Atlas Sound Power Supply

hi welcome to fundamentals Friday today we're going to take a look at ripple and noise measurement and specifications you familiar with it you've seen it on your power supply your bench power supply that you've got lying around no doubt you see that ripple and noise measurement they might give a typical value for a PSU like 1 millivolt rms / 5 millivolts peak to peak ripple and noise what exactly does that mean what's ripple and what's noise and how do you measure it what are the traps for young players well I'm glad you asked so what does it ripple mean let's take a look at that first and you're almost certainly familiar with this term you've seen it used in terms of linear power supply for example and we'll get into that now it can be correctly described as the charge discharge cycle of the storage element in whatever power supply you're actually using be linear or switch mode there's