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Power Electronics: Converters, Applications, and Design

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Good power electronics textbook. I use it for my power electronics course at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. It covers a lot of material well, including switching power converters, thermal and magnetics design. It's a bit thin in some important subjects, such as current mode control.

Marc T. Thompson, Ph.D.

This is a great survey of power electronics for someone with a modest electrical engineering background. It presents terminology, hardware, circuits and analysis in an approachable and well organized way. After reading it, someone with little prior experience can have a clear sense of what the field is about, what devices are available, and what technology is appropriate for specific power and voltage levels.

That said, as another reviewer pointed out, the book is a little light on math and detailed circuit topology. Erickson and Maksimovic was a much better fit for my needs.

Although a little light on full converter schematics, this textbook contained excellent descriptions of converter building blocks and semiconductor device physics. It is excellent that it came with a simulator program too.

This book lacks two very important parts, example problems and solutions to the chapter problems. There is not one sample problem worked out in the entire book, and no explanations or solutions to the problems at the end of the chapters. How are you supposed to understand the problems without one single example?! I hope your instructor gives you good examples in class, because this book won't. That being said, the explanations are OK, and there are some good drawings and circuit diagrams. If you need examples like me, find a different book.

This book is the best power electronics book in terms of fundementals. However there are other books which can be more detailed in mathematics or circuit types. An engineer who is specialised in power electronics needs to know what the author provide in this book. As a result read this book as much as you can and revisit it when you need to fresh your knowledge.

This is a good book on Power Electronics, but could use many more examples. There are no problem solutions with the book either.

Great book with excellent questions and thorough analysis of basic analog power circuits and their uses.

I will work hard to sell this book soon. Understanding Power Electronics needs understanding of output waveforms of circuits. A sine-qua-non of waveform study is to be presented with diagrams that are clear and easy to understand. In this aspect this book is junk. 'A picture is a thousand words' so the saying goes - I rest my case. What do you say about someone who draws a voltage and a current waveform in one diagram? Or several voltage and current waveforms in one diagram? Vs, supply voltage, Vd, diode drop, Vo output voltage, everything in one diagram and they overlap to say the least and also all in the same color - black. Sloppy and Lazy just about sums it up. These idiots think that such concepts are so simple that one need not sweat it to present them in a more clear fashion. It is evident that these people dont teach for a living - they do research and ask their TAs to do the teaching. One more caveat, dont buy the book written by that other fellow Dr. B.K.Bose. He too I am sure is stuffed to the gills with knowledge and wisdom a la Dr.Mohan here but his ability to present concepts in a simple manner with clear pictures and diagrams also is very suspect. Another $100+ went down the drain for me. My search for a good Power Electronics book goes on. If anyone knows of a good book please help. How much does it take to explain a simple rectifier and inverter circuits? Ye Gods.

This book is great for Electrical Engineering students. I hardly ever find myself wondering what the authors meant because of the very simple and clear writing style used in this text. I think a bit of colour in pictures and circuits would help visual learners such as myself but I'm not complaining. It's black and white start to finish but the method of explanation makes up for this one quirk. All in all, it's a great book and I think I'll be keeping this book forever as reference and not sell it like most of my other engineering textbooks.

Shipping to Canada was also very fast (3days).

I use this book to study fow a Power Electronics course. It is a good book and lightweight. 5 stars. Bought it directly from Amazon. Good shipping conditions.