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COMEX vs Omega-Camden Copper Prices
From: Lapp TannehillDescription: Given the metal's popularity its escalating value in the last several years, manufacturers, suppliers, and distributors are constantly keeping copper pricing up-to-date for their partners, ...
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Digital Tools for Finding and Buying Panel Components
From: ABB Inc.Description: The pandemic greatly increased the use by manufacturers and distributors of digital and online tools to stay in touch with customers. Panel builders are using these digital tools for finding and ...
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FAQ: Why Did the Manufacturer/Distributor Ship Me More/Less Than the Wire or Cable Quantity I Ordered?
From: Lapp TannehillDescription: Understand more on why you may receive more or less of a wire or cable than you originally ordered and what to do if you need an exact quantity. ...
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How to Create a Wire and Cable Materials Cost Savings Matrix
From: Lapp TannehillDescription: Procurement Specialists, Purchasing Managers, Materials Buyers, and Chief Procurement Officers are constantly on the lookout to reduce material costs when it relates to the purchasing department. ...
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Power Circuit Breaker Ratings Explained
From: ABB Inc.Description: When selecting the right low voltage power circuit breaker for an application, it is important to consider both short-circuit current ratings and short-time current ratings. Understanding these ...
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Renewables Generate Opportunities
From: ABB Inc.Description: Both residential and commercial customers are increasingly turning to renewable energy sources that's creating huge demand for energy storage systems. Panel shops should be looking at how they can be ...
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Selecting Control Panel Components
From: ABB Inc.Description: The latest panel technology often offers big benefits. But depending on the application, the older technology may be better. Here are some factors to consider when selecting control panel components ...
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The Power of Panels that Can Talk
From: ABB Inc.Description: Try to imagine doing business today without your cell phone. You probably can't. In the same way, panel builders using communication-enabled devices like breakers and automatic transfer switches can't ...
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Throw Away Your Relays
From: ABB Inc.Description: If you appreciate the wisdom of combining the fax, scan, and copy functions into a single device, the benefits of combining the function of relays and meters in your breakers should be crystal clear. ...
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White Paper: Ruggedized Ethernet Cables for Automobiles
From: Lapp TannehillDescription: The future of automobiles and how we drive is constantly changing and changing rapidly. The following white paper will highlight the importance of Champlain rugged Ethernet cables to help provide ...
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Why are Prices Skyrocketing in Wire & Cable Products?
From: Lapp TannehillDescription: Why Cost Increases for Copper, Silver, and Raw Materials are Leading to Higher Prices ...
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3 Things to Think About When Selecting an Automatic Transfer Switch
From: ABB Inc.Description: The automatic transfer switch has moved from a relatively mundane role in power distribution and control systems to being a major player. Read about three traits to consider to ensure you select the ...
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Boost the Reliability of Your Backup-Power Control System
From: ABB Inc.Description: Facility managers with backup-power systems are like skydivers; they can't know if the backup actually works until they need it. Using smart devices in power-control-system panels greatly increases ...
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Characteristics of Slip Rings for Airborne Equipment
Description: As a technology intensive mechanical engineering industry, modern aircraft are usually equipped with various kinds of high-tech equipment. And among these edged equipment, most demand the application ...
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Repair or Replace Your Switchgear Lineup: Four Things to Consider
From: ABB Inc.Description: Repair or replace? It's a question repeatedly faced by plant engineers and maintenance managers. For power distribution equipment, there are four important considerations when making that decision. ...
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Smarter Breakers Enable Higher-Performing Panels
From: ABB Inc.Description: Some panel builders are content to offer traditional, serviceable designs. Others position themselves as higher-value providers, offering panels with more functions and performance. They often achieve ...
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Streamlining Panel Design Equals Higher SCCR
From: ABB Inc.Description: Panels with higher AIC / SCCR ratings provide superior safety, helping protect employees and equipment while avoiding production losses and scrap. OEM machine builders and panel builders can pursue ...
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Whitepaper: Key Specifications, Ratings, and Applications of Industrial Inductors
Description: The industrial market is challenging for electronics. Industrial rated components need to have a wider operating temperature range and are expected to operate with a high level of reliability, without ...
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Why the Increased Need for Surge Protection?
From: ABB Inc.Description: Surge protection devices are evolving from being "accessories" toward "necessities." Learn why more OEMs and panel builders are making the smart move to include these devices in their designs. ...
