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   Transformers, Chopper

A chopper circuit is used to refer to numerous types of electronic switching devices and circuits. The term has become somewhat ill-defined, and as a result is much less used nowadays than it was perhaps 30 or more years ago.

Essentially, a chopper is an electronic switch that is used to interrupt one signal under the control of another. Most modern uses also use alternative nomenclature which helps to clarify which particular type of circuit is being discussed. These include:

  • switched mode power supplies, including DC to DC converters.
  • Speed controllers for DC motors
  • Class D Electronic amplifiers
  • Switched capacitor filters
  • Variable Frequency Drive


Bronze Partners
3S Industries, Co., Inc.
AAC Inc
Abbott Technologies, Inc.
Advanced Components Industries, Inc.
Alpha Technologies Inc.
Amecon, Inc.
American Magnetics
Bey Electronics Corp.
Bomag USA, LLC
C & C Jetronic
CET Technology
Cletronics Inc.
Coil Specialty Company
Communication Coil Inc.
Cramer Coil & Transformer Co., Inc.
CTM Magnetics
Custom Magnetics Inc.
Datatronic Distribution, Inc.
DT Magnetics
EAG Electronics
Electro-Numerics Inc.
Electromech, Inc.
Elytone Electronics Co., Ltd.
EPCO Products Inc.
Forest Electric Company
Freed Transformer Company, Inc.
General Linear Systems, Inc.
Hisonic, Inc.
Hitran Corp.
Hurricane Electronics Lab., Inc.
James Electronics
Keytronics, Inc.
Lenco Electronics, Inc.
Magnelab
Magnetico, Inc.
Magnetika, Inc
Microtran Manufacturing Division
Minntronix, Inc
Northlake Engineering, Inc.
Pico Electronics, Inc.
Precision Electronics
Pulse Specialty Components
RCD Components, Inc.
Renco Electronics, Inc.
Rhombus Industries
Robert M. Hadley Company, Inc.
Samwha USA Inc
Samwha USA, Inc.
Schott Magnetics
South American Development Corp.
Standex Electronics Inc.
Tamura Corp. of America
Thordarson Inc.
Torelco, Inc.
Torotel Products Inc.
Triad Magnetics (formerly Magnetek)
V & F Transformer Corp.
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TV Repair for Beginners
Homer L. Davidson

Excerpt - page 63: "... can consist of a full-wave bridge rectifier , regulator drive transformer, regulator control IC, x-ray protect, overcurrent shutdown transformer, chopper output; transistor, and chopper output transformer. The output voltage from ..."
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Low-Noise Electronic System Design
C. D. Motchenbacher and J. A. Connelly

Excerpt - page 299: "... following: isolation, impedance matching, noise matching, and common-mode rejection. Low-level transformers are used to discriminate against ... low-level systems include input transformers, chopper input transformers, interstage transformers, output ..."
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Industrial Control Handbook
E. A. Parr

Excerpt - page 287: "... signal is amplified and passed to the primary of a transformer. The chopper circuit and the amplifier are powered by their own floating ..."
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Audel Practical Electricity
Paul Rosenberg and Robert Gordon Middleton

Excerpt - page 207: "... RECTIFIER TRANSFORMER CHOPPER BATTERY 0 R1 ELECTRODES FLASH IGNITION CAPACITOR ELECTRODE IGNITION CAPACITOR ..."
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Closed Circuit Television: CCTV Installation, Maintenance and Operation, Second Edition
Joe Cieszynski

Excerpt - page 146: "... 146 Closed Circuit Television Chopper transformer T1 +320V d.c. t---------- F Rectifier and +150V N smoothing ..."
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Principles of Transistor Circuits : Introduction to the Design of Amplifiers, Receivers and Digital Circuits
S W Amos and Mike James

Excerpt - page 338: "... on operating frequency are hysteresis in the core of the chopper transformer and the switching speed of bipolar power transistors of the ..."
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Newnes Television & Video Engineer's Pocket Book (Newnes Pocket Books)
EUGENE TRUNDLE

Excerpt - page 216: "... is to rectify pulses at the secondary winding of a chopper transformer, which forms the heart of all modern power converters. They ..."
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Servicing TV, Satellite and Video Equipment
EUGENE TRUNDLE

