Electronic Components Features

Escha: your first stop for tailor made cabling and connectors

Escha: your first stop for tailor made cabling and connectors

Escha have been at the heart of the cable and connector industry for over 30 years, they have built a reputation for uncompromising quality and reliability whilst retaining the ability to respond rapidly to individual customer demands. Ian Manning reports.

Power conditioning delivers proven ROI

Power conditioning delivers proven ROI

Problems associated with power quality can take a huge toll on companies, with interruptions to the power supply such as impulses, noise, sags, surges, brownouts and outages causing sensitive electronic and computing equipment to fail. Rob Morris describes his company’s two-year study of power quality systems installation to identify their real return on investment (ROI) performance.

Maths helps mobiles and tablets match our eyes’ dynamic range

Maths helps mobiles and tablets match our eyes’ dynamic range

Researchers have pushed the boundaries of High Dynamic Range (HDR) video to match our own eyes’ ability to cope with the real world's ever rapidly changing light intensity.

Goodbye, fluorescent light bulbs! See your office in a new light

Goodbye, fluorescent light bulbs! See your office in a new light

Say goodbye to that annoying buzz created by overhead fluorescent light bulbs. Scientists have developed a flicker-free, shatterproof alternative for large-scale lighting.

Li-ion cell protection from TE Circuit Protection

Li-ion cell protection from TE Circuit Protection

Rechargeable Lithium-Ion (Li-ion) batteries are everywhere and, if not properly protected, every one of them can cause serious damage if an overcurrent fault condition occurs. TE Circuit Protection’s Barry Brents explains how a PolySwitch PPTC resettable device is placed inside a battery cell or in parallel in a battery pack to protect lower current applications from external short circuits or heating events.

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