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AC/DC Power Supplies
News Release from: Murata Power Solutions | Subject: Quikflex
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 25 June 2004
Speedy access to medical supplies
A new range of modular AC/DC power supplies for medical applications has almost limitless configuration options and offers typical shipping times of around a week for first customer-configured units.
A new range of modular AC/DC power supplies for medical applications has almost limitless configuration options and offers typical shipping times of around a week for first customer-configured units The key benefit to medical applications of a modular approach is that customised low-volume solutions with safety agency approvals can be realised quickly and without prohibitive nonrecurring engineering costs (NREs)
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 25 Feb 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Custom supplies promised in less than a week
A new family of modular AC/DC power supplies has almost limitless configuration options and offers typical shipping times of less than a week for first customer-configured units.
Novel interface is perfect for convertor mounting
Position Perfect is a novel surface mount interface technology claimed to provide enhanced mechanical integrity and improved mounting accuracy for DC/DC convertors.
The new C and D Technologies Quikflex medical series will significantly reduce time-to-market while enabling the specification of customised AC/DC power supplies that are fully optimised to individual application requirements.
In addition, the flexibility offered by Quikflex allows engineers to accommodate specification changes that may occur during the development cycle without the need for resourcing or requalification.
Providing power ratings options of up to 1000W, the C and D Technologies Quikflex series enables users to configure up to 12 independent, isolated outputs with standard output voltages of 1.45 to 28V.
Further reading
Surface mount inductors have inbuilt shielding
Offering a wide range of inductance values and featuring integral EMI shielding, the latest inductors from C and D Technologies (NCL) will suit power designs that have limited PCB space.
DC/DC convertors on the right (rail) track
Offering a wide input range of 66 to 154V, the CWPN20R series of DC/DC convertors from C and D Technologies are ideally suited to applications within the rail industry.
Importantly for medical applications, the units offer creepage of 12mm and a low leakage current of less than 3005A.
Seven adjustable output modules provide current rating options of 3, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30 and 80A.
In addition to rapid production turnaround, time-to-market is further reduced by the fact that each delivered unit conforms to EN60601-1, UL2601-1 and IEC601-1.
The Quikflex range of configurable AC/DC power supplies is based around a two-transistor forward convertor front end with planar magnetic main transformer technology and modular magnetic amplifier output stages.
All units feature a universal voltage input and have input/output isolation of 3kV AC.
Products in the Quikflex family require no minimum load and provide line and load regulation of 10.1 and 0.2%, respectively.
Ripple and noise performance is specified as the greater of 1.0% or 100mV peak-peak.
Protection for overcurrent, overvoltage and overtemperature conditions is standard, while remote sense functionality is also a standard feature on single-output modules.
Configured Quikflex power supplies use industry-standard, compact four- or six-slot extruded aluminium packages.
Power connections are via screw terminal connections.
Primary and secondary controls enable power channels to be individually voltage adjusted or enabled.
In addition, these controls allow engineers to connect Quikflex modules in parallel or series to provide almost limitless power, current and voltage configurations.
Four-slot Quikflex AC/DC power supplies have dimensions of 270 x 127 x 65mm.
Six-slot versions measure 270 x 187 x 65mm.
Operating temperature for all units is -20 to +70C. Request a free brochure from Murata Power Solutions ...
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