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Improving energy efficiency in industrial pneumatics

Improving energy efficiency in industrial pneumatics
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Take a short course in compliance to efficiency standards

Hands-on video courses simplify power supply design projects.
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Power Management Basics: Power Management Subsystem Regulatory Standards

Why are regulatory standards difficult for designers to understand? Regulatory standards are difficult for most design engineers to understand, because:
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Power Management Basics: Power Supply Fundamentals

What are the space considerations when selecting a power supply? You have to make sure the power supply will fit in the space provided for it. Therefore, make sure the package...
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Power Management Basics: Power Supply Characteristics

Currently, distributed power techniques, called distributed power architecture (DPA), are used for systems that dissipate hundreds of watts. The DPA approach converts the incoming...
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Powerelectronics 482 Typical Acinverter 0
Powerelectronics 482 Typical Acinverter 0
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The Switch to Switched Reluctance

A quest for energy efficiency has fostered development of switched reluctance motors that are inherently simple and can supply variable speeds.
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Power Management 101: Power MOSFETs

What are Power MOSFETs ? Power MOSFETs (Metal-Oxide Semiconductor Field Effect Transistors) are three-terminal silicon devices that function by applying a signal to the gate that...
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Power Management 101: Power Peripheral and Battery-Based ICs

Power peripheral ICs provide supplemental functions to converter and controller regulator ICs. Battery-based ICs provide all the functions necessary to support portable power ...
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Powerelectronics 1024 Typical Electronic Ballast 0
Powerelectronics 1024 Typical Electronic Ballast 0
Powerelectronics 1024 Typical Electronic Ballast 0
Powerelectronics 1024 Typical Electronic Ballast 0
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Green Technology: How to power an energy-efficient light

New lamps are more efficient, but what about the electronics? Designers need to learn a few new tricks about driving LEDs and CFLs.