Electronic Design

Designing Flyback Transformer for Discontinuous Mode

For the PDF version of this article, click here. Let's return to the question, “Why Have an Air Gap?” initially posed in the Power Design article in the December 2002 issue of Power Electronics ...
EDN

Flyback Transformer Design

When developing TOPSwitch flyback power supplies, transformer design is usually the biggest stumbling block. Flyback transformers are not designed or used like normal transformers. Energy is stored in ...
Electronic Design

Half-Bridge Flyback Converters Outperform Conventional Types

Fig. 1: A conventional flyback topology experiences significant switching losses. Mladen Ivankovic is a Sr. Staff Application Engineer at Infineon A classic flyback converter stores energy as a ...
EDN

Power Integrations’ high frequency, two-switch forward and flyback controller

Editor’s note: This single chip solution for two-switch forward main and flyback standby is highly integrated with control, gate drivers and three power MOSFETs. The IC has level shift technology ...
Hackaday

flyback transformer

[Matt] works at a neon sign power supply company. When a vendor error left him with quite a few defective high voltage transformers, he couldn’t bring himself to ...
Hackaday

flyback transformer

A common part used to create a high voltage is a CRT flyback transformer, having been a ubiquitous junk pile component. So many attempts to use them rely on brute force, with power transistors in ...