Electronic Concepts, Inc. (ECI) announced its new capacitor technology that the company claims delivers unparalleled security against failure in catastrophic conditions. The technology, dubbed Fuseac™, is claimed to provide a new level of control to potential overheating (especially in ac application) in situations that may cause catastrophic failure, by having its patent pending fuse technology intuitively disconnect upon detecting the hazardous condition.
From inception, the Fuseac™ technology was created to provide designers of power management systems, utilizing metallized dry film capacitors, with a superior protection mechanism that detects capacitor hot spots and electrically disconnects upon reaching a defined critical value. Metallized film capacitors, mainly due to self healing of inherent defects, are reliable and long lasting over the life of the product. However excessive self healings can create an overheating run-away condition, especially in uncontrolled, unmonitored circuits, and fail catastrophically. Fuseac™ is claimed to provide added insurance against this type of disastrous failure.
Fuseac™ is a patent pending technology and on request can be incorporated in a host of Electronic Concepts products, especially into designs needing added overheating protection.
