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Troubleshooting Switching Power Converters: A Hands-on Guide

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The topic is original, but is not extensive. Written in a very difficult English style, unappropiated for not English people like me.
The author has better books than this one.

I have both of Sanjaya's other books, and was a reviewer on the second one. Both are excellent, so I had to read this one. I was amazed! He has exceeded my expectations. You built it; it sort of works; the efficiency is a little off, the ripple is a little high, now what?
This book covers everything from which transformer winding to put on first, whether the feedback resistor should be next to the IC or the load and why, etc. I would be willing to wager that anyone that has been designing switchers for 20 years will learn at least three new things. If you have never designed a switcher and never will, you should still get this book for the structured approach, the detailed info on resistor and capacitor manufacture and parasitics, high frequency pc board layout, etc. In some respects, better than the Pease or Williams books. I wish there was a "Troubleshooting Op Amp Circuits", "Troubleshooting FPGA Circuits", etc. Perhaps people in other electronic specialty areas will use this as a template and give us more books of this quality.