Thick-Film Current Sensing: When a Metal Shunt Is More Than the Circuit Needs
Thick-film current-sensing resistors can offer a practical, economical alternative to metal shunts in selected low- and medium-current applications.
Thick-film current-sensing resistors can offer a practical, economical alternative to metal shunts in selected low- and medium-current applications.
A Y1 ceramic safety capacitor rated for 300 VAC and 1500 VDC brings surface-mount assembly to a critical EMI and isolation function.
A new 125 V class of vibration-resistant axial aluminum electrolytic capacitors expands the design envelope for compact, high-ripple-current DC links.
AEC-qualified thick-film chip resistors that maintain full-rated power to 105°C widen the design envelope for automotive, aerospace, industrial, and dense power electronics.
New 125 V vibration-resistant aluminum electrolytic capacitors and an upgraded 63 V range reshape voltage, ripple, thermal, and sourcing decisions for compact DC links.
A 10 ppm, 18 A PCB-mount isolated current transducer shows how precision sensing, passives, layout, thermal design, and calibration are converging in compact power electronics.
A compact flat-wire SMD common-mode choke shows how 48 V and high-density power designs are reshaping EMI filtering, layout, thermal validation, and sourcing.
A 1,100 W half-brick PFC module shows how higher integration changes capacitor, magnetic, current-sense, EMI and thermal design.
A supercapacitor bank may contain enough calculated energy and still fail a pulse requirement because resistance, leakage, voltage limits, and converter behavior reduce what the load can actually use.
In a series supercapacitor bank, the controller may report a normal stack voltage while leakage and capacitance differences push one cell toward its limit. That hidden imbalance turns a passive-lookin…