs to get divided up? You can use Peak current or Average current, or whatever you believe is best.
What is the lowest output voltage from the regulators involved? Measure them all, or get the worst case tolerance from datasheet, or ~guess~ based on your experience.
How low can the voltage on the load go? You WILL have voltage drop across the ballast resistors, and the voltage at the load WILL be less than the lowest output..
You know the voltage across each resistor (E = Voutn - Vload), and you know the current you want through each resistor (I = Iload/5), so ... R = E/I
OK, first back to your previous post.
Load was measured on power supply, so before LMs.
For the first test I will try to replace only two resistor to make better sharing between two closest stabilizers.
I want to make this intentionally to find out if heat spread on to two LM will lower each one below for ex. 100 deg.
Other ballast resistors stays 0,1 ohm, so their current share is negligible .
For this time I will use default Vout you undertake previously. And lets try to share the current between those two LM:
In = 0,44/2 = ~ 220mA
Rballast1 = ( (5.050V - 4.750V) / (220mA ) = (300 / 220mA) = 1,36 ohm
Rballast2 = ( (5.100V - 4.750V) / (220mA ) = (350 / 220mA) = 1,59 ohm
It seems like the problem is that resistor values are not much different from each other.
And it's impossible to buy values like calculated above.
I will check what are the real values for Vout of LMs on my test PCB.


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1 lb of cleaned Calamari (body sliced into thin rings)
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½ cup Red Wine Vinegar
2 cups Olive Oil
Pinch of salt & black pepper to taste
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We take a conservative approach to changing the Best Children's Hospitals methodology. Any modification affects the rankings, and consequently might alter a parent's choice of hospital for a sick child. Data points are most often added when previously unavailable clinical data emerge that can, and therefore should, help fill in the portrait of hospitals' quality and safety.
In the forthcoming rankings, for example, one newly added measure evaluates bloodstream infections caused by urinary catheters. Children are at higher risk for such infections than adults are. The pathway into the body is shorter and more direct, giving a child's immune system, which is less developed than an adult's, less time to identify and kill invading microbes.
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The weight of reputation in a hospital's overall score will not change. It will still be worth 25 percent, or 25 points in a hospital's 0 to 100 score. But in past years, the hospital with the highest reputational score in cancer or other specialty got credit for all 25 points, even if it was nominated by considerably fewer than 100 percent of the specialists who responded to the survey. (This is a standard statistical practice, called normalization.) Points awarded to hospitals with lesser reputations depended on their scores compared with the top scorer. If Hospital A had the highest reputational score (say 75 percent) and Hospital B's score was 45 percent, Hospital A got 25 points and Hospital B got 45/75ths as many, or 15 points—a difference of 10 points.
In the 2012-13 rankings, however, all hospitals get the number of points indicated by their reputational score. Hospital A from the example above would receive .75 x 25, or 18.75 points, towards its overall score. Hospital B would get .45 x 25, or 11.25 points. The difference between them has narrowed to 7.5 points. Nor is any hospital ever likely to receive the full 25 points. It would require every physician responding to the survey to name the hospital. That has never happened.
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How dare they auction off NY police corruption on E-bay? Godfadder Bloomberg is in charge of that.Da goddfadder aint gonna be happy...
I had a card from the Dallas Sheriff´s Union that I carried for years. Unfortunately, it was only good in Texas...
Does this form of corruption go on in all major American cities?
Thanks to the Internet, that little secret is out.
Seeing a PBA placard or sticker on cars in the New York area is pretty common.
Hah hah! Serves them right! I am so sick of the corruption in this country....
A friend of mine had a bunch of those. Never got a parking ticket, speeding ticket, nothing.
NYS troopers do the same thing. Aren´t unions great? Nothing stops their greed.
Earlier this month, Dennis Miller mentioned on his radio show that many comedians perform at police benefits just to get these cards. After they gave him his card, he looked at it for a while, thinking about the implications. He threw it out. Good call.
Here in PA, I have to chuckle at the sight of FOP tags affixed to state plates or personalized tags which have the FOP logo imprinted on them. There will always be suckups in all areas of life. Nothing surprises me!Ecclesiastes 1:9, ".....and there is nothing new under the sun.!


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2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
1/4 teaspoon coarse-ground pepper
2 tablespoons lemon juice
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2 teaspoons fresh thyme leaves, chopped
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2. Broil the tomatoes: Heat oven to 400 degrees F. Arrange the halved tomatoes on a baking pan. Brush with 1 tablespoon olive oil, sprinkle with the garlic, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and the pepper, and roast for 10 minutes. Heat oven to broil and continue to cook until tomatoes begin to brown - about 5 minutes. Remove tomatoes from oven and set aside.
