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Switchmode Power Supply Handbook

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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.

I recently purchased both this book, and Switching Power Supply Design by Abraham I. Pressman. I had cursory knowledge of SMPS from datasheets and appnotes from National Semiconductors and IRF.

Overall, i like the other book better. The chapter layouts speak to the intended purpose of the books. In this book, the progression is from the start of an off-line power supply to then end. instead of starting with what the switching power supply is, and such, this book starts with input circuitry and startup methods. some suitable off-line topolgies are detailed. It is only later in the book that the basic switching power supplies, like the buck converter are detailed. It makes sense -- these supplies are billed for regulation in the book.

I found some of this book annoying. for instance, the author often refers to bifilar windings. there is no glossary entry for this. the index refers to multiple pages where "bifilar" is mentioned, but it is never defined. Similarly, "flyback" is not defined.

if you want to learn power supplies, i reccomend the book by Abraham I. Pressman over this one.

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.

I bought this book as a companion to Pressman's "Switching Power Supply Design". I'm glad I did. Anything not covered or understood in the one book was well covered in the other.

This book does a good job of defining terms, and covers circuit protection very well. While the other book is sufficient for designing the internal power supply circuits. This book is a must for interfacing the internal circuits to the outside world.

As well as circuit protection (fuse technology), it covers shielding, soft-start, overvoltage, snubbers, cross conduction, and heat sinks.

A very useful reference to the power supply designer.

Thanks Mr. Billings

I just got my diploma in EE and i never learned in school about power electronics and switching-mode power supply design, but i got job in this field. I bought 4 books: "Switching Power Supply Design, 3rd Ed.", "Switch-Mode Power Supplies Spice Simulations and Practical Designs", "Switching Power Supplies A to Z", and "Switchmode Power Supply Handbook 3/E". First and Third book I already read from A to Z. Second I already read half through. Now I'm reading "Switchmode Power Supply Handbook 3/E" which is the best for beginners, like me because it goes very dip into low side of mead range (to 1kW) direct off-line switchmode power supply design and it creates very good foundation for designing even high power SMPS. To start designing high power direct off-line SMPS ( up to 100kW or even more) you need to mastered first this book than you can read "Switching Power Supply Design, 3rd Ed.". This is my advice for such people like me!!!

I bought this book as a complement to Abraham I. Pressman's Switching Power Supply Design.

These two books are very similar, but do not overlap all that much. I am glad to have them both.

This book can be used as a textbook or as a reference. It is so well organised you can find what you need very fast through the table of contents. Concepts are supported by schematics and graphs.

I am using this book to learn analog design and to learn to build my own switching power supplies.

Brief explaination about all SMPS concepts.The concepts are explained in a easy to understand manner.Good as a handbook.

I always was thinking in buy or not this book becasue of some other customer opinions and the price, so i took the risk and bought it.
Great book, a lot of information regrading tips and behavior of inductor, transformer, softstart, step-down and flyback, it has many pages about everything abouth SMPS and Linear Supply.
If you want a book for reference on SMPS, buy this one, it has many examples, calculations, etc, and is a pleasure read this book.

Saludos...

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.

Nice book, but missing some Examples, always real application circuits HELPS a lot into this field.
there should be a 500W Half bridge circuit to build your self, its rich of information's also.
But real application is what every one needs.
I recommend this book