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New 3-phase High-Voltage Breakout Module for electrical power analysis of vehicle powertrains

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CSM Gmbh, the industry leader of innovative measurement and data technology for 38 years, announces the newest product to its suite of measurement modules for the development of electric vehicles. When combined with Vector Informatik’s eMobility Analyzer, real-time power analysis can be performed in the test bench and test vehicle.

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Electronic fuses and the evolution of overcurrent protection

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An old saw often uttered by an electrical engineer (or their hapless techs) when an electronic device releases its magic smoke goes something like this: “The transistor bravely sacrificed itself to protect the fuse.” Microchip’s Silicon Carbide E-Fuse demonstrator is available in six variants for 400–800 V battery systems.

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A closer look at multilevel traction inverters

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The vast majority of EV traction motors must be supplied with sinusoidal 3-phase alternating current with the frequency proportional to RPM, and the overwhelmingly favorite way to do this is with a triple half-bridge voltage source inverter, or VSI. In this topology, each bridge switch can connect its output terminal (i.e.