With the increasing restrictiveness of international power supply efficiency standards, power supply controllers are being pushed to their cost-performance limits. Meeting these new standards while ...

Development of the new HVDC Light technology has continued at a rapid rate, with voltage levels and power ratings steadily increasing as power losses decrease. Since the first transmission ABB has ...

ROHM introduces another addition to its lighting LED drivers, the BM520Q15F. The device is an AC/DC quasi-resonant controller type which can be applied to a non-isolated application which, as a result ...

The 19th century battle between Nikolai Tesla’s alternating current (AC) and Thomas Edison’s direct current (DC) technologies had an undisputed winner. The vast majority of the world’s transmission ...

In early 2006, KCP&L executives looked for ways to reduce system peak demand. The distribution automation engineering group proposed a voltage reduction option called dynamic voltage control (DVC).