Temperature (°C)
-55 -35 -15 525456585 105 125
0.7
0.8
0.9
1.0
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4
1.5
Normalized Resistance
Voltage (V)
-1.2
-1.0
-0.8
-0.6
-0.4
-0.2
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
0.8
1.0
1.2
403020100-10-20-30-40
Normalized Current
Temperature (°C)
-55 -35 -15 525456585 105 125
0
0.25
0.50
0.75
1.00
1.25
1.50
1.75
2.00
Normalized Trip Current
Specifications are subject to change without notice.
The device characteristics and parameters in this data sheet can and do vary in differ-
ent applications and actual device performance may vary over time.
Users should verify actual device performance in their specific applications.
TCS-DL Series - TCS
™
Dual Transient Current Suppressors
Performance Graphs
Normalized V-I Curve Under Surge Conditions
Resistance Change vs. Temperature
Graph 1 below shows a normalized Typical V-I curve for Bourns
®
TCS
™
DL Series High-Speed Protector products under surge
conditions. Graphs 2 and 3 show the change in resistance and
trip current versus temperature, respectively.
Trip Current Change vs. Temperature
SURGE PROTECTION
The Bourns
®
TCS™ High-Speed Protector is designed to be
used in conjunction with a suitable overvoltage limiting device,
such as a TVS diode or a TISP
®
thyristor as shown below, to
provide comprehensive current and voltage limiting protection
against surges.
Coordination of Bourns
®
TCS
™
High-Speed Protector with Overvoltage
Limiting Device
This two-stage protection limits the maximum voltage at the
interface to the clamping voltage of the overvoltage device,
while also limiting the current into the protected device to the
dened limit of the Bourns
®
TCS
™
High-Speed Protector.
Designers should choose a Bourns
®
TCS
™
High-Speed
Protector with a current limit that the protected device can
handle for the duration of the surge event.
The Bourns
®
TCS
™
High-Speed Protector acts like a low value
resistor during normal operation. As the Bourns
®
TCS
™
High-
Speed Protector has no electrical connection to anything other
than the signal line it protects, the capacitance to ground is
purely dictated by the capacitance of the device to surrounding
components and PCB traces, which with careful layout can be
kept to an absolute minimum.
The Bourns
®
TCS
™
High-Speed Protector can block voltages
up to 40 V. This enables very low voltage electronics to be
protected by a lower capacitance, higher voltage TVS device,
thus achieving very low capacitive loading on high-speed signal
lines. For example, on a 3.3 V driver, a 12 V rated TVS may
be used, having much lower and more linear capacitance than
a lower voltage type. Even though a high voltage TVS is used,
the maximum stress seen by the protected device is much
lower than would be seen by using a low voltage TVS by itself,
as the current is limited to within the maximum limits of the
Bourns
®
TCS
™
High-Speed Protector.
The Bourns
®
TCS
™
High-Speed Protector is primarily designed
to offer superior and cost-effective protection of sensitive
electronics against high energy surges that are transient in
nature. Unlike the more complex TBU
®
High-Speed Protector
device, the TCS
™
Protector does not exhibit a strong foldback
Basic Device Operation
PROTECTED
DEVICE
VOLTAGE
LIMITING
DEVICE
TRANSIENT
SURGE
Bourns
®
TCS
™
HSP