When you hear about a switching power supply, you think of a system that uses an inductor and a switch to redistribute energy from the input to the output. But the original switching power supply ...

The TL494 is a switched-mode power supply controller designed to work in a variety of configurations ... so what can you do with an intact one? A rather nicely built bench PSU project we covered ...

A power supply for electronic devices. Also called an "AC adapter" or "charger," power adapters plug into a wall outlet and convert AC to a single DC voltage. Computers use multiple DC voltages ...