Practical Design of Power Supplies [Hardcover]

Ron Lenk (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1998 | ISBN-10: 0780334582 | ISBN-13: 978-0780334588

PRACTICAL DESIGN OF POWER SUPPLIES details key techniques and advice for engineers and technicians who want to design and build power supplies that work the first time they are turned on. Leading authority Ron Lenk presents current, experience-based information that can save hours of research and design time. Brimming with handy "Practical Notes" and real-world examples, PRACTICAL DESIGN OF POWER SUPPLIES is an excellent how-to reference to keep by your side throughout the design, lab, and production phases. The topics covered will be immediately useful in everyday circuits and systems work: common terms and instrumentation, how to design successful magnetics, how to compensate the feedback loop to get stable operation, practical EMI, Topology selection, and worst case analysis. PRACTICAL DESIGN OF POWER SUPPLIES will be especially useful to designers who need to understand and implement the concepts behind loop compensation and magnetics design.

Editorial Reviews

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"…I encourage those students or designers who would like to get an idea about designing power supplies to read the book." (IEEE Circuits & Devices Magazine, September/October 2006)

"Engineers, technicians, and power supply designers will find this an invaluable book to quickly learn and apply the knowledge...to designing and building the right power supplies for an application." (IEEE Electrical Insulation Magazine, July/August 2006) --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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Practical Design of Power Supplies

"In a rare and very welcome departure from the power industry's standard technical treatise, Ron Lenk's book . . . offers a clear, pragmatic view of the practical real-world aspects governing power supply design . . . . Engineers at all levels . . . can expect to gain an enlightened perspective normally gained only after years of design experience."
—Frank Wahl, Managing Editor, PCIM Magazine

"This is a real hands-on reference in which Ron has done an outstanding job of combining just enough theory for understanding, together with several lifetimes' worth of experience. I am confident that it is destined to become dog-eared and worn on the top of every power supply designer's desk."
—Bob Mammano, Vice President Advanced Technology, Unitrode

Practical Design of Power Supplies details key techniques and offers advice to engineers and technicians who want to design and build power supplies that work the first time they are turned on. Leading authority Ron Lenk presents current, experiment-based information that can save hours of research and design time.

Containing many handy "Practice Notes" and real-world examples, Practical Design of Power Supplies is an excellent how-to reference to keep by your side throughout the design, lab, and production phases. The topics covered will be immediately useful in everyday circuits and systems work:

• Common terms and instrumentation
• How to design successful magnetics
• How to compensate the feedback loop to obtain stable operation
• Practical EMI
• Topology selection
• Worst-case analysis

Practical Design of Power Supplies will be especially useful to designers who need to understand and implement the concepts behind loop compensation and magnetics design. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 267 pages
• Publisher: Ieee (January 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0780334582
• ISBN-13: 978-0780334588
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 7.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,396,493 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding!, September 27, 2001

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Ken Coffman (Mount Vernon, WA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Practical Design of Power Supplies (Hardcover)

This is an excellent book that leads you through switched-mode power supply design in plain English with a practical and straight-forward approach. Highlights for me include the conversation on trade-offs for topologies, the end-to-end design examples, and the detailed treatment of magnetics design and implementation. I have many power supply books (including a very good one by Ralph Tartar), but this is my favorite. To put it simply, if you have any responsibility for designing or understanding power supplies, you need a copy of this book on your bookshelf.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical, practical, practical.............., September 14, 2001

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D. McCartan "DMC" (Ireland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Practical Design of Power Supplies (Hardcover)

This is far and away the most practical, comprehensive and useful reference on power supplies I have ever read. It covers it all from component level through EMI control in a very straight forward manner. EXCELLENT!

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best! Very, very practical !!!, February 20, 2004

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Adam J. (the Polak) (Cedar Knolls, NJ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Practical Design of Power Supplies (Hardcover)

Best book about practical design of electronics (power supplies).
There is no "PHD BSing", all formulas are simple and easy to use.
Many, many advices and shortcuts.
If you are EE (and you know what a resistor looks like), but never designed power supplies - you can start your first design after reading this book.
So, spend $70 and buy this book. If you have no money (or you rather buy beer than book), ask your boss to buy it (book) for you...