Input Capacitor Selection for Power Supplies (Part 1)

This is Part 1 of our 3 videos about Input Capacitor sizing and selection for switch mode power supplies. In this video we talk about why we need input capacitors, what roles ceramics and electrolytics play and we will show on an oscilloscope, how the noise on our input voltage changes with varying amount of capacitance. In the next 2 videos we will show exactly how to calculate the amount ceramics and electrolytics that we need for a given specification.