Electronic loads from MDL offer advanced, economical power supply testing
The new 63200E series high power DC electronic loads from Chroma enable simple and economical testing of a wide range of power supplies, on-board chargers, batteries and other power electronics components. Available from MDL Technologies, the programmable loads offer market leading accuracies of up to 0.02% + 0.02% FS for voltage and 0.1% + 0.1% FS for current.
The range has three operating voltage options of 150 V, 600 V and 1200 V, with models covering power ratings from 2 kW to 24 kW and up to 2000 A in a single unit. When greater power is required up to 20 units can be linked together in parallel in a master/slave configuration to produce a total power of 480 kW.
Among the features included are CC, CR, CV and CP modes, high speed programmable dynamic loading, short circuit simulation and smart fan control.
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“These compact models save space in the laboratory and other test environments, and offer an ultra high power density of 6 kW in a 4U chassis,” said MDL managing director Mark Lucock.
Applications include high power EV battery discharge testing, charger stations, fuel cells, AC/DC power supplies, on-board chargers and burn-in testing.
Also available from MDL is the even more powerful Chroma 63200A series, which includes functions such as dynamic synchronous control to allow the generation of complex multi-channel transient profiles.
They also accept digital data from DAQ cards or analogue data from function generators to allow user defined waveforms to be created.