Pioneering intelligent control for high performance solar cells
An exciting collaboration between our Italian Sales team alongside our French R&D and applications teams has resulted in a huge success with one of our customers for their Solar Panels.
An outstanding solution for our client, a world leader and pioneer of design & development of wafer technologies used for the manufacture of solar panels.
Our solution is a power control panel for reactor control. The panel controls immense levels of power – 1.7M Watts based on EPower technology and water cooled thyristors.
We have developed and tested a new LTC block application with EPower controllers allowing very accurate power control on multi tap transformers and perfect continuity of power during the transformer taps switches — the result is best in class.
The LTC is a method of improving the perceived power factor and harmonic distortion when controlling a load that is required to be driven in phase angle firing mode.
This is achieved by automatically switching a number of taps on the load transformer. This control can be performed on the primary of the transformer where the maximum tap voltage is the limiting factor or the secondary of the transformer where the max current is the limiting factor.
Our client were astounded by the quality and the stability of power control provided by EPower technology.
Their expectation was very high but our engineers pushed the boundaries exceeding this and creating a viable commercial solution born from the requirement of this specific project. This process has to be extremely accurate and the requirement is for absolutely no break in the power supply during the process.
We outstripped our nearest competitor whose offering was tailored and a more complex solution and less technologically advanced than our EPower solution.
Alongside this they were won over by the technical expertise and professionalism of our team who understood the complex requirement and rose to the challenge in providing an innovative solution. Without doubt this application is one of the best power solutions in the world today.
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