CD Automation, thanks to its 30 years of experience, manufactures thyristor power units of the highest quality, intended for industrial automation and supported internationally by a system of branches and partners of primary importance in the industrial thermoregulation sector.
CD Automation products are used in a variety of application areas, including:
- packaging
- wood finishing
- steel heating treatments
- plastic extrusion
- glass industry
- oil & gas
- UV lamps
- MoSi2 elements
- SiC elements
- inductive loads
- normal resistors
- infrared lamps
Today we take a look to the products that CD Automation offers for application with infrared heater.
The different types of infrared
Below you can find a distinction between the different types of infrared: short, medium, long waveform.
Let’s look at them in detail
- short waveform: peak current about 7 times nominal current. Attention must be payed in sizing the thyristors
- ultra-short waveform: peak current about 16 times nominal current. Attention must be payed in sizing the thyristors
- medium waveform: peakcurrent equal to nominal current. No attention must be payed to peak current
- fast medium waveform: These elements are in thungsten like short type and the peak current is lower but the necessary time to beheated is longer and this stresses the thyristors
- long waveform: peak current equal to nominal current. No attention must be payed in sizing the thyristors
In car industry and in other special applications the short IRW are supplied with very low voltage compared with the nominalone to change the IRW penetration.
Cure must be used for these applications for current sizing of thyristors. In fact, must be used the normal precaution for short waveform plus extra precaution for voltage supply lower than the nominal that causes a lower peak but a very long overcurrent that stresses the thyristors.
To calculate the correct sizing you can contact CD Automation.
CD Automation products in the infrared lamps sector
CD Automation, for this type of applications, provides a complete panel that includes: cabinet, thyristor unit, temperature or humidity controller with automatic / manual control (the temperature can be detected with a thermocouple or pyrometer), and an input for speed can be the master setpoint or a power trim set.
To meet the needs of its customers, CD Automation offers the ideal solutions according to the type of infrared lamp connection. To view the suitable products for each connection, click on the links below:
- IR Lamp SW 1PH Connection
- IR Lamp IRSW Delta Star No Neutral
- IR Lamp IRSW Star With Neutral
- IR Lamp IRSW Open Delta
Do you work in the infrared lamp production sector and are you interested in knowing more about CD Automation’s offer? Contact us! A team of experts is at your disposal!
