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Summary: What an adventure!
Review: I did the right thing - I ordered this AND the venerable Abrahamson book.Up until that time I had only discerned the subject in hints and veiled inter departmental discussions - and it was the start of a wonderful two months period in which so much was revealed - I have rarely enjoyed a book so much! Now look, I don't work for Mr Amazon.com, but I would urge you to get both. This book (the one by Keith Billings) has lots of detail which the Abrahamson book skips a wee bit. They dovetail together beautifully - and the Abrahamson book includes a bit more breadth on the possible topologies. One of my favorite chapters in THIS book is the excellent exposition on biploar and FET drive circuits. Its made very clear - this man is a BORN teacher... This book even tells you how to select fuses, filter capacitors (the point being that the values you chose last month might well be right, but after this text you will know with far greater confidence, as it were) I must say that the one thing that both books are a little light on is the subject of CUK convertors, which I will have to get wisdom on from elsewhere I guess. The other thing that NEITHER books mention, which in fact is hard to find, is the design of planar transformers. This is a complex area involving quite a lot of maths, so I've been told. You can find some material in IEEE transactions on power electronics, and similar journals, but you may have to hunt a bit. Philips / Ferroxcube are good for this, too. The Abrahamson book covers current fed convertors. This includes a section on flyback current fed convertors - in which I think he forgot to elaborate on the case where the input transformer returns to the input, rather than the output, which appears to reduce input ripple and improves the power factor. But this case is handled quite well in the references given at the end of the chapter, so no matter. Its a very exciting chapter - but the Billings book doesn't cover them at all, which is a pity, since there's quite a lot of utility for these very stable topologies, involving quite light voltage and current strain on the switching transistors. I wish the books could go on even further, but all I can be is grateful... I must say also that the safety aspect of design is covered well in both books, both European and American.
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Summary: Table of Contents
Review: Part 1~Functions and Requirements Common to Most Direct-Off-Line Switchmode Power Supplies 1. Common Requirements: an Overview 2. AC Powerline Surge Protection 3. Electromagnetic Interference (EM) in Switchmode Power Supplies 4. Faraday Screens 5. Fuse Selection 6. Line Rectifictaion and Capacitor Input Filters for "Direct-Off-Line" Switchmode Power Supplies 7. Inrush Control 8. Start-Up Methods 9. Soft Start and Low-Voltage Inhibit 10. Turn-On Voltage Overshoot Prevention 11. Overvoltage Protection 12. Undervoltage Protection 13. Overload Protection 14. Foldback (Reentrant) Output Current Limiting 15. Base Drive Requirements for High-Voltage Bipolar transistors 16. Proportional Drive Circuits for Bipolar Transistors 17. Antisaturation Techniques for High-Voltage Transistors 18. Snubber Networks 19. Cross Conduction 20. Output Filters 21. Power Failure Warning Circuits 22. centering (Adjustment to Center) of Auxiliary Output Viltages on Multiple-Output Converters 23. Ausiliary Supply Systems 24.Parallel Operation of Voltage: Stabilized Power Supplies Part 2~Desigh: Theory and Practice 1. Multiple-Output Flyback Switchmode Power Supplies 2. Flyback Transformer Design 3. Reducing Transistor Switching Stress 4. Slecting Power Components for Flyback Converters 5. The Diagonal Half-Bridge Flyback Converter 6. Self-Oscillating Direct-Off-Line Flyback Converters 7. Applying Current-Mode Control to Flyback Converters 8. Direct-Off-Line Single-Ended Forward Converters 9. Transformer Design for Forward Converters 10. Diagonal Half-Bridge Forward Converters 11. Transformer Desigh for Diagonal Half-Bridge FOrward Converters 12. Half-Bridge Push-Pull Duty-Ratio-Controlled Converters 13. Bridge Converters 14. Low-Power Self-Oscillating Ausiliary Converters 15. Single-Transformer Two-Transistor Self-Oscillating Converters 16. Two-Transformer Self-Oscillating Converters 17. The DC-to-DC Transformer Concept 18. Multiple-Output Compound Regulating Systems 19. Duty-Ratio-Controlled Push-Pull Converters 20. DC-to-DC Switching Regulators 21. High-Frequency Saturable Reactor Power Rebulators (Magnetic Duty Ratio Control) 22. Constant-Current Power Supplies 23. Variable Linear Power Supplies 24. Switchmode Variable Power Supplies 25. Switchmode Variable Power Supply Transformer Desigh Part 3~Applied Design 1. Inductors and Chokes in Switchmode Supplies 2. High-Current Chokes Using Iron Powder Cores 3. Choke Design Using Iron Powder Toroidal Cores 4. Switchmode Transformer Design: General Principles 5. Optimum 150-W Transformer Design Example Using Nomograms 6. Transformer Staircase Saturation 7. Flux Doubling 8. Stability and Control-Loop Compensation in SMPS 9. The Right-Half-Plane Zero 10. Current-Mode Control 11. Optocouplers 12. Ripple Current Ratings for Electrolytic Capacitors in Switchmode Power Supplies 13. Noninductive Current Shunts 14. Current Transformers 15. Current Probes for Measurement Purposes 16. Thermal Management (In Switchmode Power Supplies) Part 4~Supplementary 1. Active Power Factor Correction
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Summary: Excelent refernce source
Review: This book does an excelent job of providing facts and information needed to design switchmode supplies. It gives numerical examples and shows the underlying theories.
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Summary: Theory is well explained. Very practical.
Review: This book is a must for any switch mode power supply designer. The book covers all the popular power converter topologies being used today. There are chapters on peripheral circuits to the main power stage which are rarely seen in other power supply books.The book includes many practical examples that makes the theory easier to understand.
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