POWER Magazine

Selecting the Right Three-Phase Transformer Configuration: A Decision Guide for Power Distribution Systems

In power distribution systems, three-phase transformer configuration directly impacts system reliability and load management.
T&D

Largest Shell Transformer Made in the U.S. Completed and Shipped

Efacec Power Transformers Inc. has successfully shipped the largest shell transformer made in the U.S. in more than 20 years. The electrical transformer has the unique feature that it can be delivered ...
EDN

Driver Core with Planar Transformers

The 1SC2060P is the latest, highest power member of CONCEPT’s driver core family. The high-performance SCALE-2 driver core targets high-power single-channel IGBT and MOSFET applications such as ...
T&D

GE Research Powers Up World’s First Large Flexible Transformer

In what represents a major step toward modernizing the foundation of the U.S. grid, GE Research and Prolec GE have teamed with Cooperative Energy to develop and install the world’s first flexible ...
Electronic Design

Choosing Core for Flyback Transformer and Choke Designs

Soft magnetic materials (materials that can easily be magnetized) come in many forms. For switchmode power supply flyback transformers and chokes, we would consider gapped ferrites, Iron powder, ...
Electronic Design

Thermal Management of Planar Magnetics

Planar transformers and inductors for high-frequency converters differ radically from conventional magnetics in that they do not use magnet wire. Instead, windings are copper-foil lead frames or flat ...