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Amphenol Industrial Products Group now offers SurLok Plus, a high-current cabling system designed to meet the needs of energy storage for commercial and residential battery storage systems as well as electric and hybrid electric vehicles. Amphenol’s new high-current cabling system comes in an unsealed configuration or IP67-rated, which offers excellent environmental sealing to protect the system from the elements. Used

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Molex Incorporated introduces the new TermiMate™ one-circuit terminal-style connector system. Designed to minimize the shadowing effect in LED lights and TV backlighting applications, the ultra-low profile TermiMate coplanar board-to-board and wire-to-board connector reduces component and assembly costs for manufacturers. “In LED applications, standard higher profile components are prone to create unwanted shadowing that negatively impacts the light quality,” said Goji

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Siemens has expanded its power monitoring system from the Sentron portfolio by adding the 7KM PAC5100 and 7KM PAC5200 measuring devices. Designed for use in industrial plants or buildings, the new devices record not only the entire energy data but all relevant parameters for assessing the power quality. A constant power supply in a defined quality is essential for the

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Atmel Corporation today launched the industry’s most innovative Single-Wire EEPROM with only two-pins—a data pin and ground pin for operation—making the new family ideal for the Internet of Things (IoT), wearables, consumable, battery and cable identification markets. The new devices are self-powered, eliminating the need for a power source or Vcc pin, with a parasitic power scheme over the data

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Universal Lighting Technologies‘ EVERLINE® LED Drivers simplify driver replacement with a variety of options. As the industry is starting to see the need for field replacement, having the right replacement driver is critical. Drivers must be specifically selected with the precise current and power rating for optimal lighting and color performance. EVERLINE Drivers in the distribution channel make replacement quick

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AVX Corporation has released a new COTS+ version of its TCR Professional Series polymer tantalum chip capacitors. Designed for use in critical military systems, the new TCB Series COTS+ polymer tantalum capacitors feature conductive polymer electrodes, which enable extremely low ESR and reduce the potential for ignition failure. Additionally, each batch undergoes lot conformance testing and additional reliability level verification

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The DSR8F600 600V 8A hyper-fast rectifier introduced by Diodes Incorporated has been designed specifically for use as a boost diode for power-factor correction (PFC) and continuous conduction mode (CCM) applications. The target market is in switched-mode power supplies that need to deliver an output greater than 75W in end-equipment such as flat-panel TVs, servers and telecoms systems, where new regulatory

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Pulse Electronics Corporationannounces the release of a family of six new ultra-low profile SMT shielded inductors for compact point-of-load and mobile devices. With mounted height profiles of 1.0mm to 3.2mm, these inductors are well-suited for today’s mobile computing, home automation, portable POS, and other small handheld devices. Recommended: 2MHz Monolithic GaN Half Bridge targets Class-D Audio These new ultra-low profile

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LAPIS Semiconductor, a ROHM Group company, has recently announced the development of a 10-cell lithium-ion battery monitoring LSI that provides a current consumption of only 25µA (typ.), the lowest in the industry, making it suited for battery protection systems in cordless vacuum cleaners, electric tools, and other portable equipment. The ML5233 also claims an industry-low 0.1µA (typical) current consumption during

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Allegro MicroSystems, LLC expands its automotive regulator portfolio by adding two devices targeted specifically at USB power applications. Allegro’s A8652 and A8653 devices are high output current synchronous buck regulator ICs that provide tight load regulation over a wiring harness without the need for remote sense lines. This remote load regulation is achieved with an integrated open-loop correction scheme that,

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