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Why your local landfill won’t contain lithium batteries

September 30, 2020 By Lee Teschler Leave a Comment

By Ashley Felton - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1566902

Leland Teschler • Executive editor Consumers with an inclination toward sustainability have been bummed out over recent revelations that most of the plastics they have carefully separated, washed, and placed in recycling bins typically end up in the local dump. So it may come as good news that dead lithium batteries are increasingly likely to […]

Filed Under: Editor's Blog, Featured

How to electrocute yourself in a few easy steps

October 17, 2019 By Lee Teschler Leave a Comment

safety first

Here’s a fun project: Pop open an old microwave oven and scavenge the high-voltage transformer powering the cavity magnetron vacuum tube. Then use it to make yourself a Lichtenberg generator. But be sure there’s someone nearby to call an ambulance. Lichtenberg generators are used to create art and abstract objects by burning fractal patterns into […]

Filed Under: Editor's Blog, Featured, Power Components Tagged With: Commentary

Now or later? No time for time-of-use energy savings

March 1, 2019 By Lee Teschler 1 Comment

Leland Teschler, Executive Editor One of the big justifications for smart home electronics and internet-of-things pipe dreams is a concept called time-of-use electricity billing. Long used for industrial concerns, the plan is to bring TOU billing to households, so they’ll be charged more for electricity they use during periods of peak use, less for juice […]

Filed Under: Editor's Blog, Featured Tagged With: Commentary

All-electric Formula-E racing ramps up

February 14, 2019 By Lee Teschler Leave a Comment

The Formula-E championship is comprised of 13 races that take place in 12 cities across five continents. Season five kicked off in Ad Diriyah, Saudi Arabia, on Sunday, December 16, 2018, and will take its final lap in New York City on Sunday, July 14, 2019. The next race takes place this Saturday, February 16, […]

Filed Under: Editor's Blog, Featured Tagged With: ABB, avx, molex, TTI

Halt and catch fire: The perils of cheap PoE

April 24, 2018 By Lee Teschler 2 Comments

PoE

Dave Jeskey tells an interesting story about what happened when an LED lighting company operated a few of its products in a test chamber. The RJ45 plugs, used for making a connection to a Power over Ethernet cable, melted. The RJ45 plugs came from Sentinel Connector Systems where Jeskey is director of sales and marketing. […]

Filed Under: Editor's Blog, Featured, IoT Tagged With: sentinelconnectorsystems

The down side of free samples

November 15, 2017 By Lee Teschler 1 Comment

free samples

If you’ve had hassles trying to get component samples for a project, you can thank the efforts of a few enterprising students for making your life more complicated. Here’s a microcosm of what has happened with sample parts: The folks at Texas Instruments once had a liberal policy about giving out free samples of the […]

Filed Under: Editor's Blog, Featured Tagged With: texasinstrumentsinc

Gallery: Technical highlights of the Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Technology Expo

September 18, 2017 By Lee Teschler 2 Comments

Electric & Hybrid Vehicle Technology Expo & Conference kicked off this week in Novi, Mich. near Detroit. Billed as a forum for electric, hybrid and plugin hybrid vehicle technology, it showcased technological developments along the supply chain including electrical powertrains and components, battery management systems, materials and equipment. Here are a few of the more […]

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Filed Under: Editor's Blog, Featured Tagged With: aem, inventus, keysight, marquardt, maxwelltechnologies, rohm, samtec, standexelectronics, tektronix, unipower, Unitedchemicon

Cheapest source of power? NREL says it might be solar

August 30, 2017 By Lee Teschler 1 Comment

ATB NREL summary

The levelized cost of energy (LCOE) for some kinds of solar and wind power can be cheaper than that for conventional gas-fired power plants. That is one conclusion to be had from the 2017 edition of the National Renewable Energy Lab’s Annual Technology Baseline (ATB) which summarizes the current and projected technology cost and performance […]

Filed Under: Editor's Blog, Featured Tagged With: NREL

The next EV to drool over: An 1,800-hp hybrid will hit 150 mph in under eight seconds

August 29, 2017 By Lee Teschler 1 Comment

The Tesla Roadster covers the quarter-mile in 12.757 seconds while hitting 104.74 mph. Big deal. There’s a hybrid in the works at Ariel Motor Co. in the UK that will leave a Tesla eating its dust, even with the Tesla running in “ludicrous” mode. The range extended, electric sports car project is called the Hipercar […]

Filed Under: Editor's Blog, Featured Tagged With: arielmotors

Gallery: Connected car electronics on display at NXP FTF Connects in Detroit

August 21, 2017 By Lee Teschler 1 Comment

Chip supplier NXP recently put on its two-day FTF Connects event in the Motor City. Focusing on connected vehicle and autonomous technology, featured several interesting demos and a ride in cars outfitted in V2V and V2I technology. Here are a few of the more interesting sites we found in the exhibit area and the technical […]

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Filed Under: Editor's Blog, Featured, LED Lighting, MOSFETS, Power Components Tagged With: daymak, decawave, nxp, QNX

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