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How IP Technology Helps This College Stadium Stand Out
From: Belden Inc.Description: On college campuses across the country, sports venues—such as football stadiums and basketball arenas—are becoming more than just a place where fans can gather a few times a year to cheer ...
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Weighing Different M12 Termination Methods for CPG Environments
From: Belden Inc.Description: IIoT is set to shape smarter, more responsible operations in the world of consumer packaged goods (CPG). But, as new IIoT and automation strategies are established, it’s easy to underestimate ...
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All You Should Know About Battery Energy Storage Systems
Description: Energy powers the world, literally. Energy is also invisible, yet it's all around us in different forms. It can never be made or destroyed, but its form can be converted and changed. ...
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How to Select the Right Cooling Fan
Description: In many devices and systems, the buildup of heat can lead to reduced performance, prematurely deteriorated components and materials, and increased safety risks. For these reasons, many pieces of ...
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EMI Filters Technical Information
Description: Recent decades have witnessed the rapid growth of computers, business machines, industrial controls, medical electronics equipment and many other devices that utilize digital techniques. Concurrent ...
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AC, DC & EC Fans Safety Information
Description: Avoid contact with the fan motor and blades while the fan is in operation. Operate the fan only if installed and if all protective features are fully functional and all protective guards are attached. ...
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Why Wearables Need Single Cell Solar Panels
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: IoT wearables generate lots of buzz in the tech community, often accompanied by insane projections of exponential growth. Why haven't these projections been realized? Power is a significant hurdle. To ...
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Relentless Copper Prices Continue to Rise
From: Lapp TannehillDescription: Learn the global impacts of why copper prices are rising beyond the wire and cable industry and how manufacturers and distributors are responding to consumers. ...
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Understanding the Difference between Cat5e and Cat6 Ethernet Cabling
From: Lapp TannehillDescription: Since August 2009, when ANSI/TIA-568-C.2 (Balanced Twisted-Pair Telecommunications Cabling and Components Standard) was published, category 5 has been superseded by category 5e and is no longer ...
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How to Select DC Link Capacitor
From: Electrocube, Inc.Description: In power conversion, when AC is converted to low voltage DC, or AC from one frequency to another, the AC is usually rectified and smoothed. Once this is accomplished, the power is then routed to an ...
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MORNSUN Power Supply Solutions for IoT and New Energy Applications
Description: As the "heart" of the electronic system, power supplies need to be more efficient. This is what the MORNSUN LS-R3 and MORNSUN LD-R2 are made for. ...
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Resistor Selection Guide
From: Ohmite Manufacturing Co.Description: A resistor is a device connected into an electrical circuit to introduce a specified resistance. The resistance is measured in ohms. As stated by Ohm’s Law, the current through the resistor will ...
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Resistor Terminology
From: Ohmite Manufacturing Co.Description: An encyclopedia of resistor terminology. ...
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Why Do Capacitors Fail?
From: Electrocube, Inc.Description: Paper and plastic film capacitors are subject to two classic failure modes: opens or shorts. Included in these categories are intermittent opens, shorts or high resistance shorts. In addition to these ...
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Why Glass Transition Temperature Matters In Electronic Encapsulation Applications
From: Ellsworth AdhesivesDescription: Adhesives are often expected to hold up under significant environmental stress. Heat poses unique challenges that can alter the chemistry and durability of a material. One attribute used to better ...
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Reference Project: Wastewater Treatment Plant Aachen-Soers
From: Aerzen USA Corp.Description: What to do when a wastewater treatment plant reaches its maximum expansion limit? ...
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How to Improve the Safety of Medical Device Power System?
Description: Under the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, it is disturbing to everyone in a way. The medical industry is growing rapidly, providing solid support for our fighting against the virus and ...
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How to Size a Solar Panel for an IoT Device
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: Whether powering an outdoor asset tracker or an indoor BLE beacon, understanding the balance between power consumption and power generation is critical to an energy harvesting solution. A properly ...
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MORNSUN 305RAC (Reliable Under All Conditions) AC/DC Selection Guide (2021)
Description: MORNSUN 85-305VAC Input AC/DC converters ensure the stable and reliable performance under almost any harsh conditions. ...
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MORNSUN ACDC Power Supply (Open-Frame) Application Guide (2021)
Description: Before using the power supply, please pay special attention to the following warnings and precautions. Improper installation and operation may cause electric shock, damage to the power supply or fire, ...
