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Figure 1: Schematic of the flyback converter. After the transformer is inserted, the elements in green have to be selected and tuned.
5/16/2013
Fourth of a series on designing and building an offline flyback converter
Power Transformer Testing
Figure 1 shows the schematic of the flyback converter with the transformer inserted into the circuit. Before applying the full load on the circuit, the elements in green have to be selected and tuned for proper operation.
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Articles
| 5/16/2013 |
Fourth of a series on designing and building an offline flyback converter
Power Transformer Testing
Figure 1 shows the schematic of the flyback converter with the transformer inserted into the circuit. Before applying the full load on the circuit, the elements in green have
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| 5/16/2013 |
Alix Paultre, Editorial Director of Power Systems Design, and Dr. Ray Ridley
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| 5/14/2013 |
Designing and building an offline flyback converter
This article is the third of a series in which Dr. Ridley shows the steps involved in designing and building an offline flyback converter. The input filter rectifier is simulated to find the design range
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| 5/8/2013 |
In this video, Dr. Ridley presents the agenda for this unique power supply design
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| 5/3/2013 |
In this second part of a series of videos on frequency response analysis, Dr.
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| 5/1/2013 |
In this video, the first part of a series of videos on frequency response analysis,
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| 3/9/2013 |
This article is the second of a series in which Dr. Ridley shows the steps involved in designing and building an offline flyback converter. The second part of the series begins testing on the bias and
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| 2/28/2013 |
This article is the second of a series in which Dr. Ridley shows the steps involved in designing and building an offline flyback converter. The second part of the series begins testing on the bias
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| 1/25/2013 |
This article is the first of a series in which Dr. Ridley shows the steps involved in designing and building an offline flyback converter. The first part of the series presents the power supply architecture
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| 1/9/2013 |
In this article, Dr. Ridley continues the discussion of power supplies with input filters. He shows how the presence of a poorly-designed filter has a drastic effect on the loop gain of a voltage-mode
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| 12/22/2012 |
In this article, Dr. Ridley continues the discussion of power supplies with input filters. He shows how the output impedance of the input filter is measured, and demonstrates the importance of input filter
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| 11/10/2012 |
In this article, Dr. Ridley continues the discussion of input impedance measurements, and shows the effect of properly locating all of the input filter components. Middlebrook’s input filter stability
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| 9/7/2012 |
In this third part of this series of articles, Dr. Ridley discusses the fourth important frequency-response measurement made during full characterization of a switching power supply. The closed-loop input
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| 5/18/2012 |
In this article, Dr. Ridley provides further insight into frequency response measurements of transformers and inductors using equipment that you probably already have in your laboratory. An improved signal
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