Is your transformer robust enough to handle a short circuit? Download this free white paper and learn the crucial questions to ask to avoid the high cost of transformer failure. Is your transformer ...

The low-power (milliwatt) flyback transformer used in a switched-mode power supply (SMPS) needs to be designed with a gap in the magnetic path for maximum power delivery over temperature. Transformers ...

When developing TOPSwitch flyback power supplies, transformer design is usually the biggest stumbling block. Flyback transformers are not designed or used like normal transformers. Energy is stored in ...

A new and exclusive set from Hasbro has arrived as they return to the Transformers universe with not one but three deluxe-scale versions of Optimus Prime. However, each of these figures represents a ...

One of the most dangerous locations in a power distribution system with regard to incident energy is that first panelboard on the secondary of a transformer. With some thought in your design — even if ...

Toroidal transformers are electrical components constructed using a wire-wound, ring-shaped metal core. Ring-shaped circular transformers are known as toroidal because their basic construction ...

For the PDF version of this article, click here. Let's return to the question, “Why Have an Air Gap?” initially posed in the Power Design article in the December 2002 issue of Power Electronics ...