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How are power supplies tested ?

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Testing power supply

Under what conditions, power supplies are tested, and are considered qualified?(every kind of power supply )
For example if power supply is rated at 5v300mA , if it has a transformer, it means when there is a 300 mA load, you should have 5v across the PSU? while it might have 8v under no load, and if it's switching its always 5v until max 300mA is reached?

I came across some circuit which was pretty odd to me (the design style) I was wondering if this was a safe design and will always result in the same voltage over same provided input or not.

My whole idea was to use same approach by using a pwm ... to make a variable psu.

https://www.electronics-lab.com/projects/power/020/mcu_power_supply_schematic.png
Digital Multiple Voltage Power Supply
 

Re: Testing power supply

The regulation itself is done by the LM350, the micrcontroller sets only the operating point. So for the properties of this supply, you need to refer to the LM350 datasheet. The only thing happened here that the potentiometer to make a variable power supply is changed by a variable resistor set by the microcontroller. (see schematic diagram on **broken link removed**)




qualities of power supplies are in general:
- output voltage ripple
- output voltage accuracy
- load regulation
- line regulation
- efficiency
 
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