Powerstax, one of Europe’s leading value-added power solutions manufacturers, has chosen the National Electronics Week as the venue to launch its latest power converter. The F501-385 500W output full brick high voltage DC-DC converter complements the Powerstax line– up of patented power converters allowing customers to configure compact, high power density, base plate cooled AC-DC power systems suitable for rugged environments. The wide range of field proven power converters manufactured by Powerstax offers customers a low NRE, rapid time to market power system development route.
The new Powerstax F501-385 DC-DC converter operates over the input range 355-400VDC and provides 24, 28, 48, 56VDC output and 500W power. By combining a number of F501-385 bricks in series significantly higher output voltages can be produced and if up to twenty F501-385 bricks are paralleled a 10kW system can be produced.
With a power density of 5.53W/cm3, typical efficiency of 90%, active load sharing, remote on/off, base plate cooling, low start-up temperature of -40ºC and a 2 year warranty, the Powerstax F501-385 offers users reduced energy costs, greater return on investment, greater reliability and longer product life.
The Powerstax F501-385 provides system designers with a comprehensive list of in-built protection functions such as over-voltage protection, under-voltage protection and short-circuit protection are complemented by unique features such as a thermal monitoring signal to provide early warning of potential system faults.
The Powerstax F501-385 is designed to operate as an integral part of a complete distributed power system, with or without hold-up. Typical applications for the F501-385 include military and commercial based wireless systems, radar and communication systems, telecom infrastructure and security systems.
Rob Hill, Director of Sales – EMEA for Powerstax, comments: “We are very pleased to be supporting a major electronics exhibition in the UK and have chosen to use it as the venue to make a significant new product introduction. Our sales in Europe continue to grow as customers become more aware of the benefits of our rugged, reliable power conversion products and the engineering excellence we put at their disposal.”
Powerstax designs and manufactures an extensive range of standard, value-added and custom AC & DC power solutions for a broad range of fixed and mobile applications including hot swap front– end AC-DC bulk power, DC-DC converter bricks and modules and programmable, modular rack mounted powersupplies.
The main markets served by Powerstax include industrial, defence, transportation, avionics, telecoms, datacoms, IT, test, measurement and control, medicalequipment and all commercial markets. For more information contact sales@powerstaxplc.com or visit www.powerstaxplc.com
About Powerstax:
POWERSTAX plc is a long established power electronics company (previously APC), designing, manufacturing and marketing high quality standard, custom and value-added power products. Solidly profitable with consistently growing sales revenues and strong private equity backing, Powerstax uses patented technology, has an experienced design team based in UK (over 50% of all employees are graduates) and can call on multiple technology partnerships. Powerstax has customer service centres in UK (for EMEA) and USA and is BS EN ISO9001:2008 approved.
Powerstax specialises in the design, manufacture and marketing of AC-DC and DC-DC power supplies including DC-DC converters, configurable, modular SMPS, plus AC rectifiers and bulk power PSU. In addition Powerstax provides value-added and complete custom power solutions. Powerstax provides standard and custom AC & DC power solutions for centralised and distributed power (DPA) in a broad range of applications including hot swap front end AC-DC bulk power, DC-DC converter bricks and programmable, modular rack mounted SMPS, for use in Telecoms, Datacoms, IT, Industrial, Test & Control, Transportation, Avionic, Defence, Medical and all commercial markets.
