Electronic Design

Active Clamp Resets Transformer in Converters

For a PDF version of this article, click here. Power converters based on the forward topology offer high efficiency and good power-handling capability in applications up to several hundred watts. The ...
Electronic Design

Active Clamp Transformer Reset: High or Low Side?

The active clamp transformer reset technique offers many well-documented advantages over traditional single-ended reset techniques, including lower voltage stress on the main MOSFET, the ability to ...
EDN

Synchronous forward-converter chipset provides active clamp, deters transformer saturation

Milpitas, CA–DC/DC converters which use a transformer for isolation—as many of them do—have a potential problem: under large, sudden changes in output load or input voltage, the loop closure may not ...
Electronics Weekly

Building an isolated power supply the simple way

Prefabricated isolated DC/DC converters and modules offer a simple but relatively expensive solution to efficiently convert distribution bus voltages to isolated low voltages. However, off-the-shelf ...
Machine Design

Solid-State ac Power Sources for Transformer Testing

Solid-state ac supplies replace motor-generator and tap-changing transformers to offer the same tests at the push of a button • Solid-state ac-power sources combine the variable-frequency and ...