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Low Inrush Transformers
From: Majestic Transformer Co.Description: A client recently approached Majestic Transformer Co, facing significant issues with inrush start-up currents in conventional transformers. These issues were particularly pronounced in long cable ...
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Case Study 2 - Oil Rig Transformer
From: Majestic Transformer Co.Description: Custom Transformers Three Phase Transformers Single Phase Transformers Single Phase Open Frame Control Transformers Three Phase Open Frame Transformers Rectifier Power Transformers High Frequency, ...
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What are Rail Brakes and When Should You Use Them?
Description: The servo and stepper motors that drive linear motion systems often include a braking function, or, in the case of stepper motors, detent torque that helps prevent the motor (and, therefore, the load) ...
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Automotive Switching Basics
From: Waytek, Inc.Description: Switches-whether they're toggles or rockers, push-button or disconnect-are found in every 12-volt electrical system, doing everything from turning on lights to moderating critical systems. To ...
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Wet Stacking Prevention Technologies for CAT® 3500 Diesel Generator Sets
Description: What is wet stacking and what causes it? What technologies has Caterpillar implemented to help prevent wet stacking? This paper answers these questions while explaining the cylinder cutout strategies ...
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Connectors Serve Unique Medical Device Technologies
Description: Dramatic increase in the use of handheld digital stethoscopes, scanners, lasers, and pain management products depend on great connector and cables. With the evolution of new sensors and haptic ...
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Overmolding Connector and Cable Assemblies
Description: Today's cable and connector systems are now capable of withstanding the most demanding environmental challenges, thanks to advancements in overmolded materials and processing techniques. Various cable ...
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Connecting UAVs
Description: Defence-focused unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems range from larger aircraft formats (such as the Predator) designed to provide longrange autonomous surveillance missions, to very modern designs ...
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Powerful Miniature PZN Connector Delivers High Density Circuitry
Description: Highly portable electronic instruments must be compact, lightweight and rugged for use in applications from military, aerospace, robotics, sensors, surveillance and medical systems. Connector and ...
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Connector to Cable Design: Key Considerations For Use in Aerospace and Defense Systems
Description: As speeds go up and voltages decrease, signal integrity design and management is critical to the functions needed in Military and Aerospace. Digital signal quality is more often assured by using ...
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GPS Defense Applications and Protection of Precise Point Positioning
Description: Advanced GPS systems have opened the world with exciting and exacting new technologies ranging from global surveying and reconnaissance to remote guidance and positioning of unmanned systems. Packages ...
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AC-DC Power Supply
From: Powertronix Inc.Description: Powertronix offers AC to DC Linear Power Supplies in both regulated and unregulated configurations. ...
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Insulation & Shielding
From: Powertronix Inc.Description: POWERTRONIX toroidal transformers are constructed with reinforced insulation and withstand 4,000 V RMS for 1 minute. Minimum creepage distance is 8 mm. ...
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Primary Transformer Configurations
From: Powertronix Inc.Description: POWERTRONIX Transformer can be provided with several primary windings configuration. ...
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Regulation & Temperature Rise
From: Powertronix Inc.Description: When the load is intermittent and the duty cycle is much shorter than the transformer's thermal time constant (which is several hours), a smaller transformer can be used. ...
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White Paper - The Benefits of Utilizing a Heat Sink at a Higher Temperature
Description: The question is: should one strive for a hotter or a cooler heat sink? Is a hot heat sink a good thing or a bad thing? Should one worry when the heat sink is hot? How hot is too hot, and how hot is ...
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AC/DC Converter 305RAC Family: 305 Input Reliable Under All Conditions
Description: New requirements for AC/DC power supplies continue to emerge in the changing market, and conventional 264V input AC/DC power supplies have been difficult to meet all conditions. The MORNSUN "305RAC ...
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What You Need to Know About Indoor Solar
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: Indoor solar is somewhat of an oxymoron. How can a solar panel work without sunlight? Solar panels, or Photovoltaics (PV), work via the photoelectric effect, which converts light into electricity. ...
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A Basic Guide to Circuit Breaker Types
From: Waytek, Inc.Description: Circuit breakers are increasingly being used instead of fuses for transportation equipment of all types. Circuit breakers have many virtues: They're more durable, they're easier to reset and replace, ...
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Fuses 101: What You Need to Know
From: Waytek, Inc.Description: While circuit breakers are becoming more prominent in 12-volt system design, the fuse remains a common, and useful, technology. If you're not up on your fuses, here's an overview of where they fit ...
