Electronic Design

Shunt Resistor Delivers Values Down to 100 μΩ

Vishay Intertechnology’s WSMS5515 is a power metal strip meter-shunt resistor that uses a proprietary processing technique to achieve values as low as 100 μΩ with values extending up to 500 μΩ Jan. 24 ...
Electronic Design

Shunt Resistor Thermal Drift Must Be Controlled

Find a downloadable version of this story in pdf format at the end of the story. The shunts employed for current measurements are typically connected in series with the load, and the voltage drop ...
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Shunt resistor features ultra-low profile

Rohm Semiconductor has claimed the industry’s lowest height, measuring 0.03-inch, for a 12-W metal-plate shunt resistor. The new PSR350 shunt resistor is optimized for high-power applications in ...
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Open protector provides switching shunt path when LED fails

Des Plaines, Ill.—Littelfuse Inc. has introduced the PLED 6 series, an open LED protector that provides a switching electronic shunt path when a single LED in an LED array fails as an open circuit.