Whether looking at domestic car chargers or solar-power systems: The increasing automation and electrification of our daily lives is leading to a growing demand for safe, robust and energy-efficient ways to switch relatively large amounts of power.
The challenge for designers who want – or rather have to - use high-voltage relays is that to date many of them have been relatively large, standalone components, designed to be mounted as a separate unit with wired connections to a control board.
That means additional costs in terms of components and extra hand assembly. And every interconnection, from board to leads to socket to relay connection creates a potential reliability issue.
With the release of its pioneering HE-relays, Panasonic Industry enables the customer now to use PCB technology for high current applications:
With careful material choices, intelligent design decisions and due respect for the physics of transmitting large amounts of energy at high voltages – having in mind especially the suppressing of arcing – Panasonic succeeded in the functional integration of relays even in challenging circumstances.
The result for designers is smaller, cheaper and more efficient power control circuits to serve a widening portfolio of applications. The advantage for consumers is the emergence of new ways to safely use electrical energy to achieve greater convenience and efficiency in their lives.
Key Features
- Switching current up to 120A AC (HE-N)
- Switching voltage up to 1,000VDC (HE-V)
- Galvanic separation, large contact gap
- Extreme low contact resistance
- Low coil power dissipation
- Temperature range: -40° to 85°C
- Conform to UL and VDE, further
- approvals on request