Solid-state relays furnish effortless control. Conquer triacs for lowest installed cost with high efficiency. Zero-crossing-detector optotriacs alleviate control worries. As Italian tyre giant Pirelli ...

Diacs and triacs are often used for control of ac lines and are seeing increasing use in Internet-enabled line switches. However, the traditional approach of modeling them using bipolar transistors ...

Power-control modules are circuits comprising devices such as silicon-controlled rectifiers, triacs, power transistors, and power rectifier diodes. Power-control modules are circuits comprising ...

For the PDF version of this article, click here. More than 80% of the motors bought each year continue to be low-cost single-phase ac motors. Because these motors are not very efficient when ...

As Italian tire giant Pirelli's advertising reminds us, “Power is nothing without control.” But if your application is automotive, consumer, or industrial, embedded control is often worthless without ...