- Leading UPS manufacturer, CENTIEL UK, has confirmed the promotion of Louis McGarry to Sales and Marketing Director with immediate effect. Formerly CENTIEL’s sales manager, Louis McGarry will now ...
- The first stage The Electrical Apprentice of the Year competition has now closed. Running between September to 24 December, more than 540 electrical students across the UK took part in the first ...
- Ahead of the launch of a Clean Air Zone in York city centre later this month, City of York Council has awarded more than £1.6m in funding to five bus companies to help them to make their vehicles ...
- UK Power Networks has become the first electricity network operator to achieve the Carbon Trust Standard for Carbon. The comapny, which delivers electricity to 8.3 million homes and businesses ...
- NEW Winter Jackets and Gilets – insulated and water-resistant. These new ALLroundWork Jackets and Gilets are just what the name suggests – delivering a great all-round performance on site with ...
- There were 49 power plant contracts announced in the Europe region in December 2019, marking a drop of 18 per cent over the last 12 month average of 60, according to GlobalData’s power industry ...
- Rexel has underlined its plans and vision for 2020, with the appointment of two new senior leaders. Pierre Benoit, cluster lead for Benelux, UK and Ireland has been appointed as interim CEO of ...
- With work-related illnesses on the rise, health and safety is fast becoming a greater priority for businesses operating within many industries today. However, one safety-focused firm is urging ...
- During 2019, Scolmore Group made a significant investment in its successful OVIA brand of lighting to create a dedicated, independent lighting company – OVIA Ltd. The aim was to bring to the ...
- Schneider Electric has extended its product range to help contractors comply with the 18th Edition of the IET Wiring Regulations. The 18th Edition, which came into force in January 2019, sets ...
- Schneider Electric has awarded Actemium ICS with an Okken licence, enabling Actemium ICS to supply Okken low voltage switchboards and manufacture bespoke equipment for customers. Actemium ICS is ...
- Following four years of research and development Gore Workwear has just launched its latest innovation: lightweight arc rated GORE PYRAD protective clothing for all day wearing. Here Dr Peter Wimmer, ...
- Kent County Council owns and maintains around 90 per cent of street lights across Kent. However, each district council also owns a small number of lights. Ashford Borough Council has around 1,200 ...
- Nexeon has reached the halfway stage in its £10m Sunrise project, and has already produced silicon battery materials that have performed better than expected. Samples are now with potential customers ...
- Network Rail has approved Bender UK’s next generation RS4 Rail Signalling Power Protection system that delivers increased sensitivity for first earth fault location and enables compliance with ...
- Schneider Electric has promoted Pankaj Sharma to succeed Dave Johnson as executive vice president of its Secure Power Division effective from 1 January, 2020. Sharma, who was senior vice president, ...
- What’s New in Electronics Live, the dedicated electronics and manufacturing event, has been successfully acquired by Datateam Business Media, and will now join the company’s portfolio of existing ...
- A new anaerobic digestion (AD) plant in Kent, which converts food and agricultural waste from the county into biogas and electricity, has been connected to the national grid. Malcolm McAllister ...
- Electricity North West has revealed that it expects peak electricity demand in the North West to increase by up to 50 per cent in the next 20 years, as the region transitions to a low carbon future ...
- A significant milestone has been met by the region’s power network operator following its move to lead the North West to become carbon neutral. Depots and offices owned by Electricity North West ...
- This application note presents the non-volatile data storage ( NVDS ) operation of Z8 Encore!® and Z8 Encore! XP® families. It describes the Read and Write operation of NVDS , as well as its power failure protection, optimization of the...
- There are many variables involved with creating PCB s: the solder mask, the silk screen, the copper weight and width. However, the underlying foundation, the laminate, is sometimes glossed over. There are many different types of...
- This application note presents the process of interfacing the CS5529/6/9 to the 80C51 microcontroller. It describes the software description and ADC digital interface of the application, as well as presents a simple illustration on how...
