Chris PetrilliSharing this because I just shared with a friend. This is an application note from Microchip from 2007!! that I found to be a great explanation of a lot of the switch mode power supply (SMPS) topologies that you run into. As a hobbyist, mostly you're probably dealing with buck, boost, and buck-boost. But it digs into magnetics, selection process, etc.
mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)@petrillic oh, we missed this one!
@atax1a there's another follow-up from 2009 that digs even deeper.
@petrillic printing off a copy of each (doublesided!)
@atax1a it's amazing how hard it is to find really good explanations. For me, all the waveform diagrams helped enormously. It's a great expansion on the basics that are introduced in The Art of Electronics §9.6.
@atax1a had to go look, §7.11 in the ARRL Handbook (2023 edition, 100th) also has a decent overview.
The internet? Not so much.
@petrillic TAoE never really did it for us. ARRL Handbook worked better but ours is from 1987 so i don't think it has much on switching power supplies
@atax1a the anniversary edition (2023) was a pretty big revision if I recall. Added a lot of more advanced stuff, including space and more advanced DSP/etc. It replaced one I had from around 1990. Not that that one was "wrong" mostly, it just was missing how much the industry and best-practices has been revolutionized by the semiconductor advancements.
@petrillic we got ours from 1987 specifically because it focused on through-hole parts and didn't quite phase out all the vacuum-tube stuff. maybe we'll get the 2023 one as a supplement.
@atax1a you can never have too many! I still have some old vacuum tube works. You might find these fun: https://w140.com/tekwiki/wiki/Concepts_Series
Lots of Tek refernce books from the late 1960s and early 1970s.
And of course: http://www.tubebooks.org/technical_books_online.htm
@atax1a like, how about a book on vacuum tubes from 1920. Surprisingly readable, even if the language changed a lot.