Many power supplies use hold-up capacitors to keep enough energy at the full-wave or bridge rectifier output to supply a load when the rectified voltage drops and rises again at the next half-cycle of ...

If a larger value of resistance were used with the same value of capacitance in the above circuit, then a smaller current would flow, therefore it would take longer for the capacitor to charge up and ...

Abstract: The Multi-layer Ceramic (MLC) capacitor is a critical yet vulnerable component in power electronic converters, where degradation leads to a decrease in capacitance. Monitoring capacitance is ...