{"id":20960,"date":"2018-11-05T14:37:55","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T14:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/?p=20960"},"modified":"2019-06-11T11:34:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T11:34:55","slug":"power-supplies-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/blog\/publications\/books-extra\/2018\/11\/05\/power-supplies-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Power Supplies Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rsgbshop.org\/acatalog\/Online_Catalogue_Technical_6.html#a1666\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8232\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2018\/11\/PS_exp.jpg\" alt=\"Power Supplies Explained\" width=\"140\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><strong>By Paul Lee, G3ZKO<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A power supply is something that is often overlooked by radio amateurs, as for many it is simply the box, that at the flick of a switch, provides stable DC voltage. A modern power supply is though much more, combining theory that dates back to the nineteenth century incorporating the latest techniques in digital control, with a wealth of electronics practice in between. Power Supplies Explained sets out to do exactly this &#8211; explain in understandable terms what that little box is doing, right through to designing your own bespoke power supply.<\/p>\n<p>Click cover picture to buy this online.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Corrections and updates<\/h3>\n<p>We are currently aware of the following update to this book:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chapter 13: Introduction to high voltage supplies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Page 231 &#8211; Figure 13.8.\u00a0 Please replace this with the corrected figure below<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-22521 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/files\/2018\/11\/Figure-13_8_corrected.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"644\" height=\"429\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Additional information<\/h3>\n<p>The author of this book has provided additional material which can be found on his own website which can be reached by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.g3zko.com\/page7.html\">clicking here<\/a>.\u00a0 The RSGB does accept any responsibility for the material on this external site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Lee, G3ZKO A power supply is something that is often overlooked by radio amateurs, as for many it is simply the box, that at the flick of a switch, provides stable DC voltage. A modern power supply is though much more, combining theory that dates back to the nineteenth century incorporating the latest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-extra"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}