Power Integrations is aiming at larger home appliances needing to meet IEC60335 with an X-capacitor discharger that can empty 6µF in under a second. X-capacitors are part of the EMC input filter of ...

The capacitor auto-discharge module presented in this article is simply a failsafe module that automatically discharges the buffer/filter capacitor in a power supply circuit when its input supply is ...

If you have a motley collection of 12V batteries in varying states of health, this simple circuit will allow you to easily check their capacity. It’s basically a high-current discharge load which is ...