Last time we looked at spike and surge - a major cause of non-age related failure in the field. In this final episode we look at environmen...

Last time we looked at optocoupler ageing and saw how this innocent little component constitutes such a high failure risk for power supplie...

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Last time we looked at Power MOSFETs and uncovered some surprising factors which have a big impact on long term reliability. This week we l...

Last month we looked at film capacitors and saw how selecting the wrong material for the application can have very serious consequences. Th...

L ast month we looked at electrolytic capacitors, their limitations and why you need to pay careful attention to ripple current rating. ...

Design for life It's interesting. Being involved with switch mode power supply design for over 40 years, you learn what works and wha...