Power

Here is the Electronics Weekly roundup of all our latest news from PCIM Europe (Power Conversion and Intelligent Motion)

At PCIM 2019, we caught up with Nigel Brooke of Murata as part of our promotional coverage for the event. He discusses Murata releasing its high efficiency 12V 6A PoL modules, which use a dual stage architecture. This unique architecture enables higher efficiency and smaller form factors than competitive devices for use in communications infrastructure applications, says the company. Thank ...

At PCIM 2019, we caught up with Bruce Renouard as part of our promotional coverage for the event. He discusses how Pre-Switch is offering soft-switching for DC/AC applications, as well as AC/DC ones. And that soft-switching is good for any power converter technology, where efficiency or cost reduction is important. AI is used to sense 20 different points in a power ...

At PCIM 2019, we caught up with Chris Boyce of Nexperia as part of our promotional coverage for the event. He discusses Nexperia’s new LFPAK family of products – specifically, the LFPAK88 – that result in 40V MOSFETs delivering a low RDS(on) of 0.7mΩ. The LFPAK88 devices replace larger power packages such as D²PAK and D²PAK-7, and by measuring 8 ...

ULEMCo announces plans to launch a zero emission 50 kW (KVA) generator

Component distributor, Gateway Electronic Components, has added a fourth website, based on power. The power website was introduced to meet growing demand in power factor correction (PFC) and associated products market. The Power Gateway joins Components, IoT and Ferrite Gateway sites, each focusing on a specific market area and offering products, e-commerce trading, supply chain logistics and value added services. ...

The Power Stamp Alliance has published a specification for a power converter module intended to extend the power and current rating of its standard family of products. The Alliance (Artesyn Embedded Technologies, Bel Power Solutions, Flex, and STMicroelectronics) has created a joint specification for several types of 48Vdc-dc converter modules – dubbed ‘power stamps’ (specifications here) and primarily aimed at ...

Delivering peak power to motor start or/and high capacitive loads in factory automation applications, the three-phase ENI250A series delivers a constant 250W and up to 480W peak power with an efficiency up to 94%. The power supply, by Powerbox, is housed in an IP54 case and measure 250mm x 160mm x 55mm. It includes a microcontroller to adjust protection behaviour ...

Recom is aiming at rail rolling stock with a 25 x 25mm (actually 1 x 1inch) dc-dc converter that can deliver 12W. Called RP12-AR, the modules operate at up to 90% efficiency and up to +88°C ambient at full load – so no derating, and neither forced cooling nor additional heatsinks are required when operating at full load. Minimum operating ...

The quest for lightweight, compact batteries in power supplies and in electric vehicle is unrelenting, but researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT in Oberhausen, have developed a flexible and thin bipolar plate material for batteries which do not require sealing, which makes them vulnerable to leakage, and which can be welded to create large ...