by admin | Mar 10, 2017 | Wirewound resistors
Wirewound Power Resistors Wirewound power resistors are rugged, reliable, small, and compatible with modern PCB and surface mount manufacturing systems. Although they have been around for a while, newer technologies still fall short in many power applications. The...
by admin | Feb 6, 2017 | Caddock, Resistors
Resistors are often designated as precision or power. Precision resistors are designed for applications where tight resistance tolerance and stability are primary considerations, and they generally have restricted operating temperature limits and power dissipation...
by admin | 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 admin | 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 admin | 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...