3. Prepare farro salad: Combine the lemon juice and remaining salt in a medium bowl. Add 1/4 cup olive oil in a thin, steady stream while whisking continuously. Set aside. Heat the remaining olive oil over medium-high heat in a medium skillet. Add the cooked farro and toss just until warmed-2 to 3 minutes. Transfer to a large serving platter or bowl, add the feta, olives, lemon-juice mixture, and fresh thyme leaves and gently toss to combine. Top with the broiled tomatoes and serve immediately.
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Unrest hits tourism in North and South
Unrest hits tourism in North and South
SARS, chicken flu, tsunami, coup d'etat, PAD, how much more can the tourism industry take?
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pachangamac042 wrote:I saw it coming, but how bad a high season may we have this year?
SARS, chicken flu, tsunami, coup d'etat, PAD, how much more can the tourism industry take?
It's probably of no interest to whoever wrote that, that the world economy is in the toilet and that no one has money to travel....
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[b]From a peak of $9.2bn in 2006, foreign direct investment dropped to $6.1bn in 2007, reflecting the turmoil that accompanied massive anti-government protests and a September 2006 military coup. In the first six months of 2008, Thailand, south-east Asia's second largest economy and a hub of foreign manufacturing, received just $1.69bn in foreign investment inflows.[/b]
The SARS, Bird flue and Tsunami all happened pre 2006
From a peak of 9.2bn USD in 2006 to a very probable 3.5bn USD by the end of 2008..though its likely to be less, cause the last 6 months of 2008 are even harder than thr 1st 6 months...
You cannot ignore that political shennanigins created by Sonthi (who seems to be the only person and or business making money in this day and age...) have not had their effect...a very negative one....I am so angry with that group of Fascist people for basically dragging Thailand back 10 yrs
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Oilprice, World economy and strong Baht.
But the PAD...no way!
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Thanks paulblueeyes
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pachangamac042 wrote:Sorry Doc, but I do think that the PAD has had an influence. As a former tour operator for South-East Asia myself, I still have many friends in the business, and they all had something in common, many stranded costumers in Bangkok and Phuket airport, the day some folks decided to close down Phuket airport. As a professional, you should know what problems that caused. And as professionals, all my colleagues are honest to say today, that they do NOT recommend Thailand as holiday destination, simply because nobody can know what will be tomorrow or after tomorrow. As a pro you do not gamble with the fate of your costumers. And yes, as I said, the bookings are down a bit in general, but heavily for Thailand. Aparently this year is going to Bali, then Vietnam and Cambodia.
Oh...man...that is all so wrong!
Our company had 1 (one!) cancellation from Germany...that is it!
I know that blocking an airport is a problem...but please...we are acting as if Thailand is the only country in the world , where this is happening.
Last February Frankfurt Airport was had hit by Lufthansa strike...did anyone bother?
If your friends don't recommend anyone coming to Thailand now, because nobody know waht tomorrow will bring...then THEY are the pronlem and not PAD!
I don't know what will be tomorrow...nobody knows.
But that is also true for the rest of the world.
I recommend anyone to come to Thailand and I think of myself as a pro.
Even IF we have another coup...will that really affect ANYONE on Phuket or in Pattaya? In Khao Lak or Samui? Even in Bangkok???
I am acting responsible, even more so, as nobody can say what will be tomorrow!
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While I admit that Thailand has some problems and issues that need to be addressed, find me any other country in the world that doesn't also have their own share of problems that makes them any different from Thailand?
1) The rich get better educations for their children - Been happening since before Aristotle (384-322 BCE) was a teacher.
2) All politicians are corrupt and only in it for the money - Been happening since human being banded together to form villages.
3) The police are corrupt - Show me a country where they aren't
4) The Education System is a sham - It's inline with about 95% of the rest of the world.
5) People murdered on the beaches - Happens every day on beaches around the world.
6) Dollar to Baht Exchange Rate is bad - Are you nuts???? I LOVE the exchange rate!!
Again, Thailand has it's problems, but as far as I'm concerned it it still one of the best places to visit, especially the northern provinces, and by far one of the best places to live. Instead of all of you "Negative Nanny's" complaining about "what's wrong" with Thailand, why don't you try commenting on "What's Good" with Thailand? Despite everything, I have come to love this country and love the people, and as I was known for saying back in America, if you don't like it here you have two choices: a) get involved to help make changes, b) go live someplace else and see how well you like it there.
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I see that there are still people who think that everything is ok in Thailand. Well, I think that the situation is more like a time bomb, specially after yesterdays morning news.
