Introduction A common problem in power distribution systems is loss of regulation due to the cable/wire voltage drop between the regulator and the load. Any increase in wire resistance, cable length or load current increases the voltage drop over ...
Vladimir Rentyuk EDN Most engineers know that they can use an inexpensive, three-terminal adjustable regulator, such as Fairchild Semiconductor’s LM317 , as an adjustable regulator to only some necessary value of voltage, such as 36 or 3 V. ...
When a MOSFET or IGBT gate-threshold voltage is higher than the available drive voltage, it's standard to use an op amp or other driver to bridge the difference. This circuit uses a basic optocoupler plus a few simple passive components to ...
Vladimir Rentyuk EDN A TL431 shunt regulator is a perfect choice for many applications. You can use it as a comparator with hysteresis by taking advantage of its inner voltage reference along with few additional components. You can use this ...
Most isolated, offline SMPSs (switched-mode power supplies), including flyback, forward, and resonant, must operate at input voltages of 90 to 260 V rms. Some cases even use line-to-line voltages of 400 V rms 10%, leading to increased ...
Requiring only a handful of inexpensive components, the circuit breaker in Figure 1 responds to both overcurrent- and overvoltage-fault conditions. At the heart of the circuit, D 2 , an adjustable, precision, shunt-voltage regulator, provides a ...
Design Note 521 Introduction A DC/DC converter’s efficiency and component temperature are important considerations in high power applications where high current could overheat the catch diode used in an asynchronous buck or boost topology. ...
Charlie Zhao, Linear Technology Design Note 532 Introduction The wide 4 V to 150 V input range of the LTC3639 stepdown DC/DC converter allows automotive, avionics and distributed power systems to: Cover extensive transient requirements Enable ...
Power supplies with adjustable DC output ranging from 0 V to 30 V or 60 V are on the market. Above 60 V, there are not many. This Design Idea offers a solution. There are many fixed voltage switching mode power supplies (SMPS) available, and ...
As the power consumption of individual cards increases in rack-mounted systems, current consumption necessarily follows suit. A point is reached where the current delivered by the backplane becomes untenable, and the only solution is to increase ...