Switching Power Supply Solar-Array Latchup(4 of 4)

Personal Anecdote

I ran across this when I thought I might get involved in Direct Energy Transfer Systems. I never did get involved, but I thought it was a good example of a problem occurring with powering a switching-mode power supply from a current-limit source as well as being a controllability problem. You can get into a lot of controllability problems (getting into modes that you can't get out of except by turning off the system or taking some other drastic action) with switching-mode power supplies. I hope to eventually discuss these types of controllability problem on this website.

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