New Industry Products

Abacus Controls Offers Power Recycler Inverters

December 17, 2000 by Jeff Shepard

Abacus Controls (Somerville, NJ) is offering a series of new inverters, called Power Recyclers, which span the power range from 3kW to 50kW. These inverters are designed to convert dc power to ac and then add the power back to the utility line. Abacus Controls envisions these products being used for dc power supply manufacturers during burn-in testing, when the product will recycle about 75 percent of the power drawn back to the utility.

These Power Recyclers come in a variety of power levels, input voltage rangesand both single and three-phase models. They are microprocessor/ASIC-controlled, and they simulate constant resistance or constant current loads. The company claims that their efficiency is typically 92 percent, and that their ambient temperature is 0 to 40 degrees C.