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Medical power supplies: Trends, challenges & design approaches

Medical electronic equipment is getting smaller. Techniques for managing design trade-offs.

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Updates to legislation drive external power supplies’ efficiency

As concern for carbon emissions grows, most countries have introduced legislation to regulate the efficiency of external power supplies (EPS), so that as little as possible of our natural resource is wasted.

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Selecting power supplies for peak load applications

Specifying an AC-DC power supply for systems with peak load requirements that are higher than the normal power requirements for short periods can result in larger, higher power and higher cost product selection

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Electrolytic capacitor lifetime in power supplies

The service life of electrolytic capacitors is an increasingly key design parameter in power supplies.

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Energy efficiency for external power supplies (EPS)

Controlling the power consumed by external power supplies is important for continuity of the energy supply and reduction of environmental impacts.

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