The Power Supply Handbook - 1979 (Ocean View, CA)

The Power Supply Handbook - 1979

Local pick-up preferred but will ship at the buyer s expenseKingston Books 12 IMG_1374Condition excellentBy the Editor s of 73 Magazine Publisher Tab Books Schematics Block Diagrams Oscilloscope Waveforms Formulas Graphs Sample Circuits Foreword All too often the power supply takes a backseat to other electronic circuits. It is a simple mater to say ..and build a power supply to supply the required voltage and current. But when actually building the power supply it isn t as easy as you might imagine. Without some sort of guidance unless you re an electronic engineer with a warehouse of parts at your disposal. Well the guidance is here in these 420 pages of The Handbook of Power Supplies. This is a collection of every conceivable type of power supply for the electronics hobbyist HAM (Amateur Radio Operator) experimenter engineer technician CBer and do-it yourselfer. Be it a lab supply inverter or special purpose type you can build it or even possibly design it from scratch with the information compiled here. With the onset of home computers in kit form and the like this book takes on even more significance. These mini brains require power supplies of special caliber to protect the microprocessors and other logic circuits from damage. Many of these aspects of power supply selection are covered in Chapter 1. Regulated low-voltage power supplies are by far the most often used in today s solid state circuitry. Chapter 2 covers a multitude of this type of supply. You ll find regulated supplies with rated outputs from 0.35 on up to 50 volts in this chapter. There s going to be a case when you find a power supply that fits your requirements in every way except one minor detail and that is the purpose of Chapter 3. This chapter is a collection of mostly add-on gadgets that can be attached to an existing power supply a voltage splitter for example. Although it seems that vacuum tubes have almost disappeared there s still a lot of equipment floating around that rely on them. And these pieces of equipment also require power supplies but they need higher voltages than our common regulated low-voltage supplies of Chapter 2 deliver. Chapter 4 covers a few of these high-voltage supplies chiefly for transmitters and the like. One of these babies delivers 3000V Chapters 5 6 and 7 cover inverters AC-to-DC converters and DC-to-DC converters respectively. Battery chargers another type of power supply are the subject of Chapter 8 including special types for silver-zinc and gelled cells. Sensing Circuits both voltage and current are covered in Chapter 9. Mobile power and accessories are handled in Chapter 10. A final chapter deals with special purpose AC supplies. Whatever the application you will have no trouble finding or designing a power supply with the wealth of knowhow contained on the following pages. Contents by Chapter 1. Power Supply Facts 2. Regulated Low-Voltage Power Supplies 3. Power Supply Miscellanea 4. High-Voltage Power Supplies 5. DC-to-AC Inverters 6. AC-to-DC Converters 7. DC-to-DC Converters 8. Battery Chargers 9. Sensing Circuits 10. Automotive Accessories 11. Special Purpose AC Supplies Appendix Electronic Symbols Index Hardcover 420 pages ISBN 0-8306-9806-x