Everyone likes to play with high voltages, right?. Even though the danger of death goes up with every volt, it’s likely that a few readers will have at some time or other made fancy long sparks.

China is emerging as a large manufacturer of CRT-based TV components says Daniel Yang in iSuppli’s “Market Watch—China”... In fact, China has become the world’s largest flyback transformer ...

With the LT6813, designers can build an optoisolator-free power controller that delivers from 20- to 600-V dc output up to 100 W using an updated version of the long-established “flyback” principle.