The best part by far, though, was the demonstration of drawing an arc from a high voltage power supply with and without the capacitor in the circuit. As you might expect, playing with a few ...

It worked! I sat the capacitor on top of a tall 4″ diameter ABS pipe which in turn sat on a digital scale on the floor. High voltage in the tens of kilovolts was put across the capacitor through ...

A microwave not heating can be an inconvenience. Before settling for cold leftovers or buying a new one, check out Bob Vila's troubleshooting tips.

Navitas Semiconductor has announced the latest breakthrough of the world’s first production-released 650 V bi-directional GaNFast ICs and high-speed isolated gate drivers, creating a paradigm shift in ...

The flyback transformer is custom-wound with copper wire to achieve the necessary inductance for plasma generation. Its AC output is rectified to DC using a high-voltage microwave diode, as DC is ...

Feb. 26, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Vishay Intertechnology, Inc. (NYSE: VSH) today introduced a new series of surface-mount multilayer ceramic chip capacitors (MLCCs) for high voltage commercial ...