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Guide to Successful Dual Voltage Systems
From: Waytek, Inc.Description: Dual voltage electrical systems solve many power requirement problems in today's trucks, buses and motor coaches, but like any specialized technology, dual voltage establishes its own rules. ...
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How to Choose Between Battery Isolators and Separators
From: Waytek, Inc.Description: Controlling parasitic loads (battery drain) and properly distributing electrical power is crucial to keeping vehicles working. However, this requires balancing the needs of the battery against those ...
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Can You Convert AWG to the Metric System?
From: Lapp TannehillDescription: The AWG is the U.S. standard for wire and cable gauge measurements. Read the article to learn more about converting AWG to the metric system for use outside the U.S. ...
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Requirement You Need to Know About Power Supply Design in Charging Stations
Description: 1. Charging Stations Market Prospect under the New Infrastructure Construction The charging station is the "energy station" of the new energy automobiles. According to a research report (Source: KBV ...
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Excessive Heat or Frigid Cold, These Custom Cable Materials will Withstand the Most Extreme Temperatures
From: LEMO USA, Inc.Description: This article will walk through a few of the key custom cable design considerations for selecting appropriate materials that will ensure reliable performance despite the harsh environment in which it ...
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The Story of 4-Wire Measurement
From: TEGAM, Inc.Description: It is common knowledge in industry that 4-wire measurement is the preferred method for resistances under 1 O but what makes it so advantageous over 2- and 3- wire measurement? Let's look at how the ...
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Advanced Defense Helicopter Interconnection Systems
Description: Military helicopters are packing serious upgrades throughout their capabilities from new composite rotor blades and upgraded motor systems to utilizing the most recent sensors and electronics ...
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Rugged, Compact Nano Connectors for a Portable World
Description: Robotic device designers have a world of opportunities to build or operate new equipment that can offer repeated precision processes and significantly reduce handling costs. Automated machinery is ...
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Robotics' Small and Rugged Interconnection Systems
Description: Robotic applications are being applied to industrial, military and everyday applications throughout the world. Many types of advanced sensors have stimulated a whole new way of designing equipment. ...
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High Density Electronic Interconnects For Satellites
Description: Revolutionary designs and low-profile stacking make for more efficient satellites and add new opportunities in space. Evolving from the simple cubesat and the Mars Curiosity era, we are seeing ...
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Micro-D Connector Versions Adjust to Fit Many New Design Challenges!
Description: The evolution of high technology electronics is rapidly moving in the direction of miniaturization and high density. Designing the Micro-D connector for many formats and functions to support military ...
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How to Design Miniature Connectors for Rugged Performance
Description: When designing connectors for ruggedized performance, the best guide available as an engineer is to use the application as the guide to steer the design. In this instance the discussion will be ...
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Air Movement Equipment: Auto Industry Applications, Case Studies, and Recommendations
Description: With critical features like resistance to temperature extremes, our diverse auto fans have several applications within the automotive industry that already exist and more continue to emerge. As ...
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Food and Beverage Industry Applications
Description: Guidelines for food processing and storage can vary from product to product, but several central tenets govern the proper processing and storage of products intended for human or animal consumption. ...
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Smart Building: 4 Technology Disruptions Set to Change Cabling and Connectivity
From: Belden Inc.Description: We rounded up a short list of four technology disruptions that Belden is monitoring closely and think you should be, too. ...
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Smart Building: Cable Considerations for AV over IP
From: Belden Inc.Description: Using Ethernet to distribute audio and video is moving into the mainstream to support digital communications and content. Today, Ethernet has become the global standard for transmitting digital ...
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Top 4 Benefits of EC Fans
Description: This blog post will discuss the four primary benefits offered by electronically commuted fans. ...
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The Importance of Reliability in Thermal Controls for Medical Equipment
Description: This Whitepaper touches on ways to build more reliability into essential equipment used in hospitals, assisted living facilities and medical clinics. Acknowledging the dire results from catastrophic ...
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NRG Digital Solid State Relays
Description: This paper explains the NRG concept and how it fits into today's changing market, the importance of real-time monitoring, how data from the NRG can reduce unplanned machine downtime and concludes by ...
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Thin Molypermalloy Applications for Electromagnetic Shielding
Description: Arnold Magnetic Technologies - Precision Thin Metals Division can roll Molypermalloy as thin as 0.00008" (0.002 mm). Thin Molypermalloy can be used in a variety of applications, but its high magnetic ...
