Modular power supply

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2008-10-14

2010-12-07

Fureman, Jared (Department: 2836)

Electrical transmission or interconnection systems

Plural supply circuits or sources

Series-parallel connection of sources

Reexamination Certificate

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07847436

ABSTRACT:
A power supply including a plurality of power supply modules and method of operating such a power supply includes monitoring the state of individual power supply modules. The power supply modules are monitored to prevent the operation of the modules outside a predetermined range. One power supply described herein includes a greater number of power supply modules than necessary to produce a desired output waveform. This allows a subset of power supply modules to be chosen to produce the desired output based on the state of each of the power supply modules as determined by monitoring.

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