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RS Components introduces Panasonic POSCAP and OS-CON capacitors offering low ESR and extended life capabilities across a broad range of applications

RS Components (RS), the trading brand of Electrocomponents plc (LSE:ECM), the world’s leading high service distributor of electronics and maintenance products, is stocking two new low Equivalent Series Resistance (ESR) polymer capacitors from the Panasonic Industrial Devices range. POSCAP and OS-CON offer reliable, efficient, long lifetime solutions for digital and telecommunications applications, and meet the … Read more

Silicon Labs Giant Gecko MCU Enables Echo Smart Sports watch to Go the Distance

Silicon Labs (NASDAQ: SLAB), a leader in high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs, today announced that Magellan, a leader of innovative GPS devices for vehicles, fitness, outdoor and mobile navigation, has chosen Silicon Labs’ EFM32 Giant Gecko microcontroller (MCU) as the energy-friendly processing platform for the Magellan Echo smart sports watch. Named as a CES Innovations 2014 … Read more

High Technology Lighting saves SSE energy

High Technology Lighting, supplier of energy-efficient lighting solutions for retail and commercial spaces, has provided a range of LED fittings to energy company SSE to help the company reduce its energy usage and carbon emissions, as well as improving the overall look of the lighting and lowering the company’s lighting maintenance costs. A bespoke direct … Read more

Morgan increasing productivity with new manufacturing investment

Morgan Advanced Materials, a market leader in the design and manufacture of ultrasonic sensors, has made a major investment in a new dedicated assembly cell at its manufacturing facility in Southampton, UK to further increase production of flow sensor assemblies for use in heat, gas and water metering applications. The new investment follows significantly increased … Read more

CMOS SDRAMs added to legacy range

Alliance Memory has extended its 64M and 128M lines of high-speed CMOS synchronous DRAMs (SDRAM) with a new 2M x 32 device in the 90-ball 8mm by 13-mm by 1.2mm TFBGA package and a 4M x 32 device in the 86-pin 400mil plastic TSOP II package. These devices are pin-for-pin compatible replacements for a number … Read more

Too good to be true?

Components Obsolescence Group member, Peter Marston of Rochester Electronics, warns buyers that if a price or a lead-time seems too good to be true, then the parts are more likely to be counterfeit It is a situation that every buyer faces: a critical semiconductor is just not available or is only available on a seriously … Read more

More EMC filters now available online

Power supply specialist, Stadium Power, has increased its range of products available for online purchase from stock to include a range of EMC filters, rated from six to 60A and including three phase and DIN rail types. All online orders will be available for fast delivery from stocks held in the UK and discounts of … Read more

Pre-qualified batteries speed medical design

Battery specialist, Accutronics, has launched a new range of pre-qualified and pre-tested batteries for applications such as medical equipment and industrial electronics. Customisable VR420 batteries are manufactured by Accutronics in the UK and meet relevant safety, performance and transportation standards. These 14.4V batteries utilise the latest lithium ion technology, said to deliver high volumetric and … Read more