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4 Steps to Save on Wire and Cable Material Costs
From: Lapp TannehillDescription: If you're in manufacturing and looking to save money in purchasing and procurement for wire, cable, connectors, and other electrical materials for your engineers, then you're not alone. ...
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Notice of NEMA WC27500 Revision Change
From: Lapp TannehillDescription: NEMA WC27500 is the widely used Standard for Aerospace and Industrial Electric Cable replacing the obsolete MIL-DTL-27500 in 2001. NEMA released an update to the standard at the end of 2020 taking to ...
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The Industry-Standard +/-10% Tolerance on Cable Runs
From: Lapp TannehillDescription: Why did the manufacturer/distributor ship me more/less than the wire or cable quantity I ordered? ...
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How are Magnets Made?
Description: We fabricate and custom-produce a comprehensive line of permanent magnets and precision assemblies specific to design requirements in a number of markets, including: aerospace & defense, medical ...
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Combined Heat and Power and A Changing Climate: Reducing Emissions and Improving Resilience
Description: The global climate is changing, and many are working to reduce emissions and build up resiliency across sectors, including electricity generation, transportation, industry, and commercial and ...
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Advancements in High Reliability Interconnection Systems: Miniaturization of Connectors for the New High Speed Digital Electronics
Description: This white paper reviews the improvements and changes needed to serve a very rapid demand for modernized interconnection and wiring systems that serve the new electronic applications in defense, space ...
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WHITE PAPER: Cable Products for Carbonated Drinks
From: Lapp TannehillDescription: The food and beverage industry adheres to very strict hygienic practices to reduce the risk of contamination and surfaces are frequently treated with aggressive cleaning agents and hot steam. Cables, ...
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Cable Covers for All Your Holiday Decorations
From: CheckersDescription: Part of the reason people seem to enjoy the holidays so much is because of all the wonderful decorations. Candy canes line the driveways, luminous deer can be seen grazing in the front yard, there's ...
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Testing Ensures Quality Cable But Limits Length
From: PIC Wire & CableDescription: Although customers might wish for a cable of unlimited length, two reasons limit the spool length of real-world products: Manufacturing materials and practical manufacturing constraints. To ensure the ...
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A Look at the Latest Trends in High-Reliability Markets
Description: In this second video, Matt Guise, High Reliability Segment Market Leader, tackles some of the latest trends that are driving technology development in high-reliability markets, such as aerospace, life ...
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Dual-band Photoresists for Better HDI PCB Yield and Productivity
Description: Continuing advances in equipment and materials are necessary to support high-density interconnect (HDI) printed circuit boards (PCBs) with ever-increasing feature densities. ...
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Do Complex Cable Problems Always Require Complex Solutions? (We Say 'No!')
From: Belden Inc.Description: When you've got a challenge on your hands-compatibility issues, unexpected downtime, cable congestion or difficult moves, adds and changes-what do you do? Where do you start? ...
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Do You Know What It Takes to Pull Category Cable for AV Projects?
From: Belden Inc.Description: Pulling category cable for AV projects is easy ... right? The answer is "yes" - as long as you follow some simple guidelines! Like many low-voltage cables, the electrical performance of a category ...
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Modular Connectivity Leads to More Flexibility and Major Labor Savings
From: Belden Inc.Description: With so much changing very quickly in manufacturing, sometimes it's easy to overlook just how far technology has come. Five or six decades ago, for example, most component cables and wires were ...
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What the Move Toward Leaf-Spine Architecture Means for Data Center Cabling
From: Belden Inc.Description: As technology advances, more data center traffic is moving from server to server instead of moving in and out of the data center. ...
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Capacitor Types and Performance
From: Newark, An Avnet CompanyDescription: This article examines capacitors, and the meaning of electrical capacitance. It then looks at the properties - in addition to capacitance - that define the components' performance and impact on its ...
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Controlling Acid Gas Mists
Description: New and strict regulations in metallurgical plants worldwide are restricting particulate and acid gas emissions to extremely low levels. Because of that, sulphuric acid plants are being installed to ...
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Gas Cleaning
Description: An Integral Step in Biomass Gasification ...
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Sourcing Sulfur
Description: Sulfuric acid is a major industrial chemical used to produce end products, such as fibers, chemical compounds, paints, detergents, and dyes. The most abundant amount of sulfuric acid production is ...
