Even as electronic components shrink, it is always an easy task to spot the power supply section on small-sized boards given the large amount of space the inductive and capacitive filter components ...

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Switch-mode power supplies based on pulse-width modulation (PWM) have been in use since the early 1970s. One of their ...

A follow-up to the article “Design a PFC Resonant Coupled Inductor That Doesn’t Distort Power Factor” (July 2015) described the design of the resonant inductor. This article describes how ...

Many novel approaches to reduce ripple have been tried by manufacturers, including placing a filter on the output of the single-phase power supply, but with limited success. Other low-ripple power ...

Because power supplies are used to deliver a stable and reliable source of electricity to industrial manufacturing machinery, care must be taken to select the right industrial power supplies for your ...

Today, 80% of all input/output (I/O) devices in automation applications are supplied with 24VDC power. The second most popular voltage is 120VAC, which is used on 15% of all I/Os. Over the past decade ...