Re: Flybacks

To: "'Tesla List'" <tesla-at-poodle.pupman-dot-com>
Subject: Re: Flybacks
From: Tesla List <tesla-at-stic-dot-net>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 07:26:50 -0500
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From: 	Malcolm Watts[SMTP:MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz]
Sent: 	Thursday, September 18, 1997 1:08 AM
To: 	tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: 	Re: Flybacks

> 
> From:   Thornton, Russ #CSR2000[SMTP:ThorntoR-at-rc.pafb.af.mil]
> Sent:   Wednesday, September 17, 1997 9:48 AM
> To:     'Tesla discussion Group'
> Subject:    RE: Flybacks
> 
> >
> >From:  Malcolm Watts[SMTP:MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz]
> >Sent:  Tuesday, September 16, 1997 5:18 PM
> >To:    tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
> >Subject:   Re:  Flybacks
> >
> >My apologies Russ,
> >                   SMPS is the acronym for "Switch-Mode Power Supply".
> >
> >Malcolm
> > 
> >> From:   Thornton, Russ #CSR2000[SMTP:ThorntoR-at-rc.pafb.af.mil]
> >> Sent:   Tuesday, September 16, 1997 7:51 AM
> >> To:     'Tesla discussion Group'
> >> Subject:    Flybacks
> >> 
> >> "Flyback is a SMPS topology. It is not a requirement of a flyback 
> >> supply that any part of it be tuned. You are talking about one 
> >> designed for a particular application. "
> >> 
> >> Malcolm, please pardon my ignorance but what is SMPS topology?
> >> My IEEE Dictionary of terms defines SMPS as "simplified message
> >> processing simulation."
> >
> Well that makes sense as I knew that fact, just never saw that acronym
> before.  BTW,  I took a course on switching power supplies from  Dr.
> Slobodan Cuk in California.  He owns a company called TESLAco in Irvine,
> CA.  He is a staunch Tesla fan as he is a refugee born in the same town
> as Tesla. he was not particularly interested in coiling, though.  
> 
> Just some useless trivia.

Worth remembering though. He was the inventor of the Cuk converter. 
I'd forgotten about that one.

Malcolm