Promation recently expanded their in-line label placement stations by adding a “Print on Demand” feature prior to the pick-and-place function.

ELC-100 is a standard in-line label pick-and-place station that uses the customer’s pre-printed label rolls. ELC-200 allows customers to print their labels (based upon select criteria) and have them placed on the PCB.

Both stations can accurately place labels, ranging from 7 x 7 mm to 40 x 40 mm, through the use of an x/y gantry and touch panel interface. Clamshell design allows full access to the labeling system.

Available with YL and LLX size internal conveyors.

Promation, pro-mation-inc.com

nLight, a manufacturer of high-power semiconductor lasers, has released a near-infrared (NIR) diode laser that emits 3W continuous-wave (CW) power from a single, 100-micron broad area emitter. Available in a C-Mount or High Heat Load (HHL) package, the high-brightness, 808-nm, multimode diode laser is a pump source for solid-state lasers, and heat or illumination source for medical and industrial applications.

Has an operating current of 2.8A and compliance voltage of 1.85V. Beam divergence is <36 degrees by <10 degrees, FWHM.  As an added feature, nLight can include an AR-coated cylinder lens to collimate the fast-axis to <2 degrees, FWHM, with >95% power transmission.

NLight, nLight.net 

To better serve the small volume user, Alpha-Core now stocks Round Magnet Wire from 34  to 14 AWG on 10 lb spools and Tinned Solid Copper Wire on 2 lb and 10 lb spools. Tinned solid wire, available both round and flat from 36 to 22 AWG, is used in pins and PCB connections while the magnet wire is used in board-mounted components in power supplies, voice coils in speakers and motor coils.

Alpha-Core, www.alphacore.com

CM1230 is the newest solution in the family of PicoGuard ultra low capacitance diode arrays for electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection of high-speed serial interfaces. With a space efficient CSP and an ultra low input capacitance of 0.8 pF per channel, is said to be the industry’s smallest form factor low capacitance ESD diode solution.

Data interfaces such as high-speed serial data interfaces for mobile handset displays as well as USB 2.0 and Serial ATA interfaces found in many digital consumer and computing applications require robust ESD protection for high value SOCs with low levels of capacitance and inductance to preserve signal integrity. Providing protection against ESD strikes up to ±8kV contact and ±15kV air discharge, the CM1230 meets the performance requirements of these applications.      

California Micro Devices Corp., www.calmicro.com