How do you calculate lost volts?

Answer:

There's a couple ways.

You could count the number of semiconductor junctions, resistances and other voltage attenuators, do all your Ohm's Law and drop calculations to come up with a reasonably good number...but if the circuit has been constructed, you could always just power it up, read the voltages at the supply and at whatever point you're trying to calculate the voltage loss for, and subtract one from the other.

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