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E-836.1G Piezo Amplifier
PZ250E
Version: 1.0.1
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In this Chapter
Lifetime of PICMA® Actuators ..................................................................................... 35
EC Declaration of Conformity ...................................................................................... 39
12.1 Lifetime of PICMA® Actuators
The lifetime of a PICMA® piezo actuator can be influenced by the following factors:
Applied voltage
Temperature
Relative humidity
The following diagrams show how the individual factors influence the lifetime of the
actuator.
Figure 6: Dependency of the mean time between failure (MTTF) of a PICMA® actuator on the applied
voltage
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