Bourns is a U.S. manufacturer of electronic components that started as a small home-based workshop and grew into a company with a wide range of products. Their main product line focuses on adjustable resistors. Bourns offers precision resistance potentiometers, panel controllers, encoders, resistor and capacitor networks, chip resistors, inductors, transformers, recoverable fuses, overvoltage protectors for thyristors, lightning protection for communication systems, gas discharge tubes, telephone base station protectors, industrial signal protection, irrigation and oil protection, coaxial cable protectors, signal data protectors, indoor and outdoor POT splitters, network interface devices, and integrated circuits.