Each turbine in a wind farm is equipped with a step-up transformer, which boosts (steps up) turbine generator output voltage from a few hundred volts to the collector system’s medium voltage ...

For the PDF version of this article, click here. The size, performance and cost of a power electronic system are closely linked to the like parameters of the magnetic components. Since custom power ...

Thousands of ready-made off-the-shelf transformers out in the market are available to be designed into electronic or electrical circuits. However, when the right part just can’t be found, you may want ...

Magnetic components, particularly transformers operating at high frequencies and voltages, are intrinsically influenced by parasitic capacitance. This unintended capacitance between conductive ...

Significant cost reductions and performance enhancements in planar magnetics have been introduced in recent years. These include replacing costly multilayer PCBs with lower-resistance flat coil ...

Power-transformer designs minimize weight and cost based on three assumptions: (1) the power source is a sine wave, (2) the frequency is fixed, and (3) the voltage will not exceed a specified maximum.