TT Electronics has announced the HPWC (high pulse withstanding chip) range of high energy surge resistors, designed to maximise surge performance in a thick-film single-sided flat chip design. The product is essentially an evolution of the firm’s PWC (pulse withstanding chip) resistors, but where the resistance value is adjusted by precise process control rather than ...
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Don’t forget new fuseholder safety regulations, is the message from Schurter. “Tests of devices with built-in fuseholders have shown that their installation position has a major influence on heat generation and fire development,” said the firm. “The fuseholder standard IEC 60127-6 has been revised with the aim of improving fire protection. Accordingly, since October 2017, ...
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Connector maker Cliff has announced M3 threadded versions of its FeedThrough connector rage. “All models of their metal housed connector can be ordered with M3 threaded mounting holes facilitating simple panel assembly without the need for securing nuts and washers,” said the Surrey-based firm. The FeedThrough range fits into cut-outs for the industry-standard XLR connector format. ...
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Power supply maker Recom has introduced a universal half-bridge development board and reference design – “a design that can be used to compare the real-life performance of various high power IGBT, 1st and 2nd generation SiC, GaN, mosfet and cascode switching technologies”, said the firm. “As the gate driver and PCB layout is the same ...
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GaN power devices have entered the consumer market for the first time, claimed transistor-maker Transphorm, as gaming PC firm Corsair has used them in an ac-dc power supply to boost efficiency. The AX1600i 115V PSU apparently achieves 99% efficiency, “increasing power output by 6.5% in an 11% smaller [20mm shorter] package at the same temperature”, ...
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Murata has started production of X1 leaded ceramic safety capacitors rated at 760Vac(rms) for high voltage industrial applications such as 3-phase power supplies, inverters and motors. Called DE1, the series can also be used as a Y1 class capacitor for connection between an ac power line and ground, for which it is rated at 500Vac(rms). It ...
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Researchers at RMIT University in Melbourne have created a gas sensing pill that measures gut gasses after being swallowed. It uses a novel gas sensing technique, that has now been patented. According to ‘A human pilot trial of ingestible electronic capsules capable of sensing different gases in the gut‘, a paper in Nature Electronics, accuracy ...
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Described as a universal assistant for smart factories, Talking Pi from Joy-it is an open source, speech control intelligent module for systems and connected applications in smart factories and industrial control. The module, now available from Conrad Business Supplies, serves as an extension to Raspberry Pi, allows the control of lights, individual sockets or devices ...
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Analogue Devices has combined switched capacitor and inductive buck conversion in the same topology to reduce the size of step-down dc-dc converters. Called LTC7821, this is “industry first hybrid step-down synchronous controller that merges a switched capacitor circuit with a synchronous step-down controller, enabling up to a 50% reduction in DC/DC converter solution size compared ...
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At CES18 (9 – 12 January), Aaware will introduce its Sound Capture platform, based on Avnet’s MiniZed Zynq SoC. It integrates algorithmic acceleration and a flexible microphone array board with the dual-core Xilinx Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoCs. It is designed to help development teams create far-field, voice-to-machine communications functionality that is more natural and robust than available ...
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