
‘Tvss’
An Electronicstalk guide
Start with the news release Vandal-resistant switches enable access control from Bulgin Components, which we summarised at the time by saying "Bulgin's MPI range of illuminated vandal-resistant switches are said to be ideal for access-control and door-entry applications.". Several months prior to that, we featured the news release Surge Suppression acknowledged with award from Surge Suppression: "Frost and Sullivan has selected Surge Suppression Incorporated as the recipient of the 2006 Frost and Sullivan Award for Customer Value Enhancement in the power quality industry.".
In November 2006, we covered the news from Focus EDL - take a look at Transient voltage suppressors cover wide range which says: "TVS devices protect against lightning-induced voltages, electrical switching surges, electrostatic discharge and other sporadic voltage and current surges.".
Take a look also at the news release from ON Semiconductor, LIN and CAN transceivers come with protection, as well as Suppression devices at the cutting edge from Surge Suppression, and Acquisition increases distribution deal from Solid State Supplies.
Latest stories...
Varistors handle more power in less space (September 2003)
Epcos has strengthened its EnergetiQ range of high-quality disc varistors with the addition of the Q14/Q20 series.
CVTs protect from damaging surges (August 2003)
When Scrimsign Micro Electronics found that its award-winning signs were experiencing unforeseen failures, the company's research department concluded it was caused by transients in the power supply.
Supply of reliability for semi processing (February 2003)
The GPI Series 2000 all-in-one voltage matching and power conditioning system has been developed to meet three-phase application requirements in the semiconductor industry.
Compact protection module mounts DIN rails (September 2002)
Advance Galatrek has a new DIN-rail-mount range of transient voltage surge suppressors (TVSS).
Thyristor trio protect telecomms (July 2002)
A range of thyristor transient voltage suppressors, available from Young ECC, are economical drop in replacements for the market leaders and offer shorter lead times for telecomms and datacomms applic
Transient suppressors shrink for portable uses (March 2002)
Two new families of transient voltage suppressors for 3.3V operation feature extremely low clamping voltage and leakage current values.
Matrix protects basestations from transients (March 2002)
Advance-Galatrek has a new range of transient voltage surge suppressors, specifically intended for installation in mobile basestations.
Suppression on the rails (January 2002)
Advance-Galatrek's new StrikeSafe DIN-rail compatible TVSSs are designed to clip directly onto the universal DIN-rail mount format tracking used in many control and distribution cabinets.
Further reading
- Why all TVSSs are not the same
Mick Burgoyne, Chief Engineer at Power Quality Management specialist Advance-Galatrek examines the technology behind one of the most critical - and yet neglected - power chain devices. - Plug-in hot swap TVSS technology on new TPUs
Advance-Galatrek has just unveiled its latest StrikeSafe wall mount Transient Protection Units (TPUs), featuring unique hot-swap plug-in technology.

Browse by category
- Active components (13556)
- Passive components (3584)
- Design and development (10248)
- Enclosures and panel products (3983)
- Interconnection (3643)
- Electronics manufacturing, packaging (3484)
- Industry news (2106)
- Optoelectronics (1959)
- Power supplies (3009)
- Subassemblies (5623)
- Test and measurement (5784)