Here on “Watt’s Up?” we have provided a good number of
posts about various protection features incorporated into system power supplies
to protect your device against power-related damage during test. Just recently
my colleague Gary posted “How Does Power Supply Over-Voltage Work?” (Click here to review) Here he reviews inner workings of different OVP implementations. I recently posted “Safeguarding Your
Power-Sensitive DUTs against an Over-Power Condition” (Click here to review) Here I go
over a method to protect your DUT against excess power when other power supply
features like over current protection may be less than ideal.
The reason why we frequently share power-related
protection topics here is protecting your DUT is extremely important, there are
a lot of different capabilities incorporated in system power supplies for this
purpose, and there are a lot of practical considerations when putting them to
use.
Hopefully a number of you have found our posts on
protection-related topics of help. Because this is a very important topic and
there is so much more you should know about it I will be giving a live
web-based seminar “Protecting Your Device against Power-Related Damage during
Test” on August 20th, just a few weeks away from today. I will be
going over a number of protection-related topics which we have not yet covered
here on “Watt’s Up?”. One of my
objectives is to provide a more holistic view of the many ways a system power
supply is able to better safeguard against power-related damage as well as what
is practical to expect when using these various capabilities incorporated in
the power supply.
You can register online at the following (Click here for description and registration page) In case you are not able to attend the live event on August 20 you will
be able to register and listen to seminar afterward as well, as it will be
recorded.
So if protecting your device against power-related damage
is important to you I hope you are able to attend the seminar!