Improving the efficiency of a power-supply design can yield many rewards. In a server farm, better efficiency translates into smaller size, reduced cooling costs, and a lower electricity bill. In a ...

Designers often use a current shunt to measure low current being sourced out of their power supply since many of today’s power supplies do not offer adequate accuracy from their built-in measurement ...

Before a circuit designer decides on a particular power supply, he or she will first want to test it carefully. The data sheet for a switching regulator IC provides valuable information on how the ...

Need to do some real fine power consumption measurements? [Gero Müller] was in that exact situation, and wasn’t happy with the expensive off-the-shelf tools for doing the job. Thus, he built his own.

DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Advanced Energy (Nasdaq: AEIS) – a global leader in highly engineered, precision power conversion, measurement and control solutions – today expands its presence in the test ...

There is an increasing dependence on electric power in today’s electric world and developments in computerization and electrification have increased everyone’s dependence on electricity, and hence a ...

The VPXtra 1000CD-IQ supports communication, measurement and control. Behlman Electronics Inc. has added high intelligence features to its VPXtra 1000CD, dual output power supplies. The VPXtra ...

Santa Clara, Calif.—Measuring the performance of battery-powered units used to be easy: measure the current via a resistive or inductive shunt pick-off while monitoring the terminal voltage, end of ...

In the 1990s, experts calculated that without efforts to increase efficiencies and reduce “no-load” power consumption, external power supplies—the ones used to power everything from cell-phones to ...