Bill Traue, CSRE, 8-VSB, AMD is principal of Bill Traue Technical Services. He acknowledges that when it comes to fixing dead switched-mode power supplies, the small wall-wart or line-lump type aren’t ...

The Tektronix 2000 series of oscilloscopes are a mainstay for any electronics lab. They work, they’re relatively cheap, they’re good, and they’re available in just about any surplus electronics store.

We should all be so lucky as [Salvaged circuitry], who scored a cheap Agilent oscilloscope from an online auction. Of course, its low price had a reason behind it, the ‘scope didn’t work. At fault was ...

Both switching and linear regulators in power supplies carry out the identical task of producing a regulated output voltage from an uncontrolled input voltage. However, they carry out this duty using ...

In today’s day and age the most often used topology for electronic power supplies is that of the Switch Mode Power Supply (SMPS), which is a major user of magnetics. In some applications the & “older ...

Learn more about integrating GaN power FETs into switch-mode power supplies and what you must change when upgrading from silicon MOSFETs. The power-handling properties of GaN. The unique challenges of ...

The influences and tolerance that impact SMPS voltage accuracy. Tools that can be used to optimize a power-converter circuit loop and measure load transients. Switch-mode power supplies (SMPS) have a ...