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Great cartoon overview of switching power supplies from TDK: https://www.global.tdk.com/news_center/publications/power_electronics_world/pdf/aaa60600.pdf https

• segfaultbuserr 7y ago
  I wonder if cartoons like these (a distinct form of cartoons, unlike Tektronix) is a feature in Japanese media communication culture. I've seen similar comics of this style in Hakko's soldering 101 marketing materials [0], factsheets of Panasonic's solid aluminum capacitors, and user guides of Japanese laptops like Toshiba and Sony. [0] https://www.hakko.com/english/hikaru/pages/ https://www.hakko.com/english/hikaru/pages/ Hikaru's diary on learning to solder. A short story about soldering, from basic tools and safety precautions for getting started to solder things, good and bad solder joints, and the purpose of flux, it later goes on to explain how simple and thermal-regulated irons and how their heating elements work, point soldering and drag soldering techniques for SMD components, wave soldering and reflow soldering, and finally SnPb and lead-free alloy.