Electronic Design

Scaling Design Methods To Improve Transformers

For the PDF version of this article, click here. The size, performance and cost of a power electronic system are closely linked to the like parameters of the magnetic components. Since custom power ...
Electronic Design

Designing Flyback Transformer for Discontinuous Mode

For the PDF version of this article, click here. Let's return to the question, “Why Have an Air Gap?” initially posed in the Power Design article in the December 2002 issue of Power Electronics ...
EDN

Flyback Transformer Design

When developing TOPSwitch flyback power supplies, transformer design is usually the biggest stumbling block. Flyback transformers are not designed or used like normal transformers. Energy is stored in ...
Nature

Transformers: a Treatise on the Theory, Construction, Design, and Uses of Transformers, Autotransformers, and Choking Coils

THIS very complete treatise on the alternate current or static transformer will no doubt be found of considerable value in the drawing- office of practical transformer builders, and also by teachers ...
EDN

Current-sense transformer circuit design for average current-mode control

Here are the steps required to select the transformer and how to design the circuit needed to meet the end use in a manner that prevents transformer saturation Average current-mode control (CMC) ...