Fundamentals of Power Electronics (Second Edition),   ISBN:9780792372707

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I was very pleased with this book....it covers basic converter analysis, both in steady-state and discontinuous mode. Filters, transforms, inductances, and idealized / realistic switches are reviewed in detail.

I have read many books that try to deal with converter or inverter analysis, and all have fallen short compared to this book. The authors keep the subject very abstract, and material is not presented from a math-heavy perspective (which I think makes reading very difficult). However, the material presented in this book IS in-depth and comprehensive.

Highly recommended!

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This is much less of a technology survey book than a serious, detailed engineering text. We jump right into transient analysis of switching converters, differential equations, frequency response plots, gain curves and other elements of hard-core engineering. If you want to know what components to buy off the shelf, this is not the book for you. If, as was my case, you are thinking of trying to design some power electronics, this is definitely the book for you. In the end, I hired one of the top power electronics people in the country. Largely thanks to having read this book I was able to understand what he was doing, and provide useful input to the design trade-offs we were making.

I am a little hesitant to give this book 5 stars because it targets a very narrow audience, but I feel it does a great job of meeting the needs of that audience, so 5 stars it is. I think the author of the 1-star review does a good job of explaining who this book *isnt* for. I am happy to offset him.

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This is the best book on Power Electronics . The other good book is by Ned Mohan on Power Electronics . These are the 2 best books in the market for Power Electronics . I bought a lot of books on Power Electronics such as the one by Philip Krein , one by Kassakien , one by Rashid , one by Bose and this is my advice --- ONLY BUY THE ABOVE 2 BOOKS and SAVE YOUR MONEY . The concepts in this great book on Power Electronics are explained better than the one by Ned Mohan but I think the Ned Mohan book covers more concepts . If you are a student taking Power Electronics course and need a solid textbook , this is a bargain . Highly recommended -- 5 stars .

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I should state that I believe this text to be the "Gray and Meyer" of Switched-mode power supplies. Erickson/Maksimovic has a really good switching power supply program going on at the University of Colorado, Boulder (COPEC). This text augments that program. The text covers all the necessities to become well versed in switching power supply design: DC transfer, small signal AC analysis, efficiency analysis, classical control theory, etc. Every imaginable combination of power supply topology is examined...some very useful, some not so, both continuous and discontinuous conduction modes are analyzed, and powerful analysis concepts such as Middlebrooks extra element theorem, and classical control theory are also offered.

This text is no cook book. So the weekend hobbyist will not have much use for this book. It is however, a powerfully practical, and insightful text which provides the tools necessary if you intend on contributing in this field.

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This book is realy the most comprehensive and useable analysis of switch mode power I have seen. I would highly recommend for anyone who is designing or analyzing switch mode power.

I would like like to see the authors publish a solutions handbook for the chapter problems.