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Energy Recycling AC & DC Loads
SmartPower ATE’s electronic loads are ideal where high power bulk loading is required for burn-in and characterisation applications within Telecommunication and Aerospace sectors.
SmartPower ATE’s environmental stress screening (ESS)/Burn-in solutions facilitate test of:
DC/AC Regenerative Loads
Power Electronics Converters
Power Electronics Test/Repair
LoadSaver ‘Green Loads’
SmartPower ATE’s LoadSaver ‘Green Loads’ offer a revolutionary recycling technique where 85% of the power drawn from the mains is recycled. This significantly reduces large energy bills associated with testing using conventional system loads.
With multi-drop interfaces, the software can control and monitor up to 32 LoadSaver units and hence up to 320 individual load channels, managed and displayed to a user defined format. This software can readily integrate additional OEM test equipment. It manages data collection and facilitates full load profiling and power cycling functions.
Typical Applications for Burn-in/RSS
Burn-in and RSS Applications
PC Power Supplies
Medical Equipment PSUs
Low to Medium AC/AC Power Supplies
Low to Medium Power Inverters
Low to Medium AC/DC Power Supplies
Distributed Power Front-end AC/DC Converters
Encapsulated Linear AC/DC Converters
External AC/DC Converters
Universal Input Switch Mode Converters
Non-isolated DC/DC Regulators
Surface Mount DC/DC Converters
Base Station Rectifiers
Rack mounted PABX Power Supplies
DC/DC converters for Distributed Power Systems
Power Sharing PSU’s
Radio Station Telecommunication Power Supplies
Performance, reliability and flexibility are inherent characteristics across all three standard AC/DC product families. ELU60, ELU120 and ELU500 formats are available to cover a wide range of voltage, current and power combinations. A powerful software interface allows paralleling load channels or LoadSaver systems together to increase the overall power levels.
The AC/DC LoadSaver product range is both compact and versatile, modular system architecture means systems are fully upgradeable. Furthermore, the need for fixed high current cabling is eliminated, leaving the customer with a mobile system ready for use via a simple plug-in mechanism.
The modular LoadSaver architecture also supports ease of maintenance with minimum down time, while expansion is literally plug and play. Systems can therefore be rapidly configured to meet your immediate requirements or upgraded to allow for future needs. Load calibration could not be simpler using the automated software calibration facility of the ESCM card. System control and monitoring is performed across the RS232, RS485 multi-drop or IEEE488 communication interface which simplifies integration with existing systems.
SmartPower ATE’s range of DC/DC burn-in systems offers a cost effective and flexible approach to the test and burn-in of DC/DC power supplies. Systems can test a diverse range of converter types and customers can specify their choice of load including:
- Energy re-cycling
- Active Constant current
- Passive Resistive
The DC/DC burn-in solution was designed to meet with recent trends in the power supply market such as reductions in PSU output voltages and increased current levels. These configurations implement economical full power burn-in of EUT’s, using energy recycling technology ensuring lower energy costs as well as reducing the site facility installation costs.
Because all burn-in systems are not the same SmartPower ATE’s DC/DC solutions provide a variety of configurations to suit different levels of burn-in required such as Basic Static Burn-in, Enhanced Static Burn-in, Dynamic Burn-in, and Enhanced Dynamic Burn-in.
system examples
System from the LoadSaver ELU Family
Low to medium power ESS (Environmental Stress Screening)/Burn-in System
Recycles approximately 80% of the Load energy from the mains supply
Reduces air conditioning and cooling requirements
LoadSaver High Power Burn-In Unit
Recycles 85% of the load energy
Reduced air-conditioned facility requirements
High power product life cycle test
SmartPower ATE continually develop product lines in close collaboration with customers delivering a wide range of test solutions to meet with customer requirements regardless of the complexity. For more information click on the following links or contact your nearest SmartPower sales office or representative.