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MORNSUN Enclosed Switching Power Supply Application Case
Description: Enclosed Switching Power Supply Applications ...
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MORNSUN Fixed Input Voltage DC-DC Converter Application Guide (2021)
Description: The first step is to confirm specifications of the power supply and then determine a standard power supply module or a customized one according to requested parameters. ...
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MORNSUN PV DC/DC Power Supply Selection Guide (2021)
Description: Power solutions for the Photovoltaic Industry ...
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MORNSUN R4 Series Product User Manual (2021)
Description: One-stop solutions of power supplies. Regulation for moisture sensibility ...
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MORNSUN Wide Input Voltage DC-DC Converter Application Guide (2021)
Description: Selecting a power supply - the first step is to confirm specifications of the power supply and then determine a standard power supply or a customized one according to requested parameters. ...
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All About Power Supply Solutions for PV Solar Tracking Systems
Description: Below, we will explain everything you need to know about solar trackers. We will also review how we at MORNSUN can help you with your solar panel projects. ...
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Know More About the Design of the MORNSUN AC/DC Power Supply LOF550 Series
Description: AC/DC as a primary power supply for the user's entire system is the cornerstone to ensure the stable and efficient operation of the system. With the continuous development and innovation in the power ...
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Specialized Knowledge | How to Select the Output Capacitor and TVS When Designing Power Supply
Description: The power supply is one of the core components in the system, and the stability of output voltage is particularly important. The output capacitor can effectively reduce the output voltage ripple, and ...
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The State of the Global EV Market & EV Charging Stations Power Supply Solutions
Description: In this article, we will examine the status quo of the electric vehicle industry and review how our power supply solutions can help you. ...
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Why You Should Choose the MORNSUN 305RAC AC/DC Converters
Description: Our technical engineers have designed the MORNSUN 305RAC AC/DC Converter Series with your needs in mind. Here below, we will present an overview of the MORNSUN 305RAC product collection and highlight ...
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Custom Cable Case Studies
From: Lapp TannehillDescription: Whether you need an exact specification of a cable or you're combining cables for easier maintenance, custom cables can help meet your specific needs no matter what you're looking for. Here are a few ...
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DC Power Supply Selection Guide
Description: Choosing the right programmable power supply for your test system or application can feel overwhelming if you are not sure of all the considerations involved. This book by EA Elektro-Automatik (EA) ...
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Decoupling Capacitors
Description: Decoupling capacitor is also called uncoupling. The circuit always contained driver and load. If the load capacitance is large, drive circuit should charge and discharge the capacitor to accomplish ...
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How to Select the Appropriate Permanent Magnet Material
Description: There are at least four questions the engineer needs to answer when working on a new magnetic design. 1. What are the magnetic requirements? 2. What are the physical needs of the material? 3. What are ...
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Back to Pathway Basics: Defining Fill, Capacity and Usability
From: Belden Inc.Description: One of the most exciting things about the ICT industry is its pace of change and growth. One of the most challenging things about the ICT industry is its pace of change and growth. (Do you notice a ...
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Protecting Against Surges: Circuitry for DIN Valve Connectors
From: Belden Inc.Description: Just a few months ago, we talked about the intense and growing demands placed on DIN valve connectors in industrial environments. While DIN valve connectors may seem rather insignificant when compared ...
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Why Hasn't Category 7 (and Category 8) Cable Taken Off?
From: Belden Inc.Description: Category 5e, 6 and 6A are Ethernet cable types that the industry knows a lot about; they’re used frequently. But what about Category 7 and 7A—or Category 8? We don’t hear nearly as ...
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Micro and Nano Sensor Interconnections Energize New Applications
Description: Sensors and their capabilities cover a wide range of functions based on the design and type used. Today's sensor menu ranges from thermistors and infrared detectors to shock and vibration monitors and ...
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Guide to Back Probe Connectors
Description: Back probes (also called back pinning) are an alternative method to piercing wire while still avoiding stripping or cutting wire insulation to access the conductor. The back probes needle contact tip ...
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Application Note: Series Connection of Electronic Loads
Description: Series connection of electronic loads requires all involved units to always have equal internal resistance to equally distribute the DC input voltage. That also includes the potential of the DC input ...
