Current Carrying Capacity

• Trace Width Calculator: https://www.4pcb.com/trace-width-calculator.html

  • Handy calculator for figuring out PCB trace widths based on current and temperature requirements.

• Wire Gauge Ampacity Table:American Wire Gauge Chart and AWG Electrical Current Load Limits table with ampacities, wire sizes, skin depth frequencies and wire breaking strength

  • Useful for getting a sense of what current load different wire gauges can handle. Note that the ampacity table in the competition rulebooks should always be deferred to whenever possible.

LC Filter Design

• LC Filter calculator: https://rf-tools.com/lc-filter/

  • Enter filter topology, order, input/output impedance, cutoff frequencies, and ripple requirements

  • Outputs the either the exact or the nearest standard component values needed to implement the filter, along with a schematic of the filter and a bode plot of the frequency response

• Switching Power Supply Filter Design app notes: https://www.ti.com/lit/an/snva538/snva538.pdf (edited)

  • Section on parallel damped filter is a good reference on how to use damping resistors to eliminate resonance from a passive LC filter

Resonant Converter Design

• App note from TI:

• Another paper on LLC design:

Textbooks

https://nerdocs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/NER/pages/158105601