Power

Rack mount AC-DC UPS Series from Powersolve provides up to 300Watts DC output power

Power supply specialist Powersolve announces the PFD Series, a “no break” power system designed to provide constant DC power without interruption. These are 1U, 19in rack mount units designed to provide 12, 24 or 48VDC from an input voltage of 180 to 264VAC (50/60Hz). Models in the PFD Series provide …

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Block 4D PowerCoil – the new dimension of performance optimisation of inductive wound products

BLOCK, a global leader in the field of power supply interfacing, announces the introduction of its PowerCoil edgewise winding technology which provides unprecedented variability in the design of inductive wound products. State-of-the-art technology has been specially developed and constructed to produce this new type of winding design which offers designers …

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Digital power system manager enables conversion efficiency monitoring

Analog Devices announces the Power by Linear LTC2972, a 2-channel power system manager, featuring current, power and energy monitoring of the intermediate bus input to point-of-load (POL) converters. Monitoring circuit board power and energy use is a prerequisite for managing, optimising and reducing their consumption in order to lower server …

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The Schaffner Group introduces ecosine active sync series, the new generation of modular, compact, effective and reliable active harmonic filters

Schaffner, the international leader in the field of electromagnetic compatibility and power quality, is again setting a benchmark with its product offering for harmonics mitigation solutions. ecosine active sync utilises superior technology to reliably mitigate excessive harmonics with an evolutionary modular product concept. With the new ecosine active sync filters …

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How soldiers power their military devices

Today’s combat soldiers can often carry up to 100 pounds (45kg) of gear, which may need to be carried through the most extreme environmental conditions for up to 48 hours or more. Here, J.D. DiGiacomandrea, applications engineering manager at military batteryspecialist Ultralife Corporation, explains the company’s pioneering involvement in the …

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Adoption of Intel FPGAs for acceleration of enterprise workloads goes mainstream

Intel announced top-tier OEM adoption of Intel’s field programmable gate array (FPGA) acceleration in their server lineup. This is the first major use of reprogrammable silicon chips to help speed up mainstream applications for the modern data centre. Intel FPGAs are the foundation for a new type of data center with …

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Analog Devices’ tiny µModule boost regulator for low voltage optical systems

Analog Devices, Inc. has announced the Power by Linear LTM4661, a low power step-up µModule regulator in a 6.25mm x 6.25mm x 2.42mm BGA package. Only a few capacitors and one resistor are required to complete the design, and the solution occupies less than 1cm²single-sided or 0.5cm²on double-sided PCBs. The …

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New low power AC/DC modules ideal for door entry or smart home applications

Luso announce the release of the L4A series of low power AC/DC modules. These compact universal input modules (90-264V AC) are available in 4 families, ranging from 1W to 10W. Offering fixed output voltages of 3.3V, 5V, 12V or 24V they are packaged in an encapsulated case and offer high …

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ROHM announces industry’s first power supply ICs for hi-fi audio

ROHM has recently announced the availability of high-fidelity power supply ICs optimised for audio devices requiring high-resolution playback. The BD372xx series are the first audio power supply ICs to combine leading-edge analogue and sound reproduction technologies. In addition to integrating a newly developed fast response error amp circuit and low-noise …

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15kW programmable power supply has a constant power bi-directional output

Powersolve announces a power supply that provides up to 15kW from a compact 3U high unit. The SM500-CP-50 features a constant power, bi-directional output and a number of features designed to provide users with an easy to use, flexible power source. According to Powersolve, a bi-directional output provides the same …

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