Posted on September 12, 2024 by Jeff -
Customize the APEM XP Series with MF Handle Your Way! The midsized, two-axis joystick is built for tough environments, offering extensive configuration options, including faceplate and backplate choices for integrating operator presence, rocker switches, and pushbuttons.
Features
- Comfortable for all hand sizes
- All metal mechanism delivers exceptional performance in a compact package
- Two-axis functionality
- Five million cycles
- Multifunction handle—able to integrate multiple APEM components, including proportional rockers and rollers
- Wrap around gaiter up to IP67 panel sealing
- Analog & CAN outputs
- Sealed electronics
Posted on September 12, 2024 by Jeff -
OTTO Controls’ illuminated K1 rocker switches snap in to industry-standard panel openings in operator armrests, grips, and panels. Sealed to IP68S and IP69K, these rockers withstand direct water spray as well as shock and vibration, making them a good choice for industrial and heavy equipment applications. Rockers are two- or three-position, momentary, or maintained action.
Choose from numerous actuator styles, light source options, and colors. Legends and non-illuminated options are available.
Features
- Withstands direct water spray
- Sealed to IP68S and IP69K
- Fits industry-standard panel openings for drop-in replacement of panel sealed & unsealed switches
- Snap-in feature accommodates a wide range of panel cutouts
- Switches up to 16 amps
- UV & solvent resistant
- Withstands extreme shock & vibration
- Custom legends available
- 2- & 3-position, momentary & maintained action
- Incandescent, LED & neon illumination with independent & dependent light source options
- UL recognized
- Ignition protected
- RoHS compliant
Posted on August 8, 2024 by Jeff -
With voltage ratings up to 1000Vdc, the Sensata | Gigavac GV Series contactors are rated to switch loads in excess of 400 amps and interrupt short circuit currents up to 3500 amps (voltage dependent).
Like all Sensata | Gigavac contactors, the GV Series can be mounted on any axis or any orientation and is sealed to withstand virtually any harsh environment. All GV Series power contactors meet RoHS and CE Conformance requirements.
Applications
- Battery electric vehicles
- DC motor controller protection
- DC motor drive protection
- DC fast charging
- Photovoltaic controls
- Energy Storage systems
- Battery electric special mobility
Click here for a battery pack application note.
Posted on August 8, 2024 by Jeff -
Hermetically sealed High-Voltage DC Contactors are the world’s smallest UL508-approved contactors for 1000V high-voltage switching. Since first introducing the ceramic seal in 2006, Sensata | Gigavac sealed contactors have become the preferred choice for any application requiring sealed switching. Utilizing a hermetical seal means these high-voltage contactors exceed the sealing requirements of IP67 and IP69.
Going beyond hermetic sealing, the HX Series can withstand the rigors of virtually any harsh environment whether underwater or in the desert sun. The HX Series of High-Voltage Hermetically Sealed Contactors are particularly suited for inverter systems, battery packs, and combiner boxes in solar or wind power systems.
Applications
- Energy Storage System
- DC fast charging
- Photovoltaic controls
Posted on August 8, 2024 by Jeff -
This line of patented MiniTACTOR power contactors is small, lightweight, and cost effective. At less than 140 grams, the Sensata | Gigavac P-Series contactor can easily be installed in any orientation on a panel or PCB in a matter of seconds. Both the contacts and the coil are contained within a hermetically sealed chamber to ensure clean switching in any environment. Safe MAKE and BREAK power switching can be achieved at any voltage up to 1500Vdc.
The UL recognized, cRUus, P115 complies with solar energy requirements under NEC 690.11 and NEC 690.12. The MiniTACTOR models have a current carry of up to 80 amps and performance specifications that you would normally find in far more expensive contactors.
Applications
- Precharge circuits
- Battery chargers
- Solar applications
Click here for a battery pack application note.
Posted on August 8, 2024 by Jeff -
GigaFuse is the world’s only hermetically sealed electromechanical fuse designed for high-voltage and high-power fuse application requirements.
The GigaFuse is a bi-directional device capable of handling system voltages up to 1000V and features both passive and active triggering options. This new design significantly reduces system resistance, eliminates thermal aging, and significantly reduces installation time, system complexity, and cost.
Features
- Functional Safety: Passive technology with electromechanical release mechanism
- Fast disconnect: <3ms clear time independent from current level
- System protection coordination: tunable trip current to easily pair with HV contactors
- Optional active control: to provide designers flexibility in active/passive protection methods
- Up to 10MW interrupt capability
- 400A continuous current carry (4/0 busbars); consult engineering for higher current
Click here for a datasheet.
Click here to read a whitepaper about the GigaFuse maximizing safety in advanced battery systems.
Posted on August 8, 2024 by Jeff -
Single-Pole Single-Throw relays provide the most straightforward approach to isolation. A single stationary contact and a moveable contact furnish a simple on-off configuration. Forms include normally open (NO) and normally closed (NC). Normally open relays provide voltage isolation until coil power is applied. With coil power applied there is continuity through the relay contacts. Normally closed relays provide continuity through closed contacts until coil power is applied where the relay contacts open providing isolation.
Sensata | Gigavac offers several design styles including High-Voltage and RF reed relays along with traditional ceramic vacuum and gas-filled High-Voltage Relays. Each of these relay design types offers unique advantages depending on the application.
Click here for an Industrial High-Voltage Relay Application and Design Guide.
Posted on August 7, 2024 by Jeff -
Single-Pole Double-Throw relays offer a normally open and a normally closed contact set in one relay. The moveable contact transfers continuity from one stationary contact to the other when the coil is energized or de-energized. Voltage isolation is then between opposing stationary contact and the moveable contact.
Sensata | Gigavac offers several design styles of vacuum and gas-filled High-Voltage Relays. Vacuum or gas as a dielectric each offers unique advantages depending on the application.
Click here for an Industrial High-Voltage Relay Application and Design Guide.
Posted on August 7, 2024 by Jeff -
Double-Pole Double-Throw relays supply two single double-throw relays, SPDT, in one relay package. This combination provides tremendous design flexibility. Dual circuit functions can be controlled with a single coil signal. Since the contacts are mechanically linked in many applications, one of the contact sets is used as an auxiliary contact to provide circuit feedback indicating the relay contact position.
Sensata | Gigavac offers several design styles of vacuum and gas-filled High-Voltage Relays. Vacuum or gas as a dielectric each offers unique advantages depending on the application.
Click here for an Industrial High-Voltage Relay Application and Design Guide.
Posted on August 7, 2024 by Jeff -
Latching relays provide a unique feature that can be used in any basic relay form, SPST, SPDT, or DPDT. Most relays and contactors are considered “fail-safe.” Fail-safe relays require coil power applied continuously to make sure the relay is switched. Once coil power is removed the moveable contact in a fail-safe relay returns to its default position.
Latching relays require a momentary coil pulse to change the position of the moveable contact. Continuous coil power is not required to keep the relay in a particular switched state. When the application circuit needs to switch a latching relay, it sends a pulse to the coil to change the moveable contact position.
Click here for an Industrial High-Voltage Relay Application and Design Guide.
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