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Welcome to the Electrical/Electronic Technology Zone. Here you will find Feature Articles, New Products and News related to Electrical and Electronic Technology. Be sure to check out the Basics of Design Engineering, where you'll find a great source of design engineering basics.

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Sensor Sense: Cylinder-Position Sensors
Cylinder-position sensors are used in pneumatic or hydraulic cylinders.
Scanning for Ideas: A Modular, Versatile Battery
The Nanobattery from mPhase Technologies, Little Falls, N.J. (mphasetech.com), uses a concept that keeps the electrolyte from touching the electrodes until power is needed.
Sustainable Engineering: More-Efficient Lighting is not Rocket Science
The recent case of a lighting system in a lead-acid battery supplier/recycler shows the kind of energy savings possible without resorting to LELEDs, CFLs, or other superefficient illumination technologies.
Sensor Sense: Ultrasonic Double-Sheet Detectors
Ultrasonic double-sheet detectors distinguish between single and double sheets of paper, plastic, or metal foils to prevent waste or machine damage.
More-Efficient Motors and Transformers — If You Can Get Them
2010 is shaping up to be a hot year for energy efficiency.
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Test instruments in Texas
Among the developments at NI Week: Wi-Fi DAQ and measurement gear you can call on your cell phone.
Heading Off a Kilowatt Crunch
With the stroke of a pen, legislators have forced electric motors to get more efficient.
Green Technology: More-Efficient Motors
Recent legislation forces motors to use electricity in a more miserly way.
Green Technology: How to power an energy-efficient light
New lamps are more efficient, but what about the electronics? Designers need to learn a few new tricks about driving LEDs and CFLs.
Top tips on squelching electrical noise
Judicious component layout plays a large role in immunizing test and control systems against electrical interference.
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Product Spotlight: 16-bit ADCs Target Industrial Uses
The ±10-V, 16-bit ADS8519 and ADS8513 analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) have a low-power successive approximation register (SAR) converter with sample-and-hold, clock, reference, and a serial data interface.
Product Spotlight: ¼-Brick dc-dc Donverter
The 0RQB-C0U Series of open-frame isolated dc-dc converters are for high-speed networking, telecommunications, and computing applications.
Product Spotlight: Dc/dc Converters for Easy Paralleling
The Load Share Series provides a modular “plug-and-play” solution for paralleling multiple dc/dc converters, which increases current capability and/or power-system redundant load sharing.
Product Spotlight: Rugged dc/dc Converter
The plug-in DCW 150R-EH Series converter, designed for railway and other heavy-duty applications, can operate from 48 (28 to 74-V range), 72 (42 to 110 V) or 110-Vdc (57 to 168-V) supply voltages.
Product Spotlight: Water-Cooled 8-kW Power Converters
The CW5300 Series of water-cooled dc/dc and ac/dc converter modules come in five standard dc input voltage ranges from 80 to 800 Vdc, as well as three-phase ac input voltages that include 3 × 200 Vac, 3 × 400 Vac, and 3 × 480 Vac.
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The Machine Design Tech Insider - November 13, 2008
Bullet train for California: Boon or bust? - Geeks or not, society needs engineers - At last, a flying car - A moving skyscraper for NYC? - Start a fire with a potato - A pot for plants that NEED sunlight
The Machine Design Tech Insider - October 30, 2008
The candidates and technology - Editorial: Mathematics of financial chaos - Do we really need 100,000 more engineers? - Compact splicing connectors - Twisted connectable belts
The Machine Design Tech Insider - October 24, 2008
Are engineers still in demand? - Machine Design forums: Training is a hot topic - Editor blogs: VSTOL F-35 and engineering PhDs - Cylinder-rod boots - Noncontact position sensor
The Machine Design Tech Insider - October 16, 2008
How to learn fast - Develop products like Toyota - Lean development practices straight from the experts - What's new in sustainable materials - Ac drive - Rodless pneumatics - Laser system marks challenging materials
Electrical/Electronic Monthly October 2008
Test instruments in Texas - Internet Spam From Industrial Networks? It’s Possible - Finding a Tunnel’s RF Sweet Spot - GaN transistor likes it hot - Scanning for Ideas: A Modular, Versatile Battery - Plug-in PLC With Analog Input - Transparent screw covers - Gold-plated bellows contacts - Power supply
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