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Electronics => Beginners => Topic started by: Jane on November 14, 2015, 04:27:36 pm

Title: Pulse Power Supply = Switching Power Supply ??
Post by: Jane on November 14, 2015, 04:27:36 pm

Is Pulse Power Supply only a different word connection for  Switching Power Supply ?
Or is it a different design?

Title: Re: Pulse Power Supply = Switching Power Supply ??
Post by: dmills on November 14, 2015, 07:20:26 pm

Usually a pulse power supply implies some sort of capacitor discharge thru a fast, high current switch and some sort of pulse forming network, think pulsed lasers, old school pulsed radar, that sort of thing.
The charging supply might be a switcher, but that is not required.

Pulse supplies are usually rated in joules per pulse, maximum PRF and pulse current rather then watts.

Regards, Dan.

Title: Re: Pulse Power Supply = Switching Power Supply ??
Post by: dom0 on November 14, 2015, 09:23:19 pm

Basically a high power pulse generator, just not with all the flexibility of a bench pulse gen.