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Bonfiglioli Vectron GmbH today announced global availability of the Ampt Mode™ version of its RPS TL inverter series. The new Bonfiglioli RPS TL inverters in Ampt Mode(TM) are deployed with dc optimizers from Ampt, LLC to increase PV plant performance at lower total system cost. At Booth B3.150 during Intersolar Europe 2014, Bonfiglioli will have its RPS TL inverter series

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Victron Energy B.V. has introduced four new models to their ultra-fast BlueSolar charge controller (MPPT) range. The series now comprises eight models, including the BlueSolar MPPT 100/30, BlueSolar MPPT 100/50, BlueSolar MPPT 150/35 and BlueSolar MPPT 150/85. In expanding the range, Victron have increased customer choice and further enhanced the ideal matching of solar charge controllers for any given system.

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Gresham Power Electronics announces the availability of a Compact PCI power supply ruggedized for MIL and industrial applications. The new 7602 model is a 6U ac-dc cPCI PSU which is conformally-coated in accordance with IPC-CC-830 and has been redesigned to meet the requirements of MIL-STD-461F surge test per MIL-STD-1399, withstand ESD to 8KV, has very low output ripple and noise

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Texas Instruments has augmented its Hercules MCU line with the addition of its RM57Lx and TMS570LCx MCUs, which feature two ARM Cortex-R5F floating-point CPUs operating in lockstep. The new MCU lines offer additional on-chip flash and RAM as well as a 50% performance increase over earlier TI Cortex-R-based MCUs. The new families are intended to accelerate development of applications required

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Texas Instruments  today introduced the industry’s highest-performance 14-GHz fractional-N PLLatinum® phased-locked loop (PLL) with advanced frequency modulation. The LMX2492 offers the industry’s best noise performance, 6 dB better than the nearest competitor, for improved radio frequency (RF) sensitivity and radar range and accuracy. The device also supports a 200-MHz phase frequency detector, a 5-V charge pump supply and a wide

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Texas Instruments today introduced the first scalable, multi-cell battery monitors that significantly improve battery pack safety and reduce design time of 12-V to 48-V lithium-ion and lithium-iron phosphate batteries used in e-bikes, power tools and energy storage systems. The new bq76920, bq76930 and bq76940 circuits efficiently protect and control 3- to 15-cell batteries when charging or operating in harsh environment

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Featuring up to 200-MHz performance, Texas Instruments’ TMS320C5517 digital signal processor (DSP) speeds processing of data with low standby and low active power consumption, thanks to increased parallelism. Its core includes 13.33- to 5-ns instruction cycle time, a 75- to 200-MHz clock rate, dual multiply-and-accumulate units (up to 450 million multiply-accumulates per second, MMACS), two ALUs, and three internal data/operand

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The cylindrical Lithium Ion Capacitor (LIC) from Taiyo Yuden (U.S.A.) Inc. offers extremely large energy density and high reliability. Combining the strength of lithium-ion secondary batteries with conventional Electric Double Layer Capacitors (EDLC), this next-generation energy device offers an energy density 4 times greater than EDLCs. Taiyo Yuden’s hybrid LIC boasts the key features of batteries (high voltage and high

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In a sign of their growing acceptance, string inverters are increasingly being considered in megawatt (MW)-scale photovoltaic (PV) systems, with over 40 percent of inverter buyers regarding them as suitable for use in systems larger than 1 MW, according to a new report from IHS Technology. In an IHS survey, more than 300 solar installers, distributors and engineering, procurement and

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First Solar, Inc. today announced the launch of its modular AC Power Block™ solar power plant solution and its next generation First Solar Series 4™ thin film photovoltaic (PV) module. The company will showcase these and other solutions at Intersolar Europe in Munich, Germany from 4 to 6 June 2014. Purpose-built for power plant owners and developers seeking to minimize

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