Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!bu.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!tukki.jyu.fi!jyu.fi!otto From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Switched power supplies, how do they actually work ? Message-ID: Date: 14 Oct 90 23:48:00 GMT Sender: news@tukki.jyu.fi (News articles) Organization: Turing Police, Criminal AI section Lines: 13 I recently got into a conversation with an electronics old-timer (he was on the Apollo project etc). I had just helped his wife to select a PC/AT clone, and we got to talking about power supplies and stuff. Suddenly I find out that I don't know how a switching power supply works. Could someone with the necessary knowledge give me the baby-talk -type explanation so that I won't get stuck in such an embarassing way the next time ;-) ? Be gentle, I'm only a computer hacker with limited (and long-past) electronics experience. Post only if you have iron-clad knowledge of this. No "I thinks", please. -- /* * * Otto J. Makela * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ /* Phone: +358 41 613 847, BBS: +358 41 211 562 (CCITT, Bell 24/12/300) */ /* Mail: Kauppakatu 1 B 18, SF-40100 Jyvaskyla, Finland, EUROPE */ /* * * Computers Rule 01001111 01001011 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */