switching power supply - with high-current regulator

switching power supply ... elektor may 1984 The design and construction of good-quality, regulated mains power supplies became virtually simplicity itself with the arrival of the now well-known voltage regulators series 78XX and 79XX. Good though these devices may be, they cannot cope with high output currents in combination with large differences in input and output voltage: such conditions are best met by switching regulators. Until not so long ago, high-current switching regulators could only be realized with discrete components. A recently introduced monolithic regulator, the L296 from SGS-ATES, combines a reasonably high efficiency with an output power of up to 160 W. switch. power supply... . . . with high- current regulator A voltage regulator produces a very stable output voltage from a fluctuating input voltage. The principle is fairly simple: the output voltage is fed back to the input and compared with the required value and any difference between real and re- quired va...