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From: enjvr@dcatla.UUCP (Jayant V. Ragde)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Snubbers, free wheeling diodes, and power devices
Keywords: snubber free wheeling diode power devices
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Date: 27 May 88 14:09:16 GMT
References: <1754@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: enjvr@dcatla.com (Jayant V. Ragde)
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In article <1754@pt.cs.cmu.edu> phd@speech1.cs.cmu.edu (Paul Dietz) writes:
>
>And while we're on the subject of power problems, I need to get some
>info from the major manufacturers of thyristors and related devices.
>The problem is that I don't know who to call. I know TI used to make
>some, and the same with SGS, but that's a pretty short list...
>
>
>Paul H. Dietz                                        ____          ____
>Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering        / oo \        <_<\\\
>Carnegie Mellon University                        /|  \/  |\        \\ \\
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Some major manufacturers of SCRs and other power electronic devices:

Amperex Electronic Corp.
Powerex
Teccor Electronics Inc
AEG Telefunken, Inc
GE/RCA Solid State Div (used to have good app information)
Gentron Corp
International Rectifier (good app notes)
Motorola (not very large devices - good app notes)
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