Their job is to convert high-voltage alternating current from the mains into low-voltage direct current for mobile phones, laptops, iPods and other electronic gadgets.
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Since 2005, the company has stood out in the fast-moving LED industry with an innovation that allows LEDs to be powered by alternating current, or AC, rather than requiring a transformer that turns AC into direct current.
Siemens is also offering high-voltage direct current technology, but ABB is a step ahead.
Direct current is ideal for moving power long distances and for moving power underwater or underground.
An inverter converts the direct current from the battery into the alternating current for feeding the grid.
Its high-voltage direct current system is delivering electricity to the British Petroleum platform in the middle of the ocean.
But Thomas Edison's idea--that power should be distributed as direct current--is being revived.
Inverters and microinverters convert the direct current (DC) power produced by solar panels into alternating current (AC) used in homes and businesses.
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Direct current, in which electrons flow in only one direction, worked fine over short distances but was problematic for the long haul.
The reserve power category includes backup batteries and related products that provide a continuous supply of direct current (DC) during power outages.
These devices transform the direct current generated by a solar panel or electric car battery into the alternating current you expect from a wall socket.
One of ABB's specialties is high-voltage direct current links, so-called HVDC.
Yet it's scarcely visible in the market for solar panel inverters, devices that turn the direct current power generated by solar panels into alternating current for the grid.
Traditional inverters gather power from all or most of the panels in an installation and use transformers, capacitors and switches to change it from direct current to alternating current.
We could also setup hosted software demos for the products we sell and direct current and prospective clients to try out all of our applications in this separate environment.
They used a technique called transcranial direct current stimulation, or tDCS. If you pass a weak electrical current through part of the brain, it temporarily and safely disrupts neural activity.
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If current experiments with direct elections for township heads, who belong to the lowest tier of government, are ever to be promoted nationally, the constitution will need to be revised.
One of the considerations was the relative safety of direct current - the first electric chair seems to have been built (and then used) to prove that alternating current was more of a killer.
Infineon also provides the thyristor chips that allow transformers to handle high-voltage direct-current power lines.
Even Thomas Edison bet badly, as in his development of direct-current electricity that proved inferior to alternating current.
Diodes are essential in radios to turn rapidly oscillating radio waves into a smoother direct-current signal that can power a speaker.
Brazil's current investment level, direct investments in the United States currently account for 40 percent of the overall investments made by the United States and Brazil.
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None of those are quite like the foc.us, however, which serves up transcranial direct-current simulation (tDCS) -- a controversial form of neurosimulation that transmits current to a particular area of the brain.
They can carry five to 20 times more current in the same unit area while reducing the amount of energy lost as heat by 75-97% (depending on whether the current is alternating or direct), even after accounting for all the nitrogen-cooling paraphernalia.
The tricky drafting part here will be exemplifying the issue of capacity without mounting a direct critique of current government policy.
This illusion is compounded by the belief of many voters that someone else is also bearing the direct cost of current taxes.
And it could allow co-operatives like the Associated Press to reinstate anti-competitive policies that were found illegal long ago, such as allowing current members to block their direct rivals from joining.
Many companies offer a tuition reimbursement program as an employee benefit if the education has a direct impact on your current position.
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