Applications :
Key features and design strategies :
- Highly integrated designs for significant weight and volume savings
- Relay and contactor power switching devices, featuring numerous mounting styles, ratings and voltage switching capabilities, for either AC or DC power distribution
- AC abd DC current sensing devices for all types of required protection (such as over-current, under-and over-voltage, reverse polarity, etc.)
- Contactor and current sensing device assemblies designed as Line Replaceable Units (LRU) for easy-change installation
- Modular concepts for easy reconfiguration of future requirements
- Distributed or integrated architecture for optimization of aircraft specificities
- Plug-in module or articulated junctions to associate secondary distribution assemblies with primary distribution assemblies for enhanced troubleshooting and maintenance operations
Advanced electronic features include, upon request :
- "Design-to-safety" electronics i.e., optimized architecture to achieve the safety objectives of the equipment specifications
- BITE features such as Fully Automatic Power On Built-in-Test (PBIT) and Continuous Built-in-Test (CBIT)
- Fully reprogrammable control logic
- Over-current, short circuit, reverse current protection ; under-current indication
- TRU and battery over-temperature protection
- Under- and over-voltage protection
- Internal or external automatic reconfiguration in case of failure
- Source paralleling protection for AC distribution
- Various communication buses (ARINC 429, CAN, RS422/485, MIL-STD-1553, Ethernet buses, etc.) for internal use and for communication with man/machine interface, aircraft central computer, and other aircraft equipment
- Load reporting and management