Circuit & System Protection


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Silicon ESD protectors
14 May 2014, Electrocomp
Design engineers are well aware that providing ESD (electrostatic discharge) protection according to the IEC’s 61000-4-2 standard can fall short when guarding against the more severe damage caused by ...

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Telecoms equipment protection ICs
14 May 2014, Altron Arrow
The devices in STMicroelectronics’ SMP-0SCMC series are micro-capacitance Trisils designed to protect broadband telecommunication equipment such as DSL modems, subscriber gateways and DSLAMs from lightning ...

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Heavy-duty staticide
14 May 2014, Actum Electronics
ACL’s Heavy Duty Staticide is a static control product that is ideal for eliminating static and preventing tribogeneration (static electricity) on carpets, upholstery and fabrics. It is also appropriate ...

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AEC-Q200 compliant varistor
14 May 2014, Altron Arrow
Littelfuse’s AUMOV varistor offers high surge withstanding capability for low DC voltage automotive electronics applications. The maximum peak surge current is rated up to 5 kA (8/20 μs pulse) to protect ...

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Transient voltage suppressors
14 May 2014, iCorp Technologies
Brightking has released five new over-voltage transient voltage suppressors specifically designed to protect sensitive circuits against inductive load switching and load dump transients, occurring in ...

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SMT ESD protection diodes
14 May 2014, EBV Electrolink
Vishay has developed a new series of surface-mount ESD protection diodes in the low-profile SMF package. For portable electronics, SMFxxA series devices provide high surge capability of 200 W at 10/1000 ...

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Single- and three-phase EMC filters
14 May 2014, Accutronics, Vepac Electronics
TDK announced the introduction of the TDK-Lambda R series of high-performance EMC line filters with convenient connection options. The extensive range of low-profile, single-phase (RS series) and three-phase ...

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Varistors for ESD protection
14 May 2014
TDK has added a new series of EPCOS multilayer varistors to the CeraDiode family, which includes a highly compact and rugged varistor for the ESD protection of mobile equipment. This part has a footprint ...

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ESD-safe polo shirts
23 April 2014, Actum Electronics
Available from Actum Electronics are polo shirts made from static dissipative knitted fabric made up of 47% polyester, 50% cotton and 3% conductive fibres. They are ideal for working environments where ...

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Aluminium pin heatsinks
23 April 2014, Sivan Electronic Supplies
Alutronic has added 48 standard pin heatsinks or Powerblocs to its range for thermal management of processors, ICs, BGA components, LEDs and similar applications. Aluminium’s best possible thermal conductivity ...

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Sunon fans receive plaudits
12 March 2014, MANTECH
Two of Sunon’s new products were recognised with wins in the 22nd annual Taiwan Excellence Awards: the high-lumen LED MR16 lamp active cooling modules series and dustproof, waterproof, IP68 cooling fan. ...

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High-power TVS diodes
12 March 2014, Altron Arrow
The PTVS6-xxxC-TH series of high-current bidirectional TVS diodes from Bourns is designed for use in high-power DC bus clamping applications. The devices offer bidirectional port protection meeting IEC ...

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Resettable fuse
19 February 2014
For hot-plug consumer and industrial products, including external disks, printers and servers, the NIS5132 resettable electronic fuse from Diodes Incorporated helps raise power system reliability by protecting ...

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Open LED protectors
19 February 2014, Altron Arrow
Littelfuse’s PLEDxUx unidirectional open LED protector series provides a switching electronic shunt path when one LED in a string fails as an open circuit. Since LEDs cannot withstand voltages of reverse ...

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Tiny gas discharge tubes
29 January 2014, Altron Arrow
Littelfuse has introduced the SE series of gas discharge tube (GDT) devices in a square, miniature EIA 1206 package, making it the smallest GDT device on the market. Their ultra-low capacitance helps ...

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Polymer PTC resettable fuses
29 January 2014
Bourns announced the launch of the MF-RM series of Multifuse polymer PTC (positive temperature coefficient) resettable fuses. This radial through-hole series is Bourns’ first family of PTCs that can ...

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Bidirectional TVS diode
29 January 2014, Altron Arrow
The ESDAXLC6-1BT2 from STMicroelectronics is a bidirectional, single-line TVS diode designed to protect data lines or other I/O ports against ESD (electrostatic discharge) transients. The device is ideal ...

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ESD protection diodes
29 January 2014, iCorp Technologies
Brightking has released two new ESD protection devices covering a variety of application scenarios. The UAD8C05L01, in a small SOD-882 package, features ultra-low capacitance and low clamping voltage, ...

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Ceramic transient voltage suppressors
29 January 2014, Electrocomp
The Epcos range of ceramic transient voltage suppressors from TDK are voltage-dependent resistors with symmetrical V/I characteristic. Their resistance value decreases with increasing voltage, effectively ...

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High-performance cooling fans
29 January 2014, Communica
The increasing construction of large load circuits for drives and controllers results in the use of larger and higher performance electronic assemblies like IGBTs and similar devices. In these performance ...

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