Some of the most popular motor types used today would not be viable without control methods based on powerful microcontrollers processing complex algorithms; for example, a permanent magnet ...

I’m parked at the back of the grid on Mount Panorama, awaiting the race start, and there are cars ahead of me literally facing backwards. This is not going to go well. As you’d expect, pandemonium ...

The world of electric motor tech moves fast. Just months after YASA claimed an unofficial record for the most power-dense unit ever, the Mercedes-owned company specializing in axial-flux design motors ...

Diodes is an analog/mixed-signal supplier. It’s relatively diversified across applications, though concentrated in Asia. Asia accounts for the majority of its revenues, while Europe and the Americas ...

One of the more intriguing but frustrating watches on the market over the past few years has been the Longines Spirit Flyback. Here was a mechanical flyback chronograph from the brand that literally ...

As [Sam Ben-Yaakov] points out in a recent video, you don’t often see flyback converters these days. That’s because there are smarter ways to get the same effect, which is to convert between two ...

We’ve been intrigued by Orbis’ many different swings at providing in-wheel motors that add little or no un-sprung weight ever since company founder Marcus Hays brought us a PHEV Civic Type R with an ...

A new chapter in electric motor design may be underway, and it’s being written in the UK. Yasa Motors, based in Britain and owned by Mercedes, has developed a new electric motor that sets a new ...

Researchers have discovered the mechanism for supercurrent rectification, in which current flows primarily in one direction in a superconductor. By using a specific iron-based superconductor, they ...

Performance of InnoSwitch™3-AQ flyback IC demonstrated in new reference designs featuring wide-creepage package “The new InSOP™-28G package, with its wide 5.1 mm drain-to-source pin creepage distance, ...

Many hobbies seem to have a subset of participants who just can’t leave well enough alone. Think about hot rodders, who squeeze every bit of power out of engines they can, or PC overclockers, who ...

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