Thyristor power stack controllers

A thyristor stack controller is used together with an external thyristor power stack when a modular drive is not capable of delivering enough power. The external power stack can be designed to control motors up to many thousands of Amps and is controlled very simply by the same PLXD unit. Thyristor stack controllers are used in a wide range of industries where high power electric DC motors are involved, for example in hot rolling mills, plastic extruders, rubber mixers and many more.

PLXD thyristor stack controllers can be designed into a new installation, or easily retrofitted to an existing thyristor power stack where the control electronics need updating or require adding into a field bus topography network. They can be supplied with all the latest field bus protocols including Profibus, Modbus RTU, Modbus TCP/IP, CanOpen, Devicenet, Ethernet and more. The same unit is used for 2 Quadrant and 4 Quadrant power stacks. 6 Pulse and 12 Pulse can also be accommodated.

PLXD thyristor stack possess all the functionality of Sprint Electric’s PLX DC drives range. The PLXD provides gate drive pulses for driving user supplied pulse transformers with primary pulse current up to 1.5A. There are terminals to accept an externally generated isolated armature current signal, field signal, thermal heatsink sensor switch, and high voltage armature voltage feedback. The unit also provides a +24V supply for the gate drive pulse transformers that is short circuit protected.