- This video is a Power Integrations’ course about bringing up a flyback supply for the first time. This course covers the steps for safely bringing up and testing your power supply. The testing requires equipments such as isolated...
- Keeping electronics at reasonable temperature is not magic, although it may feel like it at times. The effects of heat on electronics are also somewhat difficult to predict and often can be better-understood using statistics, such as...
- Jefferay Lawton, Product Marketing Engineer in Analog Division at Microchip Technology, reviews several advantages and design considerations for a resistance temperature detector ( RTD ) solution using a high resolution Delta-Sigma ADC ,...
- In 2012, a small LED lighting company called LIFX reinvented the light bulb. The result spawned the “smart lighting” industry: a WiFi-enabled, multi-colored bulb that is controllable via smart device. When we say multi-colored, we mean...
- This application note briefly describes the sensitivity of transponder coils. The document presents the different methods of measuring the sensitivity, its test materials, test setup, and sensitivity calculations.
- Robots already play an important role in our daily lives. In this article, Job Gabay of Mouser Electronics will present a funny thing that happens when robots are becoming human. The article will also describe the emotional attachments...
- The MAXQ3180 and MAXQ3183 are polyphase multifunction energy measurement analog front-ends ( AFE s) with many advanced power-monitoring features such as power factors, vector sum, and harmonic components. Metering accuracy and electric...
- This week we’ll cover Amphenol Industrial’s H4 UTX PV cable connectors, EPCOS CeraLink capacitors, and STMicro’s STWBC digital controller.
- This article presents the efficiency of DC-DC converter and techniques for PWM regulation. It also describes the limitation of the input voltage range, as well as synchronous rectification, planar transformers and some package styles for...
- This video presents the Melexis MLX81200 Sensorless BLDC Controller in a fuel pump application. It shows an MLX81200 development setup that is connected to a BLDC fuel pump and is mounted in fuel pump tester itself to be able to measure...
- Wi-Fi® was designed to provide wireless internet connectivity. Wi-Fiis ubiquitous, being installed in most homes, almost all offices, coffee shops, schools, retails stores, and more. Wi-Fi is integrated into phones, laptops, tablets, and...
- Astrodyne released its short form EMI Filter brochure which gives an overview of the different filters that they offer. Astrodyne offers filters for numerous applications and industries including commercial and military industries.
- Typical IC (integrated circuit) specifications are more important than minimum and maximum specs when optimizing battery life.
- This article presents regulation of DC/DC converters. It describes regulation of multiple outputs and the remote current sensor.
- This application note is a user’s guide of the MSK5978RH evaluation board. The document covers the overview of the MSK 5978RH, how to setup the evaluation board, output voltage programming, efficiency, input/output capacitors, loop...
- Spectrum analyzers are powerful test equipments that can help troubleshoot, characterize and fix RF related issues. Instruments equipped with a tracking generator also have the added benefit being used as a scalar network analyzer. This...
- In the previous articles, we assumed that the descriptions of DC/DC converters were ideal, neglecting the effect of parasitic elements. Thus, it is important to note that inductors have capacitive and resistive elements in it, and vice...
- This article presents another type of regulator switching topology, which are the isolated DC/DC converters. It covers the flyback and forward DC/DC converter, active clamp forward converter, push-pull converter, as well as half-bridge...
- Tom Wolf, Product Applications Engineer at NXP Semiconductors, introduces the AXP , an advanced extremely-low voltage and power CMOS logic. The advanced extremely low voltage and power ( AXP ) logic family provides ultra-low power, small...
- This white paper presents the low-power, high-precision, self-testing data acquisition system for large seismic exploration grid. It briefly introduces the seismic exploration, and the components that are used in the data acquisition...
- On the 5th day of December on 2014, 16 of Intersil’s radiation-hardened ICs were onboard the maiden voyage of NASA’s Orion Spacecraft. The spacecraft is designed to go where no man has gone before exploring and collecting asteroids...
- This application note discusses the significance of Hall Effect current sensors for automotive application particularly in electric vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles. This note provides a review of the implementation factors.