Spang Power Electronics Announces Ethernet/IP™ ODVA Conformance Certification and Release of Product Shipments.

Spang Power Electronics, an innovator and industry leader in power control and conversion technology, has successfully achieved ODVA conformance certification for its 850 and 950 Series Digital Power Controllers’ Ethernet/IP™ network interfaces. ODVA oversees the standards and application of the open network technologies based on the Common Industrial Protocol (CIP™). It offers conformance testing and […]

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Spang Power Electronics Announces the Successful Installation and Commissioning of a Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) Reactor Power Supply Retrofit Utilizing its 950 Series Digital Power Controller at Renewable Energy Corporation (REC).

REC Silicon is an operating division of REC which produces solar grade silicon, electronic grade silicon, and silane gas. It is a leading global player in the production of high purity silicon materials with 25 years of polysilicon manufacturing expertise. REC’s engineering and management team proactively planned to replace aging and outdated power control circuitry. […]

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Spang Power Electronics Announces the 950 Digital Power Controller Product Release to the Industrial Market – Introducting a 3 Year Old!

Spang Power Electronics, an innovator and industry leader in power control and conversion technology, is pleased to acknowledge the 2006 release of the 950 Series Digital Power Controller to the industrial market. The 950 is a multifunctional Digital Signal Processor (DSP) based power controller which interfaces to a variety of power switching devices and directly […]

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Digital Series / Parallel SCR Switch

Think Power Factor. How can you keep your single-phase power factor over 0.8 while covering a wide range of output voltage? Using a transformer with dual-secondary windings and automatically choosing the right mix of both series coupled output and parallel coupled output, the Spang Power Electronics 8552 Digital Series/Parallel Switch keeps your power factor high and […]

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Digital SCR Power Controllers Reduce Energy Costs

Digital SCR Power Controllers Reduce Energy Costs By Chris McCormick, Spang Power Electronics,Mentor, Ohio andTim Horning, Signature Vacuum Systems Inc.,Meadville, Pa. Application of digital SCR (silicon controlled rectifier) power control technology saved a supplier to the glass coatings industry big dollars in real utility power costs, which gave a payback on the investment on one […]

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E-Coat Power Goes Digital with Electrocoating Rectifier Combines Advantages of Custom-Built System with Economy of Off-the-Shelf Unit

Spang Power Electronics has developed the Digi-Coat Electrocoating Rectifier, a network connectable, digitally controlled model in standard output sizes covering a wide range of electrocoating needs. Built on solid, cost-effective six-pulse technology, the Digi-Coat Rectifier outputs 0-400VDC of precisely controlled power for industrial electrocoating applications. “The Digi-Coat Rectifier combines the advantages of a custom-built system […]

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850 Series Networking Options

Now available along with DeviceNet networking for the 850 Series controllers, there are two addtional network choices  –  Profibus and Ethernet  (Modbus/TCP) interface options. These two additional network options extend the communications flexibilty of the family of digital power controllers to enable them to integrate with your factory automation systems! For further information check out […]

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Analog Vs. Digital Process Control and Fault Monitoring

Analog Vs. Digital Process Control and Fault Monitoring Because digital power controllers are capable of monitoring a number of parameters that can prove too costly to be measured by analog controllers, a change from analog to digital controllers may allow you to monitor process functions more precisely. By Christopher M. McCormick,Spang Power ElectronicsHOT SHEET KEY […]

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