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Australian Battery storage developer RedFlow has signed a master supply agreement with energy management company Schneider Electric. The agreement paves the way for the two companies to collaborate and develop energy storage solutions systems incorporating the Redflow battery. “Our smart battery technology is ideally situated to some of the markets Schneider currently service and we are working with Schneider to

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Why do lithium batteries degrade over time? US Researchers have collaborated to discover more about the mechanisms behind this degradation, with promises of improved battery life. Lithium batteries are used today to power many portable electronics devices. But lithium-ion batteries suffer nano-scale structural damage with each charge and discharge cycle. In two recent Nature Communications papers, scientists from several U.S.

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Dialog  has launched a MediaTek Pump Express Plus-compatible iW1788 AC/DC controller. Pump Express Plus is MediaTeks’s proprietary fast charge protocol that supports high power chargers with an output of 15W or more and reduces typical mobile device recharge times by up to 50%. The iW1788 quickly follows Dialog’s  recent introduction of its iW1680 Pump Express-compatible, 5W / 7.5W AC/DC controller

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Texas Instruments today announced a new power line communication (PLC) modem platform that supports the G3, PRIME and IEEE-1901.2 standards across both CENELEC and ARIB frequency bands. The new optimized TMDSPLCKITV4 kits provide developers with a smaller low-cost design to evaluate any narrowband orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) PLC technology standard for use in a variety of industrial systems such as

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The  LT8309 from Linear Technology Corporation is a flyback secondary-side synchronous rectifier driver that replaces the output diode with a MOSFET, allowing up to 10 A output current without the use of a heat sink. The maximum output current of a flyback power supply has been limited by the power loss and heat generated from the output diode when no

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Not everyone is an expert power supply designer, but those who are not may need to create a power supply design for your product in spite of the fact that you are not a power supply guru. Well, I really like it when a supplier creates another great tool for designers to get their product to market quicker so they

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STMicroelectronics NV has added a new family of Field-Effect Rectifier diodes (FERD) that offers a unique trade-off between low forward voltage drop (VF) and low leakage current (IR) that allows designers of equipment such as battery chargers and notebook adaptors to meet the most stringent energy-efficiency standard requirements without the expense of using synchronous rectification techniques. Standards such as Energy

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There is a new MOSFET technology design at the heart of PULS YR-series of redundancy modules which are now available at BEC Distribution. These new DIN-Rail Power Supply Redundancy Modules are aimed at critical applications where failure of the 24V power supply is not tolerable, and redundancy – where two or more supplies are paralleled – is the preferred fail-safe

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Researchers have developed a new battery technology that captures waste heat and converts it into electricity. Vast amounts of excess heat are generated by industrial processes and by electric power plants. Researchers around the world have spent decades seeking ways to harness some of this wasted energy.  Most such efforts have focused on thermoelectric devices – solid-state materials that can

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Texas Instruments  today unveiled WEBENCH® PCB Export, a new feature in TI’s online WEBENCH Power Designer tool that engineers can use to quickly create a power supply printed circuit board (PCB) layout and export it to industry-leading computer-aided design (CAD) development platforms. For more information or to start a design, visit www.ti.com/webenchpcb-pr. A significant challenge in power supply design is

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