Electronic – Is SMPS a non-isolated power supply

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I came across an online tutorial which has the following category:

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As you see SMPS is categorized as a non-isolated power supply.
Or am I interpreting the tree wrong?

But isnt an SMPS isolated through a transformer and opto-coupling(for the feedback)?

Best Answer

That's only a part of the power supply taxonomy tree. The other parts of the taxonomy are probably in a further section of your tutorials. A bigger picture might look like this:

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The blue dotted line shows the sub-section of the tree posted in the question.