Power Conversion

The AMSC Windtec™ Advantage:  Complete customer-specific development of high quality and highly efficient wind turbines from an experienced and independent company

AMSC Windtec Designs and Supplies the Complete Converter System

Due to Windtec's unique expertise in this field, the best converter systems are available for turbine manufacturers.

• Reduced number of components compared to competitive products
• Filters only where needed - no common mode filters on both sides of the converter
• IGBT converter technology with long-life foil-type capacitors
• High-frequency, common-mode filter applied to reduce "stress" on the entire electrical system
• Complete enclosed converter/control cabinet (IP54 standard)
• Fast communication between PLC and converter - a key feature to suppress oscillations on the drive train

A simple and efficient system due to Windtec's unique experience in wind turbine design.

Literature

• » Windtec Build Your Own Turbine Brochure
• » Optimizing Reactive Compensation Wind White Paper
  
• » SeaTitan™ Data Sheet
  

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Other AMSC products for wind energy

• » D-VAR® Systems
• » PowerModule™ Power Converters