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Application Note: Fuel Cell Simulation
Description: The automobile market regarding car models powered by (hydrogen) fuel cells is growing from year to year in the private, bus and transport sector. This application note is supposed to introduce and ...
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Bidirectional Programmable DC Power Supplies Make Battery Testing Easier
Description: In order to keep up with advanced battery technology, manufacturers and users need battery test systems that are flexible and responsive. ...
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Bidirectional Supplies Source and Sink Power
Description: Many test applications require systems that both provide power and consume power. One of the most common applications for this type of functionality is battery testing. ...
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Choosing a Benchtop or Laboratory Power Supply
Description: Choosing the right DC power supply for the lab or your bench is not as easy as it seems. ...
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Efficiently and Easily Test Fuel Cells
Description: Designing and manufacturing quality fuel cells requires characterizing the device and testing device performance ...
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Repurposing and Recycling EV Batteries
Description: As they become more widely used, there is a question of how best to re-use or recycle the lithium-ion batteries that power these vehicles. ...
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Simulate Batteries with the EA Battery Simulator
Description: There are many advantages to simulating batteries when testing battery-powered equipment, battery chargers, or battery-management systems during design and production tests ...
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Some Frequently-Asked Questions About Electronic Loads
Description: Electronic loads are versatile instruments that are used in a wide variety of applications, but their operation is often misunderstood. ...
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Use EA's Arbitrary Function Generator to Output Custom Voltage or Current Waveforms
Description: Many Elektro-Automatik programmable power supplies feature a software-based function generator that can generate typical functions, such as sine, square, and triangle waves, and apply them to either ...
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What is Autoranging?
Description: "Autoranging" is the term used to describe the ability of a programmable DC source to maintain full power output across a wider range of output voltages and currents than traditional DC power supplies ...
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What Power Supply Trends Exist in the Semiconductor Market?
Description: As the semiconductor industry begins to heat up in 2021, at least according to Semiconductor Industry Association’s optimistic forecasts device demand, test engineers are going to need to find ...
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What's the Best AC Input for your DC Power Supply?
Description: The first step in choosing a DC power supply is determining how much output power you will need. ...
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Benefits of Using Thin-Film Solar With A Flexible PC Board
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: Integrating solar panels into a printed circuit board can make life a lot easier for product designers. What if the product design you are working on requires a PCB to be flexible? Luckily flexible ...
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Solar Energy Harvesting For IoT Explained
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: Batteries are required for nearly every electronic device, it seems. They allow for simple operation and quick deployment. What happens when those batteries die? In this post we discuss the ...
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An Overview at MORNSUN's AC/DC Enclosed SMPS Solutions
Description: Mornsun Switch-mode power supplies (SMPS) can be found in most battery-operated equipment where high efficiency and small sizes are required. AC-DC switched-mode power supplies are omnipresent around ...
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3 Important Data Center Power Considerations
From: Belden Inc.Description: Power keeps your data center infrastructure functioning—but power also impacts how much it costs to do so. The more efficiently you can use power, the lower you can expect your data ...
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3 Types of Procurement: How They Impact Cabling Projects
From: Belden Inc.Description: To help project managers effectively oversee cabling projects, Belden is in the process of creating virtual training and education for this group of professionals. As we pull the content together, ...
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5 Ways Cabling & Connectivity Impact Data Center Sustainability
From: Belden Inc.Description: There are many other factors to consider when thinking about what makes a data center truly sustainable, regardless of when it was designed or built. Some of the decisions you make about cabling and ...
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Data Buses Aren't Going Anywhere Anytime Soon!
From: Belden Inc.Description: If you ask the technology professionals who are focused solely on Industry 4.0 and digital transformation, they may tell you that the data bus is dead. Why would they say this? They’re likely ...
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How We Make Custom Connectivity Solutions
From: Belden Inc.Description: Working with a partner that owns its research, development and manufacturing processes has many advantages: better communication, the ability to react to the market quickly, rapid testing and lower ...
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Additive Manufacturing for Heat Pipes
From: BoydDescription: This paper introduces additive manufactured (AM) heat pipes and other advanced thermal management technologies, previously presented as a Keynote Lecture at the 16th UK Heat Transfer Conference at the ...
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Choosing the Right Type of Cable Shielding
From: Lapp TannehillDescription: You may need help choosing the right type of cable shielding... or you need to figure out what your options actually are. ...
