Understanding the advantages, limitations, and use cases of each technology helps engineers create reliable consumer products.

Despite many of the myths that surround series networks and their acclaimed superiority over conventional parallel networks for loudspeaker design, both networks can be designed with identical ...

POWER OVER ETHERNET (POE) enabled devices and their electronic components are designed for operation within specified current and voltage ratings. If these ratings are exceeded due to short-circuit or ...

Overcurrent protection of conductors is an idea so simple that it is almost self-evident. Excessive current in a conductor results in rapid temperature rise, which damages insulation and creates ...

For a PDF verion of this article, click here. Where resettable overcurrent protection is a requirement, PolySwitch polymeric positive temperature coefficient (PPTC) devices offer a highly effective ...

Chroma’s Model 6310 is a series of Programmable DC Electronic Load featuring maximum power capacity of 200 W, and parallel load modules in one frame, for testing multiple output SMPS. It offers ...