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Evaluation kit for thermal energy harvesting

Mouser Electronics is stocking solid-state thin-film thermoelectric device evaluation kits from Micropelt. Mouser’s stock of Micropelt products includes the TE-Power NODE evaluation kit for thermal energy harvesting. Highly modular, the kit shows how free excess heat can provide a continuous power source for low-power wireless sensing applications. The kit provides customers with an easy-to-handle, plug-and-play wireless sensor system, which allows the user to explore and understand thermal harvesting and comes complete with the thermoelectric generator TE-Power Base, various power and power modules, a low-power wireless sensor module and Texas Instrument’s USB wireless receiver. Also available from Mouser is the Micropelt TE-Power PLUS evaluation kit, allowing the designer to determine the available power to drive low-power wireless applications by matching energy budget and duty-cycle control. Easily producing 100s of microwatts to some milliwatts, the harvester refills its extendable 100µF capacitor during the latency periods of the duty cycle. The TE-Power Plus has an integrated DC/DC converter that allows the user to set the desired voltage level based on the available gross power.