Hi all I am a newby at electronics so appologise in advance if my question is simple and obvious.
I have a 12 volt source and wish to attach various loads to it none of which shoud draw more than 1/2 an amp 500ma. However any which of them could be short circuited. if that hapens I dont want the voltage drop to bring down the other loads or burn out the wires. I get the feeling that I could do this with a single component Linear voltage regulator or something similar but I don't know.
Please help.
I have a 12 volt source and wish to attach various loads to it none of which shoud draw more than 1/2 an amp 500ma. However any which of them could be short circuited. if that hapens I dont want the voltage drop to bring down the other loads or burn out the wires. I get the feeling that I could do this with a single component Linear voltage regulator or something similar but I don't know.
Please help.