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Need help wiring a voltage divider to turn 24 volts into 5v. Since my breakout board only takes a 5 volt input how would I go about doing this. I found a cheap voltage divider on Amazon. I need to wire it to a 3 wire prox black, brown, blue wires. The prox gets 24v, but I need to regulate it down to 5 on the signal side. Any help you could give would be great.
Not knowing how much current your 5v break out board needs, it make it hard to answer. If it not very much I would use a wall plug that has a power supply that puts out 5V.
something like this Wilson AC/DC 5V Power Supply w/ Mini USB Jack Sleek Mobile Pro/DataPro(859969) from Solid Signal
Can you not get if from one of the 4 pin plugs on the PC P.S.?
What is the 5v supplying? If you have a power transformer in the system you could wind around a few turns on, 10 turns should do it with a bridge rectifier and cap.
There is also the cheap wall-wart type, these are now regulated supplies.
Al.
He needs a level shifter from what I understand. OP has a 24v proximity switch that has a pnp output. Use a resistor network...6.2k & 1.6k.