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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...
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...
Surge Testing - An Overview
One of the core immunity tests that electrical & electronic equipment is subjected to is input surge testing. The test m...
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...
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...
Green mode fly-back converters
Many power supply products are marketed under the “Green Power” label meaning that they are designed to maximise efficie...
AC Input Current & Harmonics
As a result of the peak rectification techniques used in power supplies, harmonic currents are generated. To limit these...
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...
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...
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.
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...
Reliability Terminology - Power Supplies
Failure Rate λ Failure rate is defined as the percentage of units failing per unit time. This varies throughout the...