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The control circle is a key territory in hardware building that experts today need to ace. As opposed to digging into the comprehensive hypothesis, this handy book centers around what you truly need to know to supplant or introduce a particular control framework. You can in a split second change to handy segments with many plan models and instant recipes to assist you with your ventures in this field. You can likewise discover the inclusion of the establishments and standards of control circles with the goal that you can get a progressively complete comprehension of the material. This legitimate volume discloses how to examine control frameworks and gives far-reaching insights concerning down to earth remuneration. It encourages you to measure your framework and tells the best way to check that the model is steady and has an adequate structure edge. Also, you figure out how to protect high volume creation with wellbeing edges introduced on the seat.
A few weeks ago, I found myself groping for some sorely needed inspiration. I was even
questioning the very need for a book on this particular subject. So despite spending fi ve
years in the general vicinity of the legend behind it, I fi nally went and bought myself the
“other” book—Troubleshooting Analog Circuits by Robert Pease. I am glad I did, because
it ended up fulfi lling both my requirements—I not only learned that his book is truly is an
inspiring resource (certainly something to chuckle your way through coach class with
pretzels and coffee in hand), but also that it isn’t about Power Conversion. Take, for
example, that famous picture on its cover. The hopelessly entangled object you see there
(the creation, not the creator) apparently served as a historic V-F (voltage-to-frequency)
converter circuit. But really, it would never pass muster as even a basic switching converter.
Breadboards, for one, are kryptonite to switching converters. If you really think about it, all
that that picture so aptly conveys is exactly what you shouldn’t ever be attempting to do in
power. Reassuringly, even that book itself recognizes that “switch-mode regulators [are] a
whole new ball-game.”
So it was surprising for me to learn that the analog troubleshooting book was originally
intended to be just a single chapter of a much larger volume on the topic of switching
power converters. Maybe that project just slipped through the cracks of time. Perhaps it was
too diffi cult a venture to undertake—a hypothesis somewhat supported by the fact that there
is still virtually no other book out there on this topic (cheers to the book you’re holding, by
the way!). But I also tend to believe that if it were published in the format it seems to have
been originally conceived in, it could well have turned out to be quite misleading—for
reasons very similar to that on the cover of the analog book. For a while, that had me
seriously thinking: “whose bright idea was that?” Then I realized that back in those days,
Power Conversion was still in its infancy. Who knew what lay ahead?
In the early 1970s, the Intel 8080 microprocessor was dazzling engineers around the world
with its blazing computational speed of 2MHz! “Digital” became the anthem for a new
Contents Of The Book:
Chapter 1: Thinking Power.
Chapter 2: High-Frequency Effects and the Importance of Input Decoupling.
Chapter 3: Output Noise and Filtering.
Chapter 4: Using Capacitors Wisely.
Chapter 5: Maximizing the Effectiveness of the Ground Plane.
Chapter 6: Printed Circuit Board Layout for AC-DC and DC-DC Converters.
Chapter 7: Working without a Ground Plane.
Chapter 8: Home-Grown Strategies in Troubleshooting.
Chapter 9: Effective Bench Work.
Chapter 10: Effi ciency Rules.
Chapter 11: Magnetics, EMI, and Noise.
Chapter 12: Discussion Forums, Datasheets, and Other Real-World Issues.
Information About The Book:
Title: Troubleshooting Switching Power Converters: A Hands-on Guide.
Language: English.
Size: 7.68 Mb.
Pages: 311.
Format: PDF
Year: 2007.
Edition: 1.
Author: Sanjaya Maniktala.