Power Integrations is aiming at larger home appliances needing to meet IEC60335 with an X-capacitor discharger that can empty 6µF in under a second. X-capacitors are part of the EMC input filter of power supplies (see diagram right), that are essentially connected directly to the appliance’s mains plug and, uncontrolled, are left with up to ...

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