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If you need 5 volts or 12 volts at a respectable current they’re extremely useful, so quite a few people have used them as bench power supplies. Some of these builds box up the mess of wires ...
I used transformer just because I had it laying around. The switching preregulator is actually buck converter realised with LM2576-ADJ and it keeps constant 1.5 V on the LDO. The MCU I used is ...