I know that big time pro Doc will not agree with me, but still I would like to clarify, why that many of my touroperator friends do not recommend to travel to Thailand right now. Let us see, first there are some countries in the world, which issued travel warnings for trips to Thailand. That is something which should not be ignored. But worse was the closing down of airports, and are some reasons why;
A – There have been many tourists, arriving to Bangkok after a long 12 hours flight and expecting to take a connecting flight to Phuket, were they had their hotels reserved. No flights available because of the closing of Phuket airport. No luggage, because the luggage handling was a complete chaos. Checked through luggage has been messed up. So, it is midnight in Europe, early morning in Bangkok, tour operator phones are ringing with stranded people who needed help. Even TG and the local representatives were very helpful, there was not much they could do and some luggage showed up only 2 days later. New reservations had to be made in other hotels, mostly Bangkok, Pattaya and Hua Hin. Refund of the already reserved hotels. Refunds of transfers. Refund of flight tickets.
B – There have been many tourists in Phuket, which finished their 1 week stay in Phuket and were ready to join the 8 days North Thailand tour ex Bangkok. This guests had no way to be in BKK for the start of their tours and of course they had no longer a hotel reservation in Phuket. Again, new arangements had to be done. Flights rebooked. Talks with airline representatives regarding refunds. The whole Northern Thailand tours had to be resheduled, and so on.
C – Guests finishing their holidays on Phuket, Krabi or Khaolak and ready to go back home. That was aparently the worst part of it. People are booked on longhaul flights but they were stranded in Phuket with no way to go, but back to the hotels. To rebook all this guests was a mayor challenge and only possible with the fantastic support of involved airlines. Even so, some people got only home up to 4 days later than what they were sheduled. People missed days at work and other apointments they had, amongs many other things.
D – Busines people on duty, big time trouble. Many of them had important apointments for important businesses, very thight shedules and no time for extra, unplanned holidays. More losts.
There was much more to it than mentioned above, but I hope that people may get an idea what chaos the closing of a touristical important airport has caused. There was a huge additional workload for people involved, and of course, all of this extra work has been done for free as I do not see the PAD paying for demage done. Even worse was the demage done to the guests. Some of the complains must have been realy ugly even it was not the tour operators misstake misstake. But how do you explain such things to people who are just in for a good time or some work related business. Good luck that it happened before high season, imagine the airport closing would have been around X-mas time. Well, that would have been a real mess.
So please Doc and other optimists; can you guarantee that no more airports will be closed in the future? I do not think so, and that is why a serious tourism expert would not recommend trips to Thailand right now. Even if it is only to safe yourselve and your guests a lot of possible troubles in the future.
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Thailand is a Southeast Asian country bordered by Burma, Laos, Cambodia, and Malaysia. The climate is classified as tropical due to variable monsoon seasons. Residents can expect warm weather associated with the southwest monsoon season and cooler weather associated with the northeast monsoon season. The southern part of Thailand exhibits a consistent hot climate. The country is endowed with natural resources such as tin, rubber, natural gas, tungsten, tantalum, timber, lead, fish, gypsum, lignite, fluorite, and arable land. Thailand has a number of natural hazards including sinking land and droughts. The government structure in use is defined as a constitutional monarch with tri-branch structure. This includes an executive, legislative, and judicial branch. Thailand has a population of 67,448,120 people. This is ranked 20th in the world as of July 2013. The primary language spoken in this country is Thai. It contains variants depending on the region and people that speak it. English is spoken by those who are well educated. According to a 2010 estimate, 7.8% of the population lives below the poverty line.
Photo GalleryGDP (purchasing power parity): $645.7 billion (2012 est.) Country comparison to the world: 25 Note: data are in 2012 US dollarsGDP - per capita (PPP): $10,000 (2012 est.) Country comparison to the world: 117 Note: data are in 2012 US dollarsCurrency: 1 United States Dollar = 31.04 Thai Baht (THB)Environment: Current issues: air pollution from vehicle emissions; water pollution from organic and factory wastes; deforestation; soil erosion; wildlife populations threatened by illegal huntingInfant Mortality Rate: Total: 15.41 deaths/1,000 live births Country comparison to the world: 107 Male: 16.38 deaths/1,000 live births Female: 14.39 deaths/1,000 live births (2013 est.)Life Expectancy at Birth: Total population: 74.05 years Country comparison to the world: 115 Male: 71.66 years Female: 76.58 years (2013 est.)Total Fertility Rate: 1.66 children born/woman (2013 est.) Country comparison to the world: 175Literacy: Definition: age 15 and over can read and write Total population: 92.6% Male: 94.9% Female: 90.5% (2000 census)Unemployment rate: 0.6% (2012 est.) Country comparison to the world: 4