On Sep 16, 8:15*pm, Grumpy The Mule wrote:
Howdy,

It's a tough choice, most of the books in the subject have at
least a couple of strong points or useful tricks.

If I could have only one book and it had to cover all aspects of
SMPS design I'd chose "Switching Power Supply Design" by Abraham
L. Pressman. *

There are many individual books devoted to topology convolution,
wound magnetics design, control systems engineering and the care and
feeding of semiconductor switches. *So no one book covers evey
aspect thoughoughly but Abe's book is pretty good. *

He also wrote "Switching And Linear Power Supply Design, power
Converter Design", which was his first book. *Worth having for
sometimes you might need a big linear supply.

"Switchmode Power Supply Handbook" by Keith Billings contains many
practical tips.

For magetics "Transformer And Inductor Design Handbook" by Colonel Wm.
T. McLyman is good. *Another good book is Magnetics Engineering
Fundamentals and Computer Aided Design" by Fred M. Lillenstein.

"Transformers for Electronic Circuits" by Nathan Grossner is good
too, especially for heavy metal. *There is a copy of it online
at some tube audio site but I can't find the link off hand.

Also check the free software and app notes at Magnetics Inc.
And at Micrometals Inc. too. *

Some decent vendors of needed odds and ends are Pleo, lodestone
pacific, Robison Ind.,Dexter, MH&W. CWS *Coil Winding Services
is worth checking out too.

For built transformers you'll mostly find low voltage and
telecom stuff off the shelf. *Can't recall seeing any high
power (more than a couple of hundred watts) high voltage
transformers off the shelf. *Even low power HV stuff is rare
unless you count the measly few hundreds of volts for EL
and neon lighting.

I really think this is a roll your own kind of affair. Furukawa
TEX-E triple insulated wire might be handy without a segmented
secondary bobbin.

I hope you find some of this useful. *There are a LOT of books on
these subjects. *Enough to cause my house to sag under the weight.



I dont suppose there is an SMPS pwer supply design book for dummies
ou t there somwhere.
Seriously what would be a good book for transformer design. I
downloaded the info ferroxcube had. I was hoping they had someready
made transformers. I know they have made some for the military/gov,
but I didnt see anything off the shelf available except their cores.

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My big problem at the moment is designinging a transformer. after much
reading in the last couple of days I am begining to think it is not
the big deal I thought it was. Since I am not trying to build 50k
units I dont have to use the cheapest thing I can get by with and can
overdesign a bit. I can see that just a few cores may take care of all
of my needs. Oh well its back to work so it will be a few days before
i get to piddle with this anymore. One of my jobs this week is to go
through all the old UPSs we have in the store room and find out which
ones are good and chunk the rest.

Jimmie