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Wet Electrostatic Precipitators
Description: A preferred Technology for Emission Control ...
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Wet Electrostatic Precipitators: The Proven Technology for Sulfuric Acid Gas Cleaning
Description: Since the wet electrostatic precipitator (WESP) achieved emission control of gas streams by removing up to 99.9% of the submicron particulate matter, it was evident the WESP system would be a perfect ...
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Requirements for Wind Energy SVG Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors
Description: For SVG DC capacitors, the capacitor core is installed in the shell, and there is a filler between the capacitor core and the shell. The shell is located on the upper part of the capacitor core with a ...
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Moisture Control Requirements for Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors
Description: In the process of material storage and production of electrolytic capacitors, the moisture of electrolytic capacitors is controlled, which directly affects the production efficiency of the product, ...
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The Role of Electrolytic Capacitors
Description: Turn the sawtooth wave after rectification into a smooth pulsating wave, which is close to DC. In the power circuit, the rectifier circuit turns the AC into a pulsating DC, and a larger capacity ...
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High Performance Machine Design Considerations
Description: This article will discuss design considerations and challenges for electric machines and how new materials can help improve their performance and efficiency. ...
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How to Select Appropriate O-ring
Description: In the market, there are three kinds of typical material for o-ring: NBR, VMQ(SILICONE), FKM. ...
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Our Custom Solar Design Process
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: Inspiration can strike at a moment's notice. One minute you're at a cafe sipping coffee and reading a magazine when all of a sudden, the lightbulb turns on, and your next great product idea is born. ...
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What Features are Most Important for Energy Harvesting PMICs?
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: Energy Harvesting Power Management ICs (EH PMIC) are critical components of energy-autonomous electronics. They connect PV, energy storage, and the load ensuring power flows efficiently between all ...
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What is Magnetic Moment?
Description: Magnetic dipole moment, often simply called magnetic moment, is a measurement of a magnetic dipole's ability to turn itself into alignment with a given external magnetic field. The magnitude of the ...
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Advantages and Disadvantages of Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors
Description: Self-healing refers to the ability of the electrolytic capacitor to recover itself and prevent avalanche breakdown when there are some small problems in the medium during operation. 2. Aluminum ...
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Electrolytic Capacitor Manufacturing Process
Description: In order to increase the contact area between the aluminum foil and the electrolyte, the appearance of the aluminum foil in the capacitor is not smooth. Instead, the appearance of the aluminum foil is ...
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Capacitor Charging and Discharging
Description: A capacitor is a passive device that stores energy in the form of an electric field. When necessary, the capacitor can release the stored energy into the circuit. The capacitor consists of two ...
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Capacitor Classification
Description: According to whether the capacitance can be adjusted, it can be divided into fixed capacitor, variable capacitor and trimmer capacitor. According to the purpose, it can be divided into coupling ...
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Glossary of Cable Terms
From: Lapp TannehillDescription: Glossary of Cable terms ...
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Tray-Rated Cable 101
From: Lapp TannehillDescription: What makes a tray-rated cable different from a standard multi-conductor? ...
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Important Indicators of Capacitors
Description: The capacity of the capacitor is the capacity of the stored charge. The basic unit of capacity is farad (F), we commonly use microfarad (μF), picofarad (pF) and other units (the conversion ...
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How to Choose Between a Relay, Solenoid, and Contactor
From: Waytek, Inc.Description: Relays, solenoids, and contactors are all switches-whether electro-mechanical or solid state-but there are critical differences that make each suitable for different applications. In this article, we ...
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Several Precautions for Electrolytic Capacitor Selection
Description: The electrolytic capacitor has a relatively large volume, large series resistance, large inductance, and sensitivity to temperature. It is suitable for occasions where the temperature changes little ...
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CopperECO - the Economical Solution for Transmitting High Currents During Standstill
From: Conductix-WampflerDescription: Conductix-Wampfler introduces innovative conductive material for conductor rails ...
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RSBS Series Single-phase Compressor Soft Starters
Description: Carlo Gavazzi has launched the RSBS series, a compact, single-phase soft-starter. The RSBS is designed for single-phase compressors and is an ideal solution in single phase voltage networks that are ...
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Amorphous vs Crystalline: The Best Technology For Your Application
From: PowerFilm, Inc.Description: In the age of portable electronics, companies need unique ways to power products that enhance value, lead to a great customer experience and make business sense. Often grid power is unavailable, and ...