Building a spot welding machine at home, it does not really need those complex SMPS circuits or costly stuff, nope. Instead a much simpler way is there, which people use, and it works quite well. We can use a microwave oven transformer, that MOT, and then add a small timing circuit with it, so now […]
SMPS and Converters
High Voltage, High Current Buck Converter Circuit using Isolated Gate Driver
This is a high voltage 310V to 60V buck converter, so we have that big 310V DC coming in which we usually get after rectifying 220V AC mains. So now that high DC is there and we want to push it down to something like 60V or lower for battery charging or similar work. Audio/Video […]
Build this 85V–265V AC to 12V 5A SMPS Design Using UC3843 (With Calculations)
This thing is a full SMPS design using UC3843, which takes wide AC input from 85V AC to 265V AC, then gives out 12V DC at 5A, so now it is like a universal input supply, which can be used for 110V AC supplies and also for 220V AC input supplies… Input Protection Stage At […]
XL6009 DC-DC Converter IC: Pinout, Working, Circuit Diagram, and Applications
XL6009 is a DC-DC switching regulator IC, and we use it where lower voltage DC has to be lifted higher, or sometimes changed other ways, boost, buck-boost, flyback, even inverting, all that is possible depending how outside parts are connected. Why XL6009 is More Efficient Than Linear Regulators It is not like old regulator types […]
220V AC to 12V DC Flyback SMPS Circuit using IC 555 (7555)
This practical flyback SMPS circuit uses ICM7555 as the main oscillator, and yep the whole idea is to take 220V AC mains directly then convert it into isolated low voltage DC through a ferrite transformer.. Unlike many PWM controller designs, here we have very few parts but still it gives mains isolation, voltage feedback, current […]
How to Design Customized 220V SMPS Circuits
We many times think that how we can make a SMPS circuit, and we feel that this is very complex. But that is not so because we can do this by following simple manual calculations step by step. We only need to know that SMPS design is always starting from the transformer. We cannot make […]