What is not to love about LED lighting? A simple swipe of an app can turn the ambience of our homes from calming zen temples, to flashing multi-color 1970 discos. Such fun features are not …
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Tips on Selecting the Right AC Power Line Protection for Industrial Applications
The reliability of industrial-based power systems and communication lines can be threatened by a variety of potential electrical issues such as power surges or nearby lightning strikes as well as the large motors or other …
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Tips on Meeting Power Supply Efficiency and Safety Requirements
Power conversion, isolation, overvoltage/overcurrent protection and accurate current measurement are requirements in virtually all power supply designs. These capabilities are necessary to help increase reliability and reduce downtime, but are also required for regulatory compliance …
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Why You Should Upgrade Your AC Power Line Protection
Most overvoltage protection of AC power lines is cost driven and typically employs the bare minimum of protection strategies. But there are plenty of power designs that require solid protection to avoid costly warranty returns …
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The Importance of Accurate GDT Capacitance Value Testing
While Gas Discharge Tubes (GDTs) are a popular choice to protect high frequency circuits in electronic equipment, there are many circuits that can be sensitive to capacitance. This issue can definitely affect filter or input …
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Thermal Protection in the Metaverse
The lines of distinction between science fiction and science reality are blurring with the emergence of the Metaverse. This simulated digital world is the culmination of some of the latest trends in cutting edge technology. …
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Li-Ion Batteries Thirst for Electrolyte
The desert scene in the 1960s spaghetti western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” shows the desperation of Clint Eastwood’s character as Eli Wallach’s Tuco dumps the precious water he craves onto the desert …
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Power and Signal Line Magnetics: What’s the Right Part for My Design?
We’ve been there before, uncertain as to what makes one part work better than another, and whether the technology solution we are considering has the features needed for the task at hand. Sure, when you …
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The Power of Mentoring
The Big Brothers Big Sisters organization believes all youth have potential and that mentors provide the power to ignite and unlock that potential. That is why Bourns has supported the Big Brothers Big Sisters of …
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Trade-Offs in Flyback Transformers
How can you balance the trade-offs of size, efficiency and power loss when choosing a transformer in designs that demand the best of each? Flyback transformers, for instance, offer multiple outputs for efficiency and flexibility, …
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