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Ray Ridley
09-13-2013 04:17 AM

How Much Experience Do You Have in Power Supply Design?

Please let me know your experience level. This will help target the discussions properly.

If you are new to power design, don't be shy about it - we all had to start at the beginning.

I remember my first day on the job in 1981. They handed a schematic to me and told me that's what I would be working on. I spent two days looking at it, trying to piece together the capacitors, diodes, magnetics and switches that made up a switching power supply. At the end of that, I went to my manager and asked for help. He told me it wasn't even a power supply at all, it was a power distribution unit with relays and timers. It was a humbling experience.

What was worse is that was in the days when the engineers drew the schematics in a logical way so that they actually made good sense, though obviously not to me in this case.