Switching Power Supplies A - Z

Focusing on Some Real-world Issues

Reliability Is No Flash in the Pan

(September 2004)

Don’t be so quick to pop the champagne when your new power supply prototype seems to work, Sanjaya wags

a finger. Lest you want a lawsuit, ensuring reliability requires a disciplined effort around a second curr ent limit.

It’s a long lonely trudge back to the drawing board, he says.

That was some night of celebration! Now past the ebbing wave of our once-blissful

incognizance, we are become increasingly aware that the fireworks display back there did

not herald the onset of any new-found freedom – rather a lonely trudge back to the drawing

board in the very near future, ...