A power system causes no variation in output voltage during switching from a
linear
regulator to a DC-DC converter. The power system switches off a drive circuit of
a DC-DC converter and supplies voltage to a load from a linear regulator if the
load is light, while the power system halts voltage supply to the load from the
linear regulator and switches the drive circuit of the DC-DC converter on if the
load is heavy. During a set period of time after the load changes from light to
heavy, the linear regulator continues to supply voltage to the load while the DC-DC
converter supplies a pseudo feedback signal to a control circuit in place of a
feedback signal, with the drive circuit left off to control the time ratio at switching
elements and, thus minimizing output voltage variations.