What’s All This Power-Supply Design Stuff, Anyway? (.PDF Download)

Nov. 3, 2016

Bob Pease knew that a common engineer’s foible was to try and design our own test equipment rather than just buying it. Jim Williams was especially subject to this shortcoming since he started out as a lab equipment technician at MIT. To Williams, it was a point of pride to design and build your own test gear. There are two major drawbacks to this attitude:  if you’re designing the test equipment, you’re not testing your designs; and you’re making lab setups that are unrepeatable by others...

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