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Industrial Ethernet: Rapid Market Growth Through 2026
From: Lapp TannehillDescription: According to a recently released market report, Industrial Ethernet grew rapidly in 2020 and is expected to continue well into 2026 due to changing automation demands. ...
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Optimizing the Lifetime of High-Flex Cables
From: Lapp TannehillDescription: High-flex cables can often be damaged, or corkscrewed, if components in a cable track system are not installed correctly. Learn how to address cable longevity. ...
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Single Pair Ethernet: The Future of Industrial Communication
From: Lapp TannehillDescription: See why Single Pair Ethernet (SPE) is the Industrial Ethernet Network technology that's surpassing legacy Fieldbus networks and traditional commercial Ethernet. ...
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Understanding Dynamic Load-Bearing Capacity in Cable Chains
From: Lapp TannehillDescription: Understanding dynamic load-bearing capacity in electrical cable assembly for industrial applications is a sought-after goal of many electricians and engineers. ...
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How to Improve the Reliability of High Speed Slip Ring?
Description: Signal Slip Rings Ethernet Slip Rings USB Slip rings Profi-Bus Slip Rings HDMI High Definition Slip Rings Servo-motor Slip rings Thermocouple Slip rings Function Slip Rings High Speed Slip Rings ...
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Enhance Overvoltage Protection with the IEC 62368-1 Standard
From: Littelfuse, Inc.Description: Learn more about the new IEC 62368-1 standard, what tests are included in the standard, and how the standard allows for greater safety and design innovation. ...
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White Paper: New Connector Designs Solves Defense Industry Electronics Evolution
Description: Advanced defense instrumentation and technologies are evolving rapidly to stay ahead of competitive systems around the world. Adaptation of leading discrete components, new hardware and high speed ...
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Micro-D and Nano-D Connectors: Key Interconnects for Military Reliability
Description: Micro-D and Nano-D connectors are becoming a staple of military/ aerospace industry by providing high reliability connector designs used in aircraft and missile control to autonomous weapons in the ...
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Standard Circuit Board Micro-D Connectors Solve Density and Signal Performance Needs for High Speed Digitization
Description: A design solution using Micro-D and or Nano-D connectors provide a SWAP type upgrade to existing board layouts and insures needed real estate between leads to maintain impedance control, or current ...
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Miniature Connector Design for Severe Applications
Description: Electronic equipment in today's defense industry is being driven forward with highly capable advanced technologies. ...
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Evolution of Circular Connectors for Rugged Portability in Today's UAVs
Description: UAV electronics is rapidly expanding to serve new devices mounted onboard airborne autonomous systems. Advanced sensors, tracking devices attitude management have extended our reach, our capability ...
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Flex Versus Wired?
Description: Products often start their life as a put together solution to accomplish the goal in the shortest path possible. Although this path does help to create and build the concept, it may not be the most ...
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Increasing Density in Defense Electronic Systems
Description: Defense development technologies and strategies are locked into an international race for dominance, control and security protection. Effective EW (electronic warfare) systems are dependent upon ...
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Micro and Nano-miniature Connector Experts for Defense and Aerospace Customers
Description: When Engineers set about developing ultra-lightweight electronic systems for defense and aerospace equipment, small connectors always feature heavily in the design process ...
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The Digital Transformation in Centralized Defense Systems on the Battlefield
Description: In support of signal collection and signal routing, Omnetics' NAnoconnector family of products are specifically designed for high-density applications in military and aerospace. ...
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Multispectral Imaging Systems for Space, Military and Commercial Applications
Description: Multiphoton imaging techniques and camera systems are serving industries with immediate definition improvements for a wide range of applications. Advanced devices utilize multi-spectrum cameras able ...
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Fans for Wind: Industrial Solutions for Alternative Energy
From: Rosenberg USADescription: Wind turbines that are used for power generation have numerous applications for cooling fans. Although fans are fundamentally selected on the basis of volumetric air flow, static pressure and size, ...
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Industrial Fans for the Rumble of Railways
From: Rosenberg USADescription: The railway transportation industry has numerous applications for cooling fans. Although fans are fundamentally selected on the basis of volumetric air flow, static pressure and size, numerous other ...
