One-Cycle Control Announces First Hardware-Enabled 3-Phase Active Power Filter
One-Cycle Control announced its OCC-APF, which leverages technology invented at Caltech & UC Irvine and developed under the California Energy Commission and California Institute for Energy & Environment. The OCC-APF is the first hardware-enabled 3-phase Active Power Filter with high reliability, extremely fast dynamics, and simple user interface, enabling harmonics cancellation and power factor correction in real-time. Harmonics can cause equipment overheating, circuit-breaker nuisance trips, transformer damage, and voltage distortion. Poor power factor can result in costly utility penalties or force expensive upgrades to facility transformers and wiring.
The OCC-APF reduces harmonics to <5% and improves power factor to >0.99, thus eliminates problems caused by harmonic-pollution and frees up capacity on the facility transformer, protection equipment and wiring. Essential to resolving the power-quality problems faced by modern facilities, the OCC-APF is designed for long-life, features high efficiency, and has a simple user interface. With industry leading compact size (~1.2 ft³) & weight (~63 lbs), the 40kVA OCC-APF is easy to wall mount or rack mount and is scalable to higher power by sliding multiple units into a standard 19" rack. The 50A OCC-APF with a voltage rating of 480, 415, and 380V is ETL listed, made in California, and available for immediate sale.
