Tag: news

19
Jun

DuPont Launches Corian Charging Surface

DuPont Building Innovations has “cut the cord” with its launch of DuPont™ Corian® Charging Surface, a new technology that easily charges mobile devices without the need for wires and plugs cluttering the countertop. This innovative offering is on display in Chicago this week at NeoCon 2015, the largest commercial interiors show in North America. Available for both residential and commercial

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19
Jun

Connectors for 120 to 277 Vac Single-Phase Power to 30A

Anderson Power Products® (APP) introduces the Saf-D-Grid® 300, designed specifically for single-phase ac applications requiring higher voltages, smaller size, and expanded current carrying capability. Saf-D-Grid 300 builds upon the performance of the 400V dc Saf-D-Grid connector, using the same silver-plated, pure copper contact system and durable thermoplastic insulators. Configurations allow up to 30A and 300V within the same panel cutout

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19
Jun

AEC-Q101 Qualified TVS Diodes Protect Load Dumps

Littelfuse, Inc. has introduced the TP6KE Series Automotive TVS Diodes, which are designed specifically to protect sensitive electronic equipment from voltage transients induced by load dump and other transient voltage events. These AEC-Q101 qualified devices offer a 600W peak pulse power dissipation rating in a standard DO-15 package and high temperature capability with an operating junction temperature (Tj) of up

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19
Jun

Bidirectional 2A Buck-Boost Supercapacitor Charger

Linear Technology Corporationintroduces the LTC3110, a bidirectional, programmable input current buck-boost supercapacitor charger with active charge balancing for 1- or 2-series supercapacitors. The proprietary low noise buck-boost topology does the work of two separate switching regulators, saving size, cost and complexity. The LTC3110 operates in two modes, backup and charge mode. In backup mode, the device maintains a system voltage,

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19
Jun

Self-Protected Resettable e-Fuse targets Consumer Devices

Designed to enhance system reliability against shutdown and catastrophic failures, the NIS5135 resettable electronic fuse introduced by Diodes Incorporatedis suited to plug-and-play applications in consumer applications including hard disc and solid state drives, printers, and set-top boxes. By allowing the product to recover, this e-fuse helps reduce unnecessary field returns. Operating over a wide 3.1V to 18V input voltage range

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19
Jun

Precise Voltage Measurements with Lower Component Count

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. today introduced a new series of high-voltage thin-film flat chip resistors that is the first to combine precision properties — low VCR < 1 ppm/V, tight tolerances to ± 0.1%, and low TCR down to ± 10 ppm/K — with high operating voltages to 1000V. With typical thin-film chip resistors in comparable case sizes only offering voltages

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19
Jun

High-Density Open-Frame 200W and 150W AC-to-DCs

GE’s Critical Power business today announced two new additions to its open-frame, Compact Low Power (CLP) family of ac-dc power supplies — its CLP0224FP and CLP0112FP. These new solutions complement the already released CLP0212FP solution, a 200W, 12V ac-dc solution. The CLP0224FP, 200W, 24V power supply delivers efficiencies of greater than 90 percent in a compact, high-density 2-by-4-inch footprint at

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19
Jun

First-to-Market Wireless Power Laptop Transmitter intro’d at NeoCon

Gill Electronics, Inc. announced today that the company will be introducing its first-to-market TesLink™ Laptop Transmitter designed to wirelessly power devices with higher power requirements such as laptop computers during the NeoCon commercial interiors show taking place this week in Chicago. OFS Brandswill be promoting this new technology in conjunction with Gill. Various products will be embedded within OFS Brand’s

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19
Jun

Utility-Scale Solar Power Monitoring Platform

Swinerton has created a new division — utilizing and expanding the SOLV® (System Operations Live View) brand. SOLV evolved out of Swinerton Renewable Energy’s Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) capabilities, providing Operations and Maintenance (O&M) services for renewable energy projects around the country. Recommended: Li-ion Battery Module offers 10-year Life As the market continued to grow, and new prospects emerged,

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19
Jun

Smart Metering Backhaul and Distribution Automation

ABB is showcasing its latest outdoor broadband mesh router, designed to meet the communication networking requirements of utilities in Europe, during the CIRED conference in Lyon, France from June 15-18,2015. The new Tropos 6420 offers European utilities a reliable, cost-effective alternative to service provider networks to deliver wireless communications for smart grid applications such as smart metering backhaul and distribution

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