"Morgans" wrote in message
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I'm admitting that I'm not the world's best when it comes to those
electrons, all running around helter skelter,

Me neither, but I've got a lot of people hoodwinked...


but I thought a dropping
resistor only worked with a certain sized (constant) load. If you checked
voltage at the plug with a volt meter, you would come out with 24 volts;
if
you checked it with the lighter going, you would come up with 12 volts.
Right?

Absolutely correct.



That being the case, you have to use a converter, or a regulator, or
something. I don't know. Anybody?

With switching regulators now coming into the market about as simple to use
as bait, I'm going to run a two or three parter in Kitplanes on how to build
simple switchers to go UP or DOWN.

Jim