Programmable DC power

Powerbox has introduced the XTR series of power supplies from Xantrex.

Designed for test, production, laboratory, OEM and quality assurance applications, the series provides features to ensure accuracy. It supplies clean DC power and delivers stable, variable output voltage and current for a broad range of development, test and system requirements.

High frequency, soft switching provides up to 850 W in a 1U half-rack package. There are 12 models.

The series is supplied with USB 2.0, RS232, RS485, isolated and non-isolated analog interfaces to provide options to connect to a PC or other network device. Ethernet and GPIB interfaces are available as options.

The supplies can be connected in parallel or series to produce greater current or voltage and up to 30 XIRs can be connected via an RS485 bus to provide flexibility in remote programming. This eliminates the cost and complexity of requiring GPIB cards in each unit.

Once connected, multiple supplies can be controlled via a single LAN, USB 2.0, GPIB, RS232 or RS485 interface.