A power supply is an electrical device that supplies electric power to an electrical load. The main purpose of a power supply is to convert electric current...
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uninterruptible power supply (UPS) or uninterruptible power source is a type of continual power system that provides automated backup electric power to a load...
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A switched-mode power supply (SMPS), also called switching-mode power supply, switch-mode power supply, switched power supply, or simply switcher, is...
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A power supply unit (PSU) converts mains AC to low-voltage regulated DC power for the internal components of a desktop computer. Modern personal computers...
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IC power-supply pins denote a voltage and current supply terminals in electric, electronics engineering, and in integrated circuit design. Integrated...
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Mains electricity (redirect from AC power supply)
general-purpose alternating-current (AC) electric power supply. It is the form of electrical power that is delivered to homes and businesses through the...
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A capacitive power supply or capacitive dropper is a type of power supply that uses the capacitive reactance of a capacitor to reduce higher AC mains voltage...
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Photovoltaic system (redirect from Solar photovoltaic power supply systems)
also called a PV system or solar power system, is an electric power system designed to supply usable solar power by means of photovoltaics. It consists...
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Ground-level power supply, also known as surface current collection or, in French, alimentation par le sol ("feeding via the ground"), is a concept and...
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A regulated power supply is an embedded circuit; it converts unregulated AC (alternating current) into a constant DC. With the help of a rectifier it converts...
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In electronic systems, power supply rejection ratio (PSRR), also supply-voltage rejection ratio (kSVR; SVR), is a term widely used to describe the capability...
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Power Supply is the eighth album by the Welsh heavy metal band Budgie, released in October 1980 on Active Records, a sublabel of RCA Records (which was...
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A welding power supply is a device that provides or modulates an electric current to perform arc welding. There are multiple arc welding processes ranging...
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AC adapter (redirect from External power supply)
adapter (also called a wall charger, power adapter, power brick, or wall wart) is a type of external power supply, often enclosed in a case similar to...
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Power management integrated circuits (power management ICs or PMICs or PMU as unit) are integrated circuits for power management. Although PMIC refers...
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ATX (redirect from ATX Version 3.0 Multi-Rail Power Supply Design Guide)
ATX (Advanced Technology Extended) is a motherboard and power supply configuration specification, patented by David Dent in 1995 at Intel, to improve on...
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Electricity sector in Norway (redirect from Power supply in norway)
emphasized four main goals, which were improving security in the supply of their power, improving the efficiency of their renewables, making their energy...
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A power supply is an electronic device that supplies electric energy to an electrical load. Power supply may also refer to: Power supply unit (computer)...
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Computer hardware (section Power supply)
and power supply. Separating the elements allows the user to arrange the components in a pleasing, comfortable array, at the cost of managing power and...
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USB hardware (redirect from USB Power Delivery Specification)
paths. The USB standard included power supply to peripheral devices; modern versions of the standard extend the power delivery limits for battery charging...
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Commodore 64 (section Power supply)
model, the Commodore 128, used a larger, improved power supply which included a fuse. The power supply for the Commodore REU was similar to that of the...
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Power cycling is the act of turning a piece of equipment, usually a computer, off and then on again. Reasons for power cycling include having an electronic...
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used in other applications where power supply and signal communication take place over the same wires. Phantom power supplies are often built into mixing...
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engineering, the power factor of an AC power system is defined as the ratio of the real power absorbed by the load to the apparent power flowing in the...
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becoming the first commercial application. In a symmetric three-phase power supply system, three conductors each carry an alternating current of the same...
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A power cord, line cord, or mains cable is an electrical cable that temporarily connects an appliance to the mains electricity supply via a wall socket...
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defined for special-purpose amplifiers, with additional active elements, power supply improvements, or output tuning; sometimes a new letter symbol is also...
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Laptop (section Battery and power supply)
plasma displays could only be used when connected to AC power, and had a built in power supply. The development of memory cards was driven in the 1980s...
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Sungrow (redirect from Sungrow Power Supply)
Sungrow (also known as Sungrow Power Supply ; Chinese: 阳光电源; pinyin: Yángguāng Diànyuán) is a publicly listed Chinese solar photovoltaic (PV) inverter...
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A stand-alone power system (SAPS or SPS), also known as remote area power supply (RAPS), is an off-the-grid electricity system for locations that are not...
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