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Lighting & LEDs
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Robust AC Capacitors Last for 30,000 Hours
TDK’s B33331 and B33335 series AC capacitors come in aluminum housings and are designed to run for 30,000 hours.
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60 V Synchronous Buck Battery Charger Handles Lead-Acid, Li-Ion Types
Step-down battery charger has intelligent charging algorithms to handle various battery types.
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LED Tube Light Is Cost-Effective Fluorescent Replacement
Maintains 80% Luminosity for 50,000 Hours, Nearly Double That of Fluorescent Lamps
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Nissan Stadium Using LG’s LEDs for Lighting Retrofit
The lighting will be installed in time for the Tennessee Titans home opener on Sept. 11.
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Making Food Appear Fresher Through LED Lighting
Lumileds FreshFocus technology aims to showcase fruit, vegetables and other food in its freshest, most appealing state.
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Future Electronics, Microsemi Team on Low-cost Development Board
Future Electronics and Microsemi have introduced a development board costing under $50. The board, which incorporates a 25k logic element (LE) FPGA.
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Ledvance Smart Lighting Now Powered by Voice Control with Amazon’s Alexa
More than 120 million voice-enabled Smart Home devices to ship annually by 2021.
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Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Upgrades to LED Lighting
Musco’s lighting system will help improve visibility for the upcoming Los Angeles Rams and USC Trojans football season.
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Membrane May Give Electric Cars More Miles per Minute of Charging
“Smart” membrane keeps rechargeable batteries from discharging when not in use and allows for rapid recharging.
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Mouser, Amphenol LTW Sign Global Distribution Agreement
Mouser Electronics has agreed to carry Amphenol LTW’s connectors used in rugged and harsh environmental applications.
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LED Lighting Comes to Musical Instruments
The light allows for musicians to see hand position in dark environments and helps musicians with bad vision see better while playing.
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Molex to Acquire Phillips-Medisize Corporation
Molex has acquired Phillips-Medisize Corporation, a global leader in outsource design, development and manufacturing services for the medical industry.
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Mouser Presents Grant Imahara at this Week’s Microchip MASTERs Conference
Grant Imahara, the spokesperson for Mouser’s?Empowering Innovation Together™ program, will speak at the 2016 Microchip MASTERs Conference in Phoenix, Arizona on Thursday.
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How Smart Clothing Will Get an Illumination Upgrade
A recent breakthrough in the e-textile industry—a lightweight, ultra-flexible fabric that emits light—paves the way for truly smart clothing.
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Step-down Regulator Can Be Placed Near Load
The LTM4631 µModule® (power module) step-down regulator can be placed on a PC board very close to its load, such as an FPGA.
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Cuttable Display Sheet Developed
Going beyond the limits of LCD and OEL displays with new display sheets that can be cut into various shapes and can function while detached from a power source.
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Buck/Boost Controller Has Integrated Buck MOSFET
Allegro’s A4450 buck/boost controller can implement either a buck or buck/boost regulator to efficiently convert automotive battery voltages into a tightly regulated voltage.
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How to Turn Music Into Colors With a Wi-Fi Bridge
Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 American science fiction film, written and directed by Steven Spielberg. As part of the movie’s theme scientists enable a computer, using light and sound patterns together, to have a musical conversation with alien guests from a UFO visiting out planet.
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Mouser Electronics Appoints Sam Katsuta to Run Japan Operation
Mouser Electronics, Inc. has appointed Sam Katsuta, a longtime TDK executive, as Vice President of Mouser Electronics–Japan.
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Step-Down Supply Dissipates Low Power, Needs No Inductors
The LTC3256 step-down power supply from Linear Technology Corporation takes a single positive input and generates 5 V and 3.3 V step-down supplies with high efficiency and no inductors.
