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Three-phase power filtering up to 32A

Steve Bush — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:28:10 +0000

Rutronik is aiming at 3-phase industrial control cabinets with a DIN-rail mount mains filter series from Schurter. “The housing, with a width of just 44mm, requires extremely little space on ...

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20kV reed relay

Steve Bush — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 15:56:47 +0000

Pickering has introduced a reed relay that can stand-off 20kV. “The relay features 12.5kV switching at a maximum of 50W,” according to the company. “Tungsten-plated contacts ensure a long and ...

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Touch sensor shuns dirt, oil and water

Steve Bush — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 10:20:26 +0000

EBE Sensors + Motion has introduced a touch sensor evaluation board for challenging environments. It implements a technology branded ‘TCRC’, which is aimed at operating panels in industry, construction machinery, ...

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Soft potting compound is safe around bond wires

Steve Bush — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 13:47:00 +0000

Wevo has created three soft potting compounds that can be used “for wire bonds and inductive components such as chokes or transformers, either with or without ferrite cores”, it said, ...

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150μs max 1.2Ω photo relay is 1.45 x 2mm

Steve Bush — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 10:10:02 +0000

Toshiba has created a pair of highspeed photo relays for pin-switching in semiconductor test equipment. “Improved infrared LEDs and optimised photodiode arrays in these models enable switch-on times to be ...

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Sensorless FOC for stepper motor driver

Steve Bush — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 09:03:59 +0000

Nanotec has introduced a driver for stepper and brush-less dc (BLDC) motors with sensor-less closed-loop and field-oriented control (FOC). Intended for steppers from NEMA 14 to NEMA 34 and BLDC ...

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Absolute rotary encoders work on motors up to 8,000rpm

Steve Bush — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 15:18:51 +0000

Same Sky has created an absolute encoder family for motor shafts from 9 to 15.875mm (5/8inch). Called AMT25 and said to be accurate to ±0.2°, the family relies on the ...

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Sealed enclosures put routers outside with their antennas

Steve Bush — Thu, 29 May 2025 14:36:26 +0000

Antenna maker Taoglas has started manufacturing enclosures that include antennas. Called the Thunder series, the enclosures allow a router to be mounted outdoors, right next to the antenna “significantly reducing ...

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Allegro adds Cortex-M4 to 90V motor driver ICs

Steve Bush — Thu, 29 May 2025 10:27:34 +0000

Not known for making microcontrollers, Allegro Microsystems has picked a 40MHz Arm Cortex-M4 as the processing heart of a series of stand-alone three-phase automotive brushless motor driver ICs for rails ...

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PCIM: 1,000V 125A MEMS relay proof-of-concept

Steve Bush — Tue, 06 May 2025 09:18:42 +0000

Menlo Microsystems is demonstrating a way to scale its MEMS relays – micro electromechanical relays – to “power distribution and control systems to 10MW and beyond” today at PICM in ...

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