Industrial Applications

This application highlight will discuss industrial applications for resistors. Industrial applications have a wide variety of conditions and electrical requirements which may require with performance beyond what typical thick film chip resistors can achieve.

Battery Management

This application highlight will discuss battery management circuits and the various Stackpole current sensing resistors that are suitable for different applications.

Electricity Meter Applications

This application highlight will discuss resistor applications in electricity meters. The rapid expansion of the smart grid has brought along with it an increase in the functionality of meters, and an increase in resistor content.

ESD Suppression Using Varistors or Gap Type Devices

An increasing number of electronic devices offer input / output ports, especially USB ports. There are several technologies that are regularly used for suppression of ESD events for such ports.

Surface Mount Current Sense

In this application note, we will discuss some design and solder pads recommendations for maximizing the accuracy and reliability of a current sensing circuit utilizing sense resistors.

Challenges of Downsizing SMD Resistors

Stackpole Electronics' app note titled "Downsizing SMD Resistors".

High Power Chip Resistors and Thermal Management

Stackpole has developed several surface mount resistor series in addition to our current sense resistors, which have had higher power ratings than standard resistor chips.