Evaluation Board facilitates PFC circuit testing.

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Featuring all necessary control and power circuitry, as well as required inductor, PFC Evaluation Board tests power factor correction modules. It offers correction to near unity power factor and better than 95% efficiency, allowing it to evaluate switching power supplies from 500-3,000 W, motor drives, servo amplifiers, solenoid drivers, SSRs, and 3-phase rectifier bridges. Accepting 85-265 Vrms input voltage at 50-60 Hz, board handles up to 3 kW of power with cooled heatsink.



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BI Technologies Offers Evaluation Board for PFC Circuit Testing



ANAHEIM, CA (February 26, 2007) - Providing power supply engineers with a means to test their circuit designs, TT electronics BI Technologies Electronic Components Division offers a PFC (power factor correction) evaluation board. The ready-to-run evaluation board contains all of the necessary control and power circuitry, along with the required inductor assembled onto a compact board, to test power factor correction modules.

"We developed the evaluation board to make the design process easier for customers," said Mike Ochoa-Hougan, product manager for BI Technologies Electronic Components Division. "The board allows designers to test their circuits to ensure that the module will operate at a specified tolerance. If there is a deviation, the evaluation board will detect it."

The PFC evaluation board features correction to near unity power factor and better than 95% efficiency, allowing it to accurately evaluate a variety of applications, including switching power supplies from 500W to 3000W, motor drives, servo amplifiers, solenoid drivers, solid state relays and three-phase rectifier bridges.

The evaluation board accepts 85 to 265 Vrms input voltage at 50Hz to 60Hz, and is capable of handling up to 3kW of power with a cooled heatsink.

BI Technologies also offers a series of PFC modules in three standard configurations. Designated the 7720 Series, the modules suit power supplies ranging from 500W to 3000W, and are capable of replacing up to ten TO220 or TO247 discrete power semiconductors required to achieve power factor correction in a conventional power supply design.

Pricing for PFC evaluation board is $199. Lead time is from stock to 12 weeks.
For more information about BI Technologies' PFC evaluation board, contact BI Technologies at 714-447-2518, by fax at 714-388-0046; by mail at 4200 Bonita Place, Fullerton, CA 92835; or visit: http://www.bitechnologies.com/products/microcircuits.htm.

BI Technologies has been an innovator and leader in electronic components for more than 50 years. The company is a global manufacturer of trimming and precision potentiometers, position sensors, turns-counting dials, chip resistor arrays, resistor networks, integrated passive networks, transformers, inductors, hybrid microelectronics and custom integration products for communication, computer, automotive and industrial applications.

BI Technologies serves a global customer base with manufacturing locations in the United States, Mexico, Scotland, Japan, China and Malaysia.

TT Electronics plc is a global electronics company manufacturing a broad range of advanced electronic components, assemblies and sensor modules for the automotive, industrial, telecommunication, computer and aerospace markets.

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