Business Wire

New CAPZero-3 X-Capacitor Discharge ICs from Power Integrations Meet IEC60335

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Power Integrations (Nasdaq: POWI), the leader in high-voltage integrated circuits for energy-efficient power conversion, today announced CAPZero™-3, the latest ...
EDN

IEC 62368 Certified X-Capacitor Discharge ICs

Power Integrations successfully meet the IEC 62368 standard on its CAPZero™ family of innovative, two-terminal, automatic X-capacitor discharge ICs. The IEC 62368 is the new over-arching safety ...
Nasdaq

Power Integrations Incorporates Lossless Zero-Cross Detection and X-Capacitor Discharge into New LinkSwitch-TNZ Offline Switcher ICs

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Power Integrations (Nasdaq: POWI), the leader in high-voltage integrated circuits for energy-efficient power conversion, today announced LinkSwitch™-TNZ, a new ...
EDN

Capacitor Charge/Discharge Circuits

There are many applications which require pulse power. The needed burst of energy is derived by rapidly discharging a previously charged capacitor. As the energy stored in a capacitor is equal to ...
New Atlas

High-density hybrid powercapacitors: A new frontier in the energy race

Hybrid "power capacitors" that can store as much energy as lithium batteries, but with much higher charge/discharge rates, a huge range of safe operating temperatures, super-long lifespans and no risk ...
Electronic Design

X-Cap Discharge ICs Are IEC-Compliant

Power Integrations' CAPZero automatic X-capacitor discharge IC is now certified to meet IEC CTL DSH 1080, the new mandatory addition to the Certification Body (CB) scheme of the IEC60950 and IEC60065 ...
Electronics Weekly

Prepare for IEC 62368 with X capacitor safety discharger

With IEC 62368 replacing earlier safety standards for TVs and IT equipment, Power Integrations is certifying its X capacitor discharge ICs to the new standard. X capacitors control conducted emissions ...
Electronics Weekly

X-capacitor discharger for IEC60335 home appliances works up to 6µF, and wastes

Power Integrations is aiming at larger home appliances needing to meet IEC60335 with an X-capacitor discharger that can empty 6µF in under a second. X-capacitors are part of the EMC input filter of ...
Electronic Design

Dielectric Absorption, Soakage, And Voltage Discharge From A Supposedly Passive Capacitor

My first experience with soakage was a pleasant one, not like my first experience measuring a power transformer. When I was a teenager, a local “ham” operator (a mid-twentieth century term for an ...
AOL

A Staggering 19x Energy Jump in Capacitors May Be the Beginning of the End for Batteries

Researchers believe they’ve discovered a new material structure that can improve the energy storage of capacitors. The structure allows for storage while improving the efficiency of ultrafast charging ...
Hackaday

Variable Super Capacitor Battery Provides Power On The Go

Instructable user [EngineeringShock] got sick of buying batteries for his devices all the time and has instead opted to build himself a super capacitor bank that can be used to power common household ...