Fundamentals of Power Electronics

Excellent book for power electronics. Small signal analsis was extremely helpful for control loop design. Highly recommend.

This is an excellent book on Power Electronics. Best one in my library of many. Covers a lot, and it's explained well. There are a few times where the authors seem to skip over important steps without explaining, but those are rare.

This book is being used to teach. I purchased for my faculty member. It is exactly what he needs.

On the positive side:The book is very good in its detailed explanation of mathematical models of power converters, how to model power converters for computer simulation, Middlebrook's Extra Element Theorem, design of magnetics and many other topics of power electronics design.On the negative side:The book is 1084 pages long. Binding a book this long in ONE SINGLE VOLUME is a very dumb choice.The book is unwieldy to handle. Want to take the book to school to study there? Forget about it. The book will take all the space in your bag.Why not bind this book in TWO SEPARATE VOLUMES???

As so many other reviewers have said, the binding is simply unacceptable for a book of this size — and cost. Picture was taken when the book was just out of the package. It had never even been opened and already the pages are letting go from the cover.

This book is an excellent EE resource for power electronics. I really like it, and always the first book I grab to use as reference in power electronics. However, I have to use extra glue to reinforce the binding. The binding is very poor.

The book has exceptional content, it's *the* reference book for power management system design.The binding is another story though. My book had 34 pages fall out as soon as I opened it and at least another 100 pages seem ready to fall out. The glue used at the printing plant not only seemed insufficient but looked like it was crumbling already.

The book content and witing is phenomenal, this is really a reference book in this field. I have previous 2nd edition that I purchased when it was published. Unfortunatelly, I had to return this new book, and cancel the order because the printing on this edition was messed up. The entire page content is shifted several lines up, leaving a large blank space at the bottom of each page. It is very annoying for reading. Also, the cover of the book I received was scratched and had some stains on it, probably due to poorly shippping packaging. The binding seems pretty weak, for book of this size, and it looks like other buyers noticed the same.I am not sure what happened, why is this edition of so poor printing quality. The previous edition was superb, I am was using it at work often as reference textbook, and it held together all these years.