Powerful News from Astrodyne Title
Reliability & Configurations 
September 2009
In This Issue
MTBF & Power Supply Reliability
LED Driver Configurations
Principles of Power Conversion
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Welcome to Astrodyne's 
September e-newsletter designed to keep you informed on the latest developments and news in power conversion.
 
MTBF & Power Supply Reliability
 
MTBF & Power Supply ReliabilityA general misconception is that Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) is the same as the operational life of a product. In fact MTBF represents the statistical approximation of the percentage of units that will pass (or fail) during a products useful life period. MTBF should be considered as a measure of a product's reliability, not product life.  Read more....
LED Driver Configurations
 
LED Driver Configurations
This paper discusses a variety (Series, Parallel, Matrix, and Multi-Channel) of configurations for LED drivers.  For each configuration a diagram is presented along with a description of basic operation, advantages, disadvantages, failure modes, and design options.   Read more...
Principles of Power

Overview of power conversion which seeks to acquaint the system engineer with specifications and implementation guidelines.

      • AC/DC power conversion Principles of Power Conversion
      • Key parameters to consider 
      • Package and design styles
      • DC/DC power conversion
      • Safety Regulations
      • Designer checklist
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 Liz Mitchell Signature
Elizabeth Mitchell, Marketing Manager
Astrodyne
 
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