For one-off projects or prototyping, it’s not too hard to find a wall wart or power supply to send a few joules of energy from the wall outlet to your circuit. Most of these power supplies use a ...

Buying a power supply can seem like a minefield of jargon and specs. What wattage do you need? What efficiency rating is best ...

So you’re building a gaming PC for the first time—or maybe you’re building a certain kind of gaming PC for the first time—and you want to be sure you get the right power supply for it. Problem is, ...

The PC power supply has been a standard of the junk box for the last couple of decades, and will probably continue to be for the foreseeable future. A product that is often built to a very high ...

Most medium to high power AC-DC power supplies and some DC-DC converters include “Remote Sense” connection points (+ and – Sense) that are used to tightly regulate the supply’s output voltage at the ...

In helping users plug in correctly and monitoring for spikes, Cooler Master claims it can prevent cable damage caused by overheating. Belkin has received one report of a fire-related incident in the ...

There are a variety of reasons why a system designer may want to consider paralleling of DC power supplies. Some of these are related to the bill of materials and logistics issues, others are focused ...

In a previous article, I wrote about generating negative voltages via a standard unipolar dc power supply outfitted with polarity-reversal relays (see “Turn Positive Voltages Negative With Relays”).

You can check the power supply on your PC by removing the side panel of its case. If you bought a prebuilt PC, you can also likely check the power supply in the computer's manual or by contacting the ...

In the past couple of years, it has become very evident that CPUs and GPUs have become increasingly power-hungry. We doubt this will change in the near future, so those who prefer super-powerful ...