Over the recent weeks here at Hackaday, we’ve been taking a look at the humble transistor. In a series whose impetus came from a friend musing upon his students arriving with highly developed ...
Find a downloadable version of this story in pdf format at the end of the story. TYPICAL HIGH-SIDE, n-channel, hot-swap “soft-switch” systems use a charge pump to drive the gate of an external MOSFET ...
Power supplies with N+1 redundancy require the use of an ORing diode or FET to isolate the main supply from the output bus in case of failure. Although ORing diodes are easy to use, the power loss ...