Fundamentals of Power Electronics

Fundamentals of Power Electronics (2nd Ed) is one of the most readable engineering texts I've ever come across. This text was required for a power electronics graduate course. The course covered about 80% of the book. Given it's 850+ pages, I expected that I'd be skimming most of it to pick out the important topics as fast as I could, but I ended up reading every page. The topics are presented in a clear concise manner, and the references are very useful. If you've been out of school for a while like I have, you may want to peruse an introductory circuit theory text first. Though, I found that I only had to reference the basics once or twice while reading this book. Keep in mind that while this text does touch on some "practical" points (specifying components, for example), it is primarily an introductory text on the theory of switching converters. My only complaint is that within the first month of owning this book, the binding ripped, and so I had to glue/tape it back together. But the content is outstanding (provided you're looking for a text book on the theory of switching converters).

I have several power electronics textbooks, and this is the best book I've found to use as a reference. I have also used Krein's book, which is a good introduction if you're taking his class at UIUC, but not as useful for reference.This book really takes you through all the main topics with pretty thorough coverage. At CU it's used for several courses, so it's more than just an introductory book. The first few chapters cover the basics, and then it gets into the more advanced topics (which are more practical for reference once you have learned the basics). I'm now taking those courses online and finding that Erickson follows his book pretty closely, so you get the added benefit of seeing it all twice whether you are a visual or audio learner.I was impressed that he devoted about 100 pages to magnetics design, which is really helpful. Not the same as having McLyman's book, but it will do if just need a fairly straight-forward inductor or transformer designed.Bottom line: I already have this book and am considering buying another copy to have one at home and the other at the office.

The content is presented in a clear and well-paced manner. But the digital download has some noticeable flaws that may bother many of you. My overall experience is a good one, however. The authors start off by explaining everything you need to know in order to understand the equations. They start out simple and build-up in greater complexity as you progress through the material. This area of engineering is fairly broad and they do a good job of breaking up the content; it's well organized, too. I give then five stars; great job people! But I can't say the same for the people responsible for creating the digital version. The digital download has too many flaws to keep count of: the subscripts sometimes are wrong or there is a large amount of space between the letters of a subscript; some words appear like Cuk and there are large amounts of space between words in places; and the font is too large. If you want to save time and money and you're tolerant like me then this might be your best bet to get a handle on this sub-discipline of electrical engineering. If you are a student and just starting out in electrical engineering I wouldn't recommend this book. You may become frustrated and waste your time and money. You should know basic circuit analysis, some theory behind electronic devices, electromagnetics, and understand some basic techniques like network analysis and the per-unit system / transformer turns-ratio elimination. And for those with no electrical engineering background I'd avoid this one unless you're exceptionally driven and self-motivated. I gave four stars because the authors, not Amazon, deserve a good rating on their work. The book is a great and interesting read; it's easily digested if you have the background.

NOTE: I have only completed the first 6 of 20 chapters in this book, but I will give my review based on my experience so far.As a graduate student in Electric Power Engineering, this is one of the best books I have purchased in all of my university studies. As long as you have taken an introductory circuits course in your undergraduate curriculum, Dr. Erickson does a great job at explaining power electronics in a way that anyone can understand. I have been assigned books in many of my classes that contain poor explanations/example problems, unorganized structure, or even missing material that is vital to understanding the subject. However, this is not one of those textbooks. Although my current professor does a phenomenal job at teaching the material, I honestly feel that I could fully understand the course material by only reading this textbook. For me, as someone who prefers learning in-lecture, this is a rare instance. Do not hesitate to purchase this textbook!

This book covers a variety of topics a very well versed manner. It "refreshes" all the techniques you will need to analyze power electronics as it is needed, so no need to start with several chapters reviewing years of mathematics or electric circuits. The coverage of such material is so good that I feel that you will (re)learn the material here better than in the class that it was taught, such as the coverage of transformer models of power electronics, linearizations, bode plots, magnetics, filters, lagrange multipliers (!), resonant circuits, etc. The reason for this is because as soon as it is covered you will see how it is applied in power electronics and how these techniques provide you with a "feel" and "intuition" for the system. There is great emphasis in design and developing your skills as an engineer. This book is great as an introduction to this field.

Goes over the basics and mentions the more interesting topics as well. Far above most textbooks on Power Electronics in terms of content and writing in my opinion.Just be careful of the binding under heavy use. Although I've had no problems up till now, it does not inspire the most confidence.

The book arrived late but it was with good quality.

Exactamente lo que yo pedía y a una velocidad increíble de llegada. Mucho antes de lo que se estimo que tardaría. Muy buena compra

The best book to start power electronics , especially DC-DC converters and the book is structured to give understanding of the subject in a phased manner. The author Erickson is one of the few students of middlebrook ("pioneer in DC DC converter design ) from Caltech .

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