Vulf Ozechov passed away unexpectedly on 9 June 2013 at the age of 78 at his home in Skokie, IL. Vulf designed transformers, inductors, motors, and electromechanical equipment for more than half a century at companies and organizations on three continents. Ozechov was born on 22 May 1935 in Lazdiy, Lithuania. At the age of…
Push Pull Switching Transformer Design
One flavor of a high frequency switching transformer is known as a push-pull transformer. A push–pull transformer is a DC-to-DC switching transformer; it is often used to change a power supply’s DC voltage. These power supplies are known as switched-mode-power-supplies (SMPS). Older, linear power supplies often used low frequency, heavy silicon steel type transformers to…