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Testing the board

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Figure 10.

Figure 11.

When the device works in burst mode, a lower frequency ripple is present. In this mode of

operation the converter does not supply continuous power to its output. It alternates the

period when the power MOSFET is kept off and no power is processed by the converter and

the period when the power MOSFET is switching and power flows towards the converter

output. Even if no load is present at the output of the converter, during no switching periods

the output capacitors are discharged by their leakage currents and the currents required to

supply the part of the feedback loop present at the secondary side. During the switching