Fan and force-air cooling in power systems is noisy, and fans introduce potential reliability problems. To address the requirement for noiseless, high-reliability AC-DC converters that we see from our customers who are designing for demanding applications such as military, industrial and telecommunications, Vicor has introduced the high-efficiency Westcor™ MicroPAC™ power factor corrected AC-DC power system.
In our previous post, an interview with Robert Gendron, VP, Strategic Marketing and Business Development for Picor, we asked, What is a Buck Regulator? In this second in the series, we look at how to choose the product that is right for your design.
Over the past few months, I have published a few articles discussing the advantages of our soft turn on ZVS Buck topology when it is applied to a wide ranging (8V-36V) input voltage combined with large step down ratios of as much as 36:1.
Responding to its customers, Vicor announces the addition of the PI34xx series to its Picor Cool-Power ZVS Buck Regulator family. Fittingly, this buck regulator will be showcased at Embedded World in Nuremberg, Germany (Tues 26 – Thurs 28 February).
We’ll be at the Applied Power Electronics Conference, the premier Power Electronics Conference in the USA, March 18 – 21, at Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California. We hope you will be there too, networking with colleagues and checking out what’s new and exciting in power electronics.
I’ve spent many years working with companies to help them architect power distribution in their designs. The most common approach, where engineers segment large power systems, designing each section in isolation (pardon the pun!), has been used for years. But is this the best way?
