When it comes to testing power supplies, it’s useful to have a dummy load to put the gear through its paces. While it’s possible to just use some old heating elements or other big resistors, an active ...

You use an active-load test circuit to ensure that a power supply for a microprocessor or for other digital loads supplies 100A transient currents. This active load can provide a dc load for a power ...

Why do utilities implement load control, and what do they do when consumption rates approach capacity? Newton-Evans asked these questions and has exclusively released those results to Penton Media’s ...

I was just reading a LinkedIn message regarding methods that could be used to load-test a power supply. The original poster wanted a method to do some active load testing inexpensively. He wanted to ...