Noob question thread! 2020_Summer

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There’s an extensive list of converters in here:

Power Converters Wiki (i.e. Buck Converter, Linear Regulator, UBEC/SBEC, etc)

To avoid losing the answers from this frequently asked question in other threads, it seems useful to create a wiki listing commonly used power converters. Someone, at some point, will have no idea what a power converter is or why you’d need one. I’m no expert, but here’s some background info copy & pasted from elsewhere: WHAT: DC-DC Converter - an electromechanical device that converts a source of direct current (DC) from one voltage level to another. Everything in this post is a DC-DC conv…