This article will show you a simple and inexpensive way to make your own portable power supply for microcontroller experiments and the like by hacking a mobile phone power bank. The proposed power ...

As part of a power electronics design project involving a 3.6-V dc-dc converter, it became necessary to test and accurately characterize the planar transformer shown in Fig. 1. Transformer operating ...

This article appeared in Evaluation Engineering and has been published here with permission. The gamut of electronic and electrical products from low-power mobile handsets and IoT devices to electric ...

Testing DC supplies can be done in many ways, from connecting an actual load like a motor, to using a dummy load in the manner of a big resistor. [Jasper Sikken] is opening up his smart tester for ...