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While very early cars didn’t have batteries, and some old cars had 6 V positive ground systems, most of us have lived our entire lives where car batteries come in several sizes (controlled by ...

With the increasing use of aftermarket electrical devices on older muscle cars, this amplifies the demand for sufficient ...

IEC 60781 presents an application guide for the calculation of short-circuit currents in low-voltage radial systems. The methods described there are identical to those as per IEC 60909-0 and as ...

and voltage surges due to ground faults and lightning strikes. RS-232 lines, long printer cables and USB cables are subject to inter-system ground noise, while optical fibers and Ethernet are not.

Related:Electric Vehicle Industry Group Issues EV Road Map Other uses for the muscle of a 48-volt system would be a hybrid that can even shut off the gas engine periodically while cruising at highway ...

The Voltage Glitch Detector is a fully integrated analog IP intended to monitor the voltage supply so as to protect the system against fault injection attacks.

RJVC02 is 2.0 - 6.0 GHz, voltage controlled oscillator. It can operate at 1.8 V supply and consumes only 1.0 mA current. The tuning bandwidth of the oscillator is 4 GHz with good phase noise ...

Engineers have consistently predicted that cars would shift from 12-volt electrical systems to 48-volt systems for two decades. But cost and inertia have kept 12-volt electrics in place, with the ...

When [Nicole Express] got her hands on the logic board for the 1986 SNK arcade game Athena, she ran into a rather thorny problem: The board expected to be fed negative five volts! [Nicole]’s ...

Did you know all EVs have a traditional 12-volt battery, and without it they won't start? Learn more about this surprising EV ...

The plug-in-hybrid powertrain piles on the pounds, but the M5 is still a hoot to drive.