Excerpt - page 24: "... PSU is the one given in Figure 3.3. Here the chopper control is carried out by ... all Trl and the chopper transformer T1 oscillate at about 80kHz; with an excessive load (i.e. ..."
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Gas Turbine Handbook
Tony Giampaolo

Excerpt - page 93: "... Accessories Low Tension Radio AC Filter Transformer Chopper Transformer Plug Power Source T Figure 6-3. Typical low energy ..."
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Coatings on Glass 1998
H. Pulker, H. Schmidt, and M.A. Aegerter

Excerpt - page 38: "... a controlled DC source. This initial circuit is called a chopper. Creating a controlled, 'chopped' DC ... a large, low frequency isolation transformer. Postponing the line-to-load isolation until later in the circuitry allows ..."
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Scroggie's Foundations of Wireless and Electronics, Eleventh Edition
Roger Amos and S W Amos

Excerpt - page 274: "... possible by connecting the receiver to the mains via a transformer which provided the necessary isolation. ... feeds the primary of a chopper transformer with a number of secondary windings proportioned to provide ..."
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VCR IC Data Files
J. EDWARDS

Excerpt - page 343: "... (2)  Startup & control source (3) ---~ Output to chopper transformer primary winding (4) --~ Chopper output current sensing resistor (5) ..."
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Developments in Electric Fishing
I. Sowx

Excerpt - page 350: "... AC, 50 Hz 220-380 V 60 kg Pulse generator or chopper and transformer 6 kg Rectifier 0.5 kg Pulse generator or chopper and ..."
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Television IC Data Files, Second Edition
J. EDWARDS

Excerpt - page 89: "... Pin 8 may be connected to a winding on the chopper transformer to check the core saturation state. 0 V corresponds to ..."
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Jane's Urban Transportation Systems 2004-2005 (Jane's Urban Transport Systems)
Mary Webb and Jackie Clarke

Excerpt - page 516: "... system for control applications in railway vehicles, DC contactors and choppers, transformers, pantographs. Products Asynchronous three-phase water-cooled AC traction motors up to ..."
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Newnes Service Engineer's Pocket Book (Newnes Pocket Books)
Geoff Lewis and Ian Sinclair

Excerpt - page 88: "... a common earth Transistor TrI acts as the switching or chopper device, whilst T I performs the function of the chopper transformer and also provides the isolation between this stage and the ..."
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Closed Circuit Television
Joe, Ieng, Miee(Elec), Cert. Ed., Cgi Cieszynski

Excerpt - page 130: "... and colour settings plus other data. The infra-red I Choooer transformer T1 -,----~-------- +320 V d.c. ... the isolating effect of the chopper transformer ..."
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TV & Video Engineer's Reference Book
BORIS TOWNSEND and Kenneth Jackson

Excerpt - page 406: "... It or ht supply line from the line output or chopper transformer. Faulty electrolytic capacitors are usually responsible. 55.3.3 Text decoder and ..."
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Analogue Electronics: Circuits, Systems and Signal PRocessing
David Crecraft and Stephen Gergely

Excerpt - page 10: "... regulator constant output from voltage T--- othing (a) a.c. supply transformer smo at 115V rectifier capacitor or 230V (a) (b) high-frequency transformer I chopper c. ti circuit I outputs I a.c. supply I ..."
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New Technologies for Energy Efficiency
Michael Frank Hordeski

Excerpt - page 251: "... prevent ignition energy from affecting local radio signals. An AC transformer, or transistorized chopper circuit transformer, boosts the voltage to about 2,000 volts in ..."
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Jane's Urban Transportation Systems 2005-06 (Jane's Urban Transport Systems)
Jackie Clarke and Mary Webb

Excerpt - page 580: "... system for control applications in railway vehicles; DC contactors and choppers, transformers, pantographs. Jane's Urban Transport Systems 2005-2006 juts.janes.com . `koda's low-floor ..."
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Troubleshooting and Repairing Solid-State TVs
Homer L. Davidson

Excerpt - page 68: "... with a leaky line voltage regulator and shorted output transistor. Chopper power supplies The chopper power ... chopper regulator transistor , chopper transformer, regulator control transistor, x-ray latch, and overcurrent shutdown transformer (Fig. ..."
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