With over 400 manufacturers of DC/DC converters worldwide, it becomes a hard job to make a well-considered choice of the correct converter for your application. Therefore, MechaTronix works with 4 of the finest and most renomated power companies worldwide, each with their own strengths and specialism.
Open frame DC/DC- 5~50WA rather limited market, but due to cost pressure on the projects increasing
The same formats and topologies from the AC/DC world are used in the designs
Closed frame DC/DC- 15~1,000WMainly due to many battery backup applications this market is highly expanding
Most closed frame DC/DC converters can be set at the specific needed battery charge
voltages
Module DC/DC (PCB mount)- 1~150WCertainly the most known field for DC/DC converters
With the downward pricing of Asian low wattage converters the design of secondary
voltages with discrete componenets is almost completely taken over by these converters
Single-in-line (SIL) models now range to 3W, Dual-in-line (DIL) models up to 60W
For higher power the tlelcom standard brick sizes are mainly appied
New developments in synchronous rectification and active clamping make that design become extreme
compact.
Today a 15W converter only needs 1 "x1" of board space.
Since EMI and thermal design are much better controlled in the last years many new
designs are developed without encapsulation and foreseen for SMD mounting
19" Vertical DC/DC (cassettes)- 40~4,000W These power supplies became less and less popular in the last years because of the
high prices compared to closed frame and open frame power supplies.
Recently some Asian manufacturers have taken over this market what makes it
economically re-considerable to reuse power cassettes
19" horizontal DC/DC (shelves)- 100~40,000W Coming from the telecom field, but more and more applied in machine building to
create distributed power systems
Also here the high-end Asian manufacturers are opening a totally new price world in
these systems
Our systems offer standardisation, hot swap function, remote readout and unbeatable
prices