Power Electronics, Electronic Components and Electronic Assembly Parts
Westek Electronics's Power Electronics Division offer a range of power electronics components and assemblies. These devices are for the most demanding applications of high frequency and high current applications.
Key Features of Power Semiconductor Components
- Phase control and distributed gate (fast turn-off) SCRs
- Gate Turn Off Thyristors (GTO)
- High frequency thyristors for induction furnaces and UPS etc
- Rectifier diodes and fast recovery diodes
- Fast acting semiconductor fuses
- Rectifier assemblies for electro winning and battery charging
- Diode products including epitaxial wafers, PIN diodes and varactors
- High energy Metal Oxide Varistors (MOV)
- High voltage diodes and stack assemblies
Key Features if Power Electronics, Components and Assemblies
Pulse Transformers and Electromagnetic Equipment
The Schaffner range of pulse transformers from Westek Electronics includes single, and fully potted, multi-output winding pulse transformers suitable for applications including:
- Ignition of Triacs, Thyristors, SCRs and IGBT’s
- Driving bi-polar transistors
- MOSFETs
- Line coupling for high speed data transmission
- DC converters with very high galvanic isolation
Power Capacitors
- Commutation, surge discharge and smoothing
- Filtering capacitors
- Buffer storage capacitors for chopper applications
- Low inductance AC/DC axial design capacitors
- PCB mounting capacitors and suitable for commutation, smoothing, surge discharge and DC link energy storage
- Customised designs including customer specific housings
- High voltage capacitors
- Power factor correction capacitors
Variac Variable Transformers
- Continuously variable Dimmerstat auto transformers and voltage stabilisers for applications from the testing of electrical and electronic equipment to power regulation in industrial processes such as plating rectifiers, cathodic protection rectifiers and battery chargers
- Manually variable auto transformers
- Air cooled as well as oil cooled types
- Motor-driven single and three-phase configurations
- Variable transformers remotely using 4-20 mA process control loops.
The Automatic Electric Dimmerstat current range spans from below one amp to several hundreds of amps in oil-cooled constructions and Westek Electronics can provide tailor made assemblies to suit virtually any application.
DC Power Supplies
- Stacking, modular DC-DC and AC-DC power supplies that are easily customised
- Configurations comprising of 6-slot and 4-slot mainframe including AC/DC inputs
- Adjustable voltage ranges from 1.5 VDC to 3.6 VDC at the low end and up to 28 to 58 VDC
- High power efficiency, handling up to 1200 watts supplied with EMC filtering
Surge Diverters
- Field-mounted Zymax lightning and surge barriers designed to fit onto spare gland holes on most commercially available 2-, 3- and 4-wire process control transmitters
- Wide bandwidth devices for field bus installations
- High current gas arrestors rated at 20 kA
Pure Sine-Wave DC to AC Inverters
- Single phase medium to high power, high efficiency DC to AC inverters provide users with very low distortion sine wave outputs with a voltage THD of less than 3%, including even the low power units rated at 200 Watts
- IGBT half-bridge, full bridge and three-phase inverter cards for applications including traction, UPS, variable speed drives, battery chargers and industrial frequency converters
Visit the Westek Electronics website for more information on the range of power electronics components.