Typical applications include testing battery packs for electric vehicles, powering furnaces in semiconductor wafer manufacturing, electrochemical electrolysis processing, and testing solar inverters. The new products, which lack a front touchscreen display, are designed for use in ATE production systems and automated process control systems requiring high power.

The 60 kW models achieve maximum output voltages from 360 V to 2000 V and maximum currents from 480 A to 80 A; while the 30 kW models achieve maximum output voltages from 60 V to 2000 V and maximum currents from 1000 A to 40 A. In total, the 60 kW series comprises 21 models and the 30 kW series 29 models, allowing engineers to select the perfect model for their specific applications. The increased power capacity allows engineers to reduce the number of power instruments required for a high-power system, saving critical rack space and delivering more power in a smaller footprint.

With a 60 kW series in a 6U chassis and a 30 kW series in a 4U chassis, EA Elektro-Automatik offers the highest power density on the market. Markus Schyboll, Managing Director of EA Elektro-Automatik, states: “With the new 60 kW and 30 kW industrial series, EA Elektro-Automatik offers cost-effective, space-saving solutions that prioritize the lowest total cost of ownership with the highest safety standards. Our models feature protection against overcurrent, overvoltage, overpower, and overtemperature, and our new bidirectional power supplies and regenerative electronic loads offer power factors of 0.99 and recover up to 96% of the absorbed energy to return it to the grid.”

Supports systems with a capacity of up to 3.84 MW.
Test engineers can connect up to 64 units of the 10000 Series power supplies or electronic loads in parallel using the master-auxiliary bus (formerly known as the master-slave bus) to allow a single device to control all the equipment in a system that can operate in parallel up to 3.84 MW. The system can be created with any combination of equipment models belonging to the EA 10000 Series family. A galvanically isolated Share-Bus interface on each device ensures that all instruments safely share load requirements so that the equipment is not overloaded.

Save on instrument costs and rack space.
A 60 kW capacity in a single chassis allows engineers to reduce the number of instruments required for a high-power system, resulting in significant savings in both capital costs and critical rack space. Furthermore, eliminating the front panel display saves even more on equipment costs.

Save test development time with consistent operation across all models.
All 10000 Series devices operate with the same firmware and have similar input/output characteristics. Common programming and a user interface save test development and configuration time when creating control and test systems that require multiple power instruments.

Access higher voltage and current capacity in a single device with true autoranging.
All 10000 Series devices employ an autoranging output feature (input if it is an electronic load). Autoranging allows the device to have higher voltage capacity at lower currents and higher current capacity at lower voltages than a power supply or load with a conventional rectangular input/output characteristic. In addition, a device with an autoranging input/output can deliver/accept its full power output over a significant portion of its operating range. This contrasts with an instrument with a rectangular output characteristic, which only delivers maximum power at its maximum voltage and current. Unlike competing equipment that offers an autoranging function, the advantage of EA's true autoranging capability for a test engineer is access to a wider range of voltages and currents, allowing them to test more equipment without needing additional instruments.

Simulate power devices and create AC + DC signals with an optional integrated arbitrary waveform function generator.
EA-PU power supplies, EA-PUB bidirectional power supplies, and EA-PUL electronic loads are available with an integrated full-function generator (optional via software) to create complex signals that operate with DC bias and simulate the characteristics of various devices, such as solar cells, batteries, and fuel cells. Special functions enable maximum power point tracking (MPPT) and EN 50530 solar panel inverter testing, as well as test sequences based on LV123, LV124, and LV148 standards for testing automotive components and systems. The optional function generator simplifies the task of simulating multiple devices and creating output (or input) sequences to meet key testing standards by eliminating the need for external waveform-generating instrumentation to safely interface with an EA Elektro-Automatik instrument.

It communicates easily with PCs and programmable logic controllers (PLCs).
The 10000 Series instruments work effectively in either PC-controlled test systems or PLC-controlled industrial processes. Engineers can easily program the instruments using SCPI or Modbus programming modes. The 10000 Series instruments feature a set of galvanically isolated interfaces. Standard interfaces are Ethernet, USB, and analog, while optional interfaces include CAN, CANopen, RS-232, Profibus, Modbus, Profinet, and EtherCAT.

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