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CAMTEC POWER SUPPLIES, the German recognised specialist for particularly robust capacitive loads and laboratory power supplies, is expanding its successful portfolio of AC inrush current limiters: The new CAMTEC ESB001 series is now available worldwide.
The ESB001 inrush- current limiter series is by far world’s smallest of its performance class. It requires just 1 TE (17.5mm) space on the top-hat rail, which is just the dimension of a single-phase circuit breaker. The series’ name ESB stands for ‘EinschaltStromBegrenzer’ – the German term for this type of device.
The reason for the enormous worldwide increase in demand for inrush current limiters from CAMTEC Power Supplies in safety-relevant networks over the last decade is easy to understand: In a network with inrush current limiters, the sum of all inrush currents in the sub-distribution network is kept extremely low. This makes the network stable and fail-safe. What’s more, not having to switch on the different network areas one after the other while being able to use simpler components in the electrical system, saves up to ten percent of the total costs when planning lighting, tunnel, or industrial electrical installations.
With low heat dissipation of only 1.1 W @230Vac at 99.97% efficiency, the new ESB001 components can be mounted wall-to-wall with adjacent devices in the control cabinet. This makes the new ESB001 devices the perfect solution wherever control cabinet space is at a premium – such as LED retrofits in buildings or street lighting. The new, small design also makes them suitable for displays in store solutions, showcases at airports or in city centres.
In addition, the CAMTEC ESB001 retains all the features and benefits of the original ESB101 and ESB303 series. Those were also developed, designed, and manufactured by CAMTEC Power Supplies in the Black Forest – and have been used for more than a decade, wherever particularly reliable protection of lighting and machinery applications is required.
Global distributors will offer two versions of the new ESB001 series: The ESB001.LED.230VAC perfectly supports LED lighting networks in buildings, street, and tunnel lighting. The ESB001.24.230VAC is suitable for protecting against contact fires on load relays or protecting multiplexed MUX channels from harmful inrush currents in industrial environments, and in the building automation.
The ESB001 complies with the demanding industry standards EN61010-1, EN61010-2-201 as well as the current IT standard EN62368-1. They are completely EMC neutral and can be used – just like the CAMTEC ESB101 and ESB303 limiters – in all frequencies from 16 2/3 Hz railroad networks up to 400Hz on-board networks. They can be purchased from all CAMTEC Power Supply distributors worldwide: https://www.camtec-powersupplies.com/salespartners
