Power Quality Protection

Batteries and Portable Power

Bosch and Johnson Controls Partner on DC Microgrid

Johnson Controls Distributed Energy Storage (DES) was recently invited by Bosch to provide battery storage for an innovative new electrical power distribution...

Automotive Electronics

PowerAmerica Seeking Help Accelerate GaN and SiC Adoption

The PowerAmerica Institute at N.C. State University, a member of Manufacturing USA, is seeking public input (RFI) on initiatives to accelerate the...

Components

Dimmable LED Driver with Primary Side CC/CV Control and Digital PFC

The NCL30386 from ON Semiconductor is a power factor corrected controller targeting isolated and non−isolated "smart−dimmable" constant−current LED drivers. Designed to support...

Automotive Electronics

AEC-Q101 High-Speed Protectors for Automotive Battery Sensing/Balancing

Bourns announced the release of the Model TBU-DB-Q bidirectional, dual channel, AEC-Q101 compliant high-speed protector for use in automotive battery sensing/balancing applications....

Communications Power

2.5A Supercapacitor Backup Power Manager Demo Board

Demonstration board DC2642A from Analog Devices shows the LTC4041 supercapacitor backup power manager operating with either a stack of two series supercapacitors...

Batteries and Portable Power

Maxwell Reports Financial Struggles in Second Quarter 2018

Maxwell Technologies, Inc. reported financial results for the three months ended June 30, 2018 including total revenues for the second quarter of...

Automotive Electronics

Bel Fuse Reports 27% Increase in Backlog, Sees Sustainable Growth

Bel Fuse Inc. announced preliminary financial results for the second quarter of 2018 including: Net sales of $140.7 million, representing year-over-year growth...

Energy Efficiency

Consortium Issues Plug & Play DER Challenge

A consortium of national labs and nonprofit organizations has announced a call for concepts to engage the smart grid community in demonstrating...

Automotive Electronics

NEC Changing Strategic Focus from Batteries to Micro Grids and Storage Systems

NEC Corporation announced today that NEC has determined to transfer (i) all shares of NEC Energy Devices, Ltd. owned by NEC to...

Batteries and Portable Power

Galvanic-Isolated Gate Driver Controls and Protects SiC or Si Power Transistors

With 26V maximum gate-drive output voltage and optional separate turn-on/turn-off outputs or integrated active Miller clamp, STMicroelectronics‘ STGAP2S single-channel galvanic isolated gate...

Automotive Electronics

AEC-Qualified ESD Diode for Automotive Circuit Protection

ProTek Devices has introduced a new circuit protection diode suited for automotive applications, such as Controller Area Network (CAN) bus lines. The...

Batteries and Portable Power

3-Watt Dual-Output SIP6 DC-DC Converter

Aimtec has introduced its first ever 3-Watt single- and dual-output dc-dc converter in a compact SIP6 package. With a 4:1 ultra-wide input...

European Power News

Eval Board Enables Complete Motor Drive Set-up in One Hour

The Eval-M3-CM615PN from Infineon is a new power board for iMOTION™ Modular Application Design Kit (MADK) that creates a powerful inverter +...

Communications Power

Supercapacitor Backup Power Management System IC

Analog Devices announces the Power by Linear™ LTC4041, a complete supercapacitor backup power management system for 2.9V to 5.5V supply rails that...

Automotive Electronics

Marvell Launches First CISPR 25 Qualified Automotive EMC Lab in North America

Marvell Technology Group Ltd. today announced the grand opening of its automotive electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) lab in North America. The state-of-the-art EMC...