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Application Note for Membrane Switches for Demanding Applications
From: SCHURTER IncDescription: SCHURTER has a long tradition in the development and manufacturing of customized membrane switches for demanding applications. Based on our know-how, we find the optimal solution even for challenging ...
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How to Connect Flexible Solar To a PC Board
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: PV cells have the potential to supplement power to a wide range of IoT and battery-powered electronics. These devices are often compact and connecting a PV cell directly to the embedded PCB circuitry ...
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What is a PCR Workstation?
From: AirClean SystemsDescription: What is a PCR workstation? They have so many functions and uses, it can be hard to really understand what makes a PCR workstation and to know whether or not you need one for your application. Once you ...
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White Paper: High Altitude Connectors
From: SCHURTER IncDescription: 2000 metres. This altitude above sea level represents the upper limit for applications of many passive components certified according to IEC. Why this limit? A little excursus into physics, more ...
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White Paper: Preassembled Fuse Holders
From: SCHURTER IncDescription: In the case of mixed assembly of SMT and THT components on a printed circuit board, the questions are raised: two soldering processes? Manual assembly? Is there something more effective? Yes, there ...
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White Paper: Touchless Switch
From: SCHURTER IncDescription: Please, do not touch! Because that doesn't have to be the case at all. A new generation of switches for touchless switching has been developed for exactly this purpose. Switching without touching. ...
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Magnets Speed up Production
Description: Permanent and electro-magnets play a crucial role in many automated and semi-automated manufacturing plants. ...
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Chillers & Sub-Ambient Cooling
From: BoydDescription: This paper addresses current trends in liquid cooled systems and focuses on chiller use and applications. This includes chiller standards and design guidelines for utilizing chillers to increase ...
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Crossover Audio Capacitors
From: Electrocube, Inc.Description: Why is a Speaker Crossover Needed? ...
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Electric Guitar & Bass Tone Capacitors
From: Electrocube, Inc.Description: Electronic components to obtain vintage sound ...
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Polycarbonate Capacitors Are No Longer Available... What Are Our Options?
From: Electrocube, Inc.Description: Polycarbonate capacitors are no longer available - What are your options? ...
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How to Specify Customised Metal Electronic Enclosures
From: METCASEDescription: Electronic enclosures manufactured from folded aluminum have a significant advantage over their plastic and diecast counterparts when it comes to customization - much lower tooling costs. No full ...
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Wind Energy Needs Lightweight Giants
From: Busch Vacuum SolutionsDescription: It looks like you are using an old version of the Microsoft Edge browser. To get the best experience with the Busch website, please update your browser. The huge mill blades of modern wind turbines ...
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Application Note: Current Carrying Capability of Solder and Press-fit Pins
From: Vincotech GmbHDescription: This application note investigates the current carrying capability of a standard solder able pin and a Press-fit pin for Vincotech's power modules. The measurements are carried out on an application ...
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Getting a Cleaner Future
From: Vincotech GmbHDescription: Renewable Energy is the key to a cleaner future and solar energy is leading the way. Designers of solar inverters face a multidimensional challenge to ensure solar power continues to meet the growing ...
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Handling of Power Modules with Phase-Change Material
From: Vincotech GmbHDescription: There are several advantages to using phase-change material (PCM) rather than conventional thermal grease as thermal interface material (TIM) between the power module and heatsink. Vincotech offers ...
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How to Achieve Clean, Streamlined Cable Bays for Matrix Switches
From: Belden Inc.Description: If you've ever been involved with a mid- to large-scale fiber optic video distribution or KVM (keyboard, video, mouse) extension application, you know that managing fiber cable in the back of matrix ...
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How You Inspire Our Cabling & Connectivity Innovations
From: Belden Inc.Description: As we face a future where technology like IoT, 5G and virtual reality are taking data volumes and data rates to new levels, data centers and enterprise networks are facing challenges unlike ever ...
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E-Mobility: Sustainable Battery Recycling with EA Electric Automatic
Description: E-mobility is booming. In 2020, the global fleet of electrically powered vehicles rose to 10.9 million, powered by lithium-ion batteries. However, with increasing operating time, the lithium-ion ...
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Electronic Circuit Breakers Provide Smarter Protection
From: Automationdirect.comDescription: New technologies deliver higher performance and advanced monitoring and control capabilities as compared to traditional fuses and circuit breakers. ...