Companies cooperate to bring intelligence to power switching

Power Insight allows users to monitor the key system parameters at the IGBT switch during system operation. It enables preventative action rather the Black Box approach, where you find out what happened after the event, alluded to by Steve Evans.

Avago, a leading supplier of industrial fibre optic solutions, and Amantys deployed teams to work together last year to bring to bring improved system information to its customers. As part of this co-operation Avago will develop a Versatile Link solution that benefits from the Amantys Power Insight capability.

The two companies will demonstrate how Amantys Power Insight has been deployed to optimise the transceiver transmit power, a critical factor in the lifetime of fibre optic products at next week’s PCIM exhibition in Nuremberg (May 20-22).

The efficacy of Power Insight was revealed at last year’s PCIM show when the Amantys stand hosted a team from a Portuguese railway company who monitored a traction converter in a train 1000 kilometres away in Lisbon.

The ability to adapt their system during operation achieves improved performance, availability and product life.

Power Insight provides several important capabilities also include:

• Reporting back detailed fault codes which help the system operator understand the nature of problems in the switch
• Configuring the switching characteristics of the IGBT module remotely to match operational demands