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Ultra-Compact 3 W Wall Plug Adapters
Meet DoE Level VI and CoC Tier 2 Efficiency
Standards
CUI’s Power Group today introduced four new series of 3 W
wall plug power adapters to its portfolio of DoE Level VI and
CoC Tier 2 compliant external power supplies. The SWI3-N
and SWI3-N-USB series, available with North American input
blades, and the SWI3-E and SWI3-E-USB series, featuring
European input blades, are all certified to meet the current
average efficiency and no-load power requirements enforced
by the US Department of Energy’s (DoE) Level VI standards.
The new series are also designed to meet the European
Union’s proposed CoC Tier 2 directive, under review to
become law in 2018, which looks to further tighten the
efficiency requirements enforced by Level VI while adding a
new power consumption limit at 10% load levels.
Housed in an ultra-compact case measuring as small as 2.54
x 1.42 x 0.89 inches (64.6 x 36 x 22.5 mm), these external
ac-dc power supplies offer 5 Vdc single regulated outputs,
a wide universal input voltage range from 90 to 264 Vac,
and no-load power consumption less than 0.075 W. Thanks
to their ultra-compact design and class II construction, the
new models are ideally suited for a wide range of consumer
applications, including media players, e-readers, GPS, and
other mobile devices.
The SWI3-N and SWI3-E series feature a range of standard
dc output connector options, including micro USB type B,
while the SWI3-N-USB and SWI3-E-USB series incorporate
an integrated USB connector. Models with fixed input blades
for North American and Japanese applications carry UL/cUL
and PSE safety approvals with European fixed blade models
carrying CE and GS safety approvals. All of the wall plug
adapters offer over current, over voltage, and short circuit
protections and comply with FCC Part 15 Class B limits for
EMI/EMC.
NI Announces Industry’s First PXI
Chassis With 58 W of Power and Cooling per
Slot
The new chassis is also NI’s quietest PXI Express
chassis in its 38 W cooling profile mode
NI, the provider of platform-based systems that
enable engineers and scientists to solve the world’s
greatest engineering challenges, announced today
the PXIe-1095 chassis, the industry’s first PXI Chassis
with 58 W of dedicated power and cooling per slot.
This represents a 50 percent increase in power and
cooling per slot compared to previously released NI
PXI Express chassis. In addition to higher power, the
new chassis also features a significant reduction in fan
noise in its 38 W cooling profile mode, delivering a 13
dB improvement compared to the previously released
PXIe-1085 chassis and making it NI’s quietest PXI
Express chassis.
“With 58 W of power and cooling in every slot of
our newest chassis, we can continue to expand the
PXI platform to serve even the most challenging
instrumentation needs of our customers,” said Steve
Warntjes, vice president of R&D, modular instruments
at NI. “This new chassis will not only provide more
power and cooling for power-hungry FPGA processing
applications, but also provide higher power budgets for
future PXI modules.”
In addition to providing higher power and lower fan
noise, the 18-slot PXIe-1095 chassis offers two hot-
swappable, redundant 1,200 W power supplies for
high-availability applications. Using PCI Express Gen 3
technology, the new chassis features 24 GB/s of system
bandwidth for high-throughput peer-to-peer or peer-
to-disk data transfer applications. Furthermore, the
chassis offers an optional timing and synchronization
upgrade that includes a built-in OCXO for increased
clock accuracy and external clock and trigger routing.
Finally, like all NI PXI Chassis, the PXIe-1095 includes
software resources for monitoring system health data
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