Hyperloop One, just one of several startups trying to build Elon Musk’s Hyperloop, has notched up an important milestone, today announcing it has successfully tested its full-scale system for the first time. While it has still got considerable work to do before it fires passenger pods through tubes at supersonic speeds, it was able to levitate the moving test vehicle over the track in what it describes as its “Kitty Hawk” moment.
 Configure the charge and discharge current separately in a reversible buck/boost regulatorSponsored by Maxim Integrated (now part of Analog Devices) The design of a front-end converter can be made less complicated when minimal extra current overhead is required for charging the supercapacitor. This application note explains how to configure the reversible buck/boost converter to achieve a lighter impact on the system during the charging phase. Setting the charge current requirement to the minimum amount keeps the discharge current availability intact. |
