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Does a voltage limit in a battery increase amperage over all? [closed]

I have an 18 V battery with a 4 Ah battery. If I limit the voltage output to 9 V with a buck converter or voltage regulator, how would limiting the voltage affect the amount of current output?
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Using an old eBike battery to power an electric trolling motor

I have a couple of old 36v eBike batteries lying around. I also have a Minn Kota Endura C2 30 electric trolling motor for my small boat which needs a battery. My previous experience with a large lead ...
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Why is my buck converter emitting smoke and fire?

I am powering my router from a 24 V battery, but the power requirement of router is 12 V/1 A, so I am using an LM2596 buck converter. The specification for this buck converter is as follows: Input ...
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Inductor and Capacitor for Bidirectional DC-DC Converter with Battery

I have to design a bidirectional converter to regulate a DC bus at 250 V with a battery bank at 144 V. My question is how to do it optimally, because I do not know the maximum ripple allowed in the ...
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Battery Charger using a buck converter

I'm designing a Lead Acid battery charger with 3 stages. For the 2nd stage (constant voltage stage) as it is written in literature: the voltage applied on the battery must be dependent on temperature. ...
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How to adjust output current on a buck converter?

I 'm planing to use a zinc–carbon 9 V battery to power up: the circuit that battery belongs to BeagleBoard-xM I 'm thinking of using a breadboard, in order to power up both circuits. Beagleboard-xM'...
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Building a low-power solar/wind buck-boost converter

Using a 18V(max) solar panel, I'd like to charge a 12V lead-acid battery. I'm working from the basic inverting buck-boost circuit. My main question is, being a relatively low-power circuit, can I ...
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