RS, a global product and service solutions provider for industrial customers, has officially announced the launch of its latest product in Phoenix Contact TRIO3 Power Supplies, the world’s first power supplies with integrated circuit breakers.
According to certain reports, the stated innovation happens to bear a design suitable for helping machine builders overcome common challenges, as well as for empowering them to access space, energy, and cost savings, easy handling, and smart diagnostics. Not just that, like we briefly touched on, you can also enjoy integrated multi-channel circuit breakers to realize superior device protection and system performance.
To understand the significance of such a development, we must take into account how machine builders actually play an important role in the industry market by developing machinery and subsystems that are essential in order to conduct manufacturing and material handling operations across various segments. These segments include F&B, pharmaceutical, automotive, transportation, and oil and gas etc. Now, given the variability of its targeted market, the stated machinery also runs into various challenges like accommodating space and cost constraints, optimizing availability, preventing unplanned downtime, generating energy efficiency, and ensuring employee and equipment safety.
In response, Phoenix Contact has expanded on its proven portfolio of compact, robust, and reliable TRIO power supplies. You see, the new TRIO3 power supplies combine the core capabilities of TRIO POWER series with the industry’s first integrated circuit breaker.
Talk about the benefits of doing so on a slightly deeper level, we begin from its promise to provide robust device protection. Leveraging Configurable NEC Class II outputs, the technology is able to provide safe, flexible protection for four or eight channels. In an emergency, the technology can also reliably drop problematic channels in priority order to protect the entire system from overload. It also boasts compliance with UL and Class 1 Division 2 standards to ensure safe operation in hazardous environments.
Next up, TRIO3 power supplies allow you to achieve significant space savings. You see, by integrating the circuit breaker into the power supply and employing front-facing connection technology, the solution cuts down on the amount of rail space required. Markedly enough, the compact TRIO3 form factors have a low width and installed depth and support side-by-side mounting to maximize available space in small.
Not just space savings, RS’ latest brainchild is even well-equipped to realize meaningful cost savings. Thanks to their Integrated circuit breakers, the TRIO3 power supplies can eliminate the need of purchasing power supplies with multiple breakers, trip characteristics, or currents. Beyond that, they eliminate the problem of blown fuses, which translates to more cost savings in terms of reducing both the unplanned downtime and material, as well as labor costs associated with replacing fuses. In case that wasn’t enough, TRIO3 power supplies use 70% less wiring than the rest of the range, thus significantly reducing installation costs.
Complementing that same would be the technology’s ease of use. In essence, these plug-and-play power supplies are provided with specialized push-in connection facility which supports quick, reliable connections without any tools. Alongside that, they are understood to feature integrated marking fields that can be used in electrical idle detector (EID) and circuit marking, potentiometers with mechanical locks to ensure tamper-proof performance, pictograms that communicate appropriate stripping lengths, and an intuitive commissioning concept.
Then, there is the prospect of energy efficiency, a prospect which users can leverage to set the current of each channel to satisfy specific application without worrying about power disruption or wasted energy. This, like you can guess, further reduces costs and supports sustainability efforts. To go with that, TRIO3 power supplies also have a dynamic boost feature, where you will see a powerful output characteristic curve that can efficiently provide up to 150% of the nominal power for five seconds to support short-term power increases like starting motors,
Rounding up highlights would be the availability of smart diagnostics. Here, you are likely to receive a multicolor LED status display, a collective relay contact, and optional IO-Link communications support intelligent visual and preventative function monitoring.
