Getting Your Priorities Straight: Managing Overshoots (.PDF Download)

June 13, 2016

Most laboratory dc supplies operate as constant-voltage/constant-current (CV/CC) supplies. Recall that a power supply is a feedback system that achieves regulation of a particular parameter. In constant voltage (CV), the power supply’s feedback control loop regulates voltage. In constant current (CC), the power supply’s feedback control loop regulates current...

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