Digi-Key offers device to help prevent thermal damage caused by failed power components
Digi-Key
Digi-Key is offering TE Connectivity’s Reflowable Thermal Protection (RTP) device, which, claimed to be the industry’s first SMD thermal protector, helps prevent thermal damage caused by failed power components.
TE’s RTP device is designed to withstand the demanding environmental, life and reliability requirements of automotive and industrial applications, including shock, vibration, temperature cycling and humidity exposures.
Specifying an open temperature ensures the device does not open within normal component operating windows, but it does open in a thermal runaway event and before the melt temperature of typical lead-free solders.
The RTP device helps provide protection against damage caused by thermal runaway for power FETs and other components if failure occurs in applications such as automotive HVAC, ABS, power steering, DC/DC converters, PTC heaters, or IT servers, telecom power or converters.
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