by Riedon | Feb 2, 2017 | Custom Resistors, Resistors
Custom Resistors For Your Next Project Riedon can modify existing power resistor designs to fit many special applications. For example, it is relatively easy to imbed one of our standard wirewound power resistors into a custom case. Our custom capability is somewhat...
by Riedon | Feb 1, 2017 | Caddock, Digikey, Resistors, vishay, Wirewound resistors
Bleed Resistors – Maintaining a Charge Bleed resistors are placed in parallel with a power supply’s load and are used to discharge the smoothing capacitors in linear AC-DC converters and also the reservoir capacitors utilized by DC-DC converters. These...
by Riedon | Jan 24, 2017 | Resistors
High Voltage Dividers High voltage dividers are used to scale down a high voltage for any number of reasons including: feedback for power regulation, or simplified monitoring. Potentiometric ratios as high as 1000:1 or even higher are not uncommon. Voltage divider...
by Riedon | Jan 23, 2017 | Current Shunt, Resistors
Current Sense Resistors High current sensing is where a low ohmic precision resistor is used in series with the load. To determine the current one measures the voltage drop across the resistor. This is the same principal used by a shunt ammeter. The dilemma facing the...
by Riedon | Jan 9, 2017 | Resistors
Riedon’s Balancing Resistors Balancing resistors provide a way for sharing a load between two or more DC-DC converters or power transistors. Using two smaller devices in parallel may have cost, thermal, or physical advantages when compared to one device of...
