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Available
1500 Watt Low Capacitance
Transient Voltage Suppressor
Case 1 Package
Also available in:
HiRel Case 1 package
(axial-lead)
MLCE6.5 – MXLCE170A
DO-13 (metal) package
(axial-lead)
LC6.5 – LC170A
DO-215AB and
DO-214AB package
(surface mounts)
SMCG(J)LCE6.5 –
SMCG(J)LCE170A
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This Transient Voltage Suppressor (TVS) product family includes a rectifier diode element in
series and in an opposite direction. This allows it to achieve low capacitance performance
below 100 pF (see figure 2). The low level of TVS capacitance may be used for protecting
higher frequency applications in inductive switching environments or electrical systems
involving secondary lightning effects per IEC61000-4-5 as well as RTCA/DO-160 or ARINC
429 for airborne avionics. With virtually instantaneous response, they also protect from ESD
and EFT per IEC61000-4-2 and IEC61000-4-4. If bipolar transient capability is required, two
of these low capacitance TVS devices may be used in parallel in opposite directions (anti-
parallel) for complete ac protection as shown in figure 4.
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• Unidirectional low-capacitance TVS series (for bidirectional see figure 4).
• Economical plastic encapsulated TVS series for thru-hole mounting.
• Suppresses transients up to 1500 watts @ 10/1000 µs (see figure 1 )*.
• Clamps transient in less than 100 pico seconds.
• Working voltage (VWM) range 6.5 V to 170 V.
• RoHS compliant versions available.
• Protect ion from switch ing tran sient s and induced RF.
• Low capacitance for data line protection up to 1 MHz.
• Protection for aircraft fast data rate lines up to Level 5 Waveform 4 and Level 2 Waveform 5A in
RTCA/DO-160D (also see MicroNote 130) & ARINC 429 with bit rates of 100 kb/s (per ARINC 429,
Part 1, par 2.4.1.1).
• ESD & EFT protection per IEC 61000-4-2 and -4-4.
• Secondary lightning protection per IEC61000-4-5 with 42 oh ms sour ce imp edan ce:
Class 1: LCE6. 5 to LC1 70A
Class 2: LCE6.5 to LC150A
Class 3: LCE6.5 to LC70A
Class 4: LCE6.5 to LC36A
• Secondary lightning protection per IEC61000-4-5 with 12 oh ms sour ce imp edan ce:
Class 1 : LCE6.5 to LC90A
Class 2: LCE6.5 to LC45A
Class 3: LCE6.5 to LC22A
Class 4: LCE6.5 to LC11A
• Secondary lightning protection per IEC61000-4-5 with 2 ohms source impedance:
Class 2: LCE6.5 to LC20A
Class 3: LCE6.5 to LC10A