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Ixys Corporation today announced the availability of Solarade – the smallest and lightest 5W solar charger designed for smart phones, tablets, and multi-media players. Measuring 230mm in length, 160mm in width, and 17mm in height and weighing only 170g, the Solarade is highly portable and efficient. Its monocrystalline solar panel/module has a high efficiency of 20 percent and generates a

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GS Battery (U.S.A.) Inc. has announced that they will be unveiling a new battery model at the upcoming InterSolar trade show in San Francisco, CA. The new SLR-1000 is a 2-Volt Advanced Lead battery that provides 5000 cycles at 70% depth of discharge. Eric Gallant, Director of Business Development at GS Battery stated, “This battery is a major advancement in

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Tollgrade Communications, Inc.announced today the availability of its LightHouse® 5.0 platform. The LightHouse platform, consisting of Medium Voltage (MV) Smart Grid Sensors with accurate voltage measurements and enhanced Predictive Grid® Analytics capabilities, is the first of its kind to offer a battery-free, software-enabled Smart Grid Sensor that has been verified by independent, third-party labs and customer deployments to measure voltage

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Littelfuse, Inc. has introduced six new series of high-reliability TVS diodes that are upscreened for use in aerospace applications. The 5KP/15KPA/30KPA-HR and 5KP/15KPA/30KPA-HRA Series High-Reliability TVS Diodes are designed specifically to protect sensitive electronic equipment from voltage transients induced by lightning surges and other transient voltage events. They have been specially screened and sorted for use in dc line protection

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Power Integrations today announced its HiperPFS™-3 family of power factor correction ICs, which offer high power factor and high efficiency across the entire load range. Targeting applications with continuous power demands up to 405W for universal input and 900W for high-line, the ICs feature efficiency levels of better than 95% from 10% load to full load and consume less than

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MegaChips Corporation today announced the availability of its BlueChip PLC chip with Multi-hop capability. The KL5BPLC250WMP is a high frequency PLC communication SoC that can operate over longer distances than traditional PLC devices. This product is scheduled to begin mass production from October 2015. Traditional PLC devices such as the IEEE 1901, communicate between a Master and many Terminals, but

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Allegro MicroSystems, LLC announces a new Vertical Hall-effect Sensor IC that is an extremely temperature-stable and stress-resistant magnetic sensing device designed for harsh operating environments. Allegro’s A1260 is actuated by alternating north and south polarity magnetic fields in plane with the device’s branded face rather than perpendicular to the branded face, as in a traditional Hall-effect sensor. This enables system

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TRUMPower announces the medically approved 500W TMPC-500H, passing testing for compatibility with the Haswell™ processor platform. Compared to the prior generation Ivy Bridge™ platform, the Haswell™ platform substantially cuts the minimum sleep power consumption by one order of magnitude from 6W to 0.6W. Incompatible power supplies may require a hard reset when there is a substantial load on the non-primary

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The HDM Series from Stackpole Electronicsis a thru-hole carbon film resistor with proprietary materials and processing that greatly improve the performance of this series in high humidity applications. Typically, film resistors can be susceptible to moisture corrosion when exposed to high humidity conditions. This corrosion will begin as a positive resistance shift initially and eventually will lead to the part

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Infineon Technologies AG has announced the introduction of a family of rugged, reliable 700 V High-Voltage ICs (HVICs) optimized for solar, power supply, uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), welding and industrial drive applications. The 700V offering enables designers of high-voltage power stages to simplify their design while making them more robust. Recommended: 650V GaN Power Transistors feature 12mOhm Rdson “The new

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