A broad overview of devices, techniques, and circuits for the experimenter, technician, engineer, and others. Treatment is primarily descriptive with very little mathematics. An introductory book on the power control side of power electronics. Intended for the experimentator, technician, scientist, and engineer. Topics include power device characteristics and a multitude of applications ranging from headlight beam controllers to radio transmitters.
Treatment is descriptive with schematics and virtually no mathematics.
The author's objective is to make the book a practical guide to serve the interests and needs of a wide range of electronic practitioners. Care has been taken to explain principles of operation in descriptive, rather than mathematical language. The book is intended to benefit hobbyists, hams, technicians, service people, engineers, and physicists. This book purports to fill the need between books that are excessively mathematical and or too simplistic for optimum use. Different types of power supplies found in virtually every type of electronic product.