If you're a beginner electronics hobbyist you know that the capacitors on most battery-operated objects aren't powerful enough to kill you but can still provide a painful jolt of electricity if not ...

Capacitors behave differently than resistors, where resistors allow a flow of electrons through them directly proportional to the voltage drop, and capacitors oppose changes in voltage by drawing or ...

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 ...

If a larger value of resistance were used with the same value of capacitance in the above circuit, then a smaller current would flow, therefore it would take longer for the capacitor to charge up and ...

Power Integrations rolled out the next generation of its CAPZero line of innovative, two-terminal, X capacitor discharge ICs, the CAPZero™-2 ICs. These devices increase design flexibility by covering ...

IEC 62368-1 and EN 62368-1 are new over-arching safety standards covering TVs and IT equipment. IEC/EN 62368-1 replaces IEC/EN 60950 and IEC/EN 60065 and will become mandatory. Power Integrations' ...

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 ...