Online failure prediction of the electrolytic capacitor for LC filter of switching-mode power converters

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 400-406

  Chen, Yaow Ming ^a   Wu, Hsu Chin ^a   Chou, Ming Wei ^b   Lee, Kung Yen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b DELTA ELECTRONICS INC   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Electrolytic capacitor; Equivalent series resistor; Failure prediction; Switching mode power converter

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC FILTERS; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ELECTROLYTIC CAPACITORS; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); RESISTORS;

EQUIVALENT SERIES RESISTOR; FAILURE PREDICTION; SWITCHING-MODE POWER CONVERTERS;

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 38349033569     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2007.903975     Document Type: Article

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