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What to expect on a PMBus Compliant Power supply?

The Power Management Bus (PMBus) is an open standard power-management protocol. This flexible and highly versatile stand...

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Overcoming Patient Leakage Current Issues

XP Power’s Dante De Guzman explains patient leakage current for medical power supplies and describes several ways of red...

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Surge Testing - An Overview

One of the core immunity tests that electrical & electronic equipment is subjected to is input surge testing. The test m...

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Analog vs Digital – the Power struggle continues!

If you are a power supply design engineer or an EE or ASE that selects power solutions for your end system, then there i...

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Modular and Configurable Solutions for Vetronics Applications meet MIL-STD-461G

Modular and Configurable Solutions for Vetronics Applications meet MIL-STD-461G This blog discusses XP Power's modula...

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Green mode fly-back converters

Many power supply products are marketed under the “Green Power” label meaning that they are designed to maximise efficie...

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AC Input Current & Harmonics

As a result of the peak rectification techniques used in power supplies, harmonic currents are generated. To limit these...

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Power supply applications with output voltages exceeding 60VDC

Most commercially available power supplies have output voltages ranging from 3V3 to 54VDC. However, there are many end...

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Low profile full brick baseplate cooled AC-DC power supplies require no external components

XP Power’s ASB110 series provides a complete baseplate-cooled AC-DC power supply module that requires no external compon...

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Different methods of measuring component temperatures

The two main ways of measuring temperatures are by thermocouple or by optical methods, whether IR camera or thermometer.

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Understanding Isolation Ratings in High Voltage Power Supplies

“My 10 kV power supply has an isolation rating of only 3500V, why is that?” This is a common initial reaction when revi...

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Reliability Terminology - Power Supplies

Failure Rate λ Failure rate is defined as the percentage of units failing per unit time. This varies throughout the...

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