Practical Electronic Power Supplies

All electronic equipment work on electrical power. They all have a power supply that supplies needed currents at appropriate voltage levels to all the circuits inside the equipment. A good power supply not only supplies requisite amount of power, it also keeps the costly equipment fully protected in case of a component failure. The design of a good power supply therefore needs a careful consideration. This book describes power supply designs in a simple and easy to understand language with specific stress on practical aspects of such designs. Contents: introduction cells and batteries transformers rectifiers filters power supply protection unregulated supplies voltage stabilization electronic regulators IC regulators fixed voltage regulators three-terminal regulators adjustable output voltage regulators practical circuits inverters and converters overview of SMEs switch mode power supplies SMPS circuits SCR controlled power supplies television power supplies uninterruptible power supplies.