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I am designing a battery charger which gives 13.8V 7A or 27.6v 3.5A. The topology is flyback and I decide the output(27V or 13V) with two jumpers. the problem is that when I switch from 13.8 to 27.6V, VCC also increases ()and I dont want VCC to increase above 30V because the FPS of fairchild shuts down. So I put a 22V 1W zener diode and a resistor to limit the current of zener on VCC circuitry. but those dissipate too much power and zener live on the limits. Is there a nice method(fast and cheap) to limit the voltage on VCC rather than using a zener+resistor. thanks in advance