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Lambda’s new 900W Vega gives designers more power: forty percent more power to be precise and in a unit that has exactly the same dimensions as the 650W supply. By increasing Vega’s power density to an industry-beating 0.48W/cm³, the world’s leading manufacturer of configurable power supplies is once again ensuring that designers looking for ever higher levels of power have compact, off-the-shelf solutions to meet their needs in a wide range of medical, industrial control, computing, communications and instrumentation applications.

Comments Martin Southam, Lambda European marketing director: “Vega has been a major success for Lambda. At its introduction, the 650W unit, boasting an unrivalled power density of 0.35W/cm³, set the standard for configurable AC-DC power supplies. Now our design teams have taken the technology another step forward, increasing power density to 0.48W/cm³ to give significantly more output power without any penalty in real-estate.”

The Vega 900 has no minimum load requirement, and one to ten fixed or adjustable outputs that give designers a choice of output voltages from 0.4 to 62V and output current up to 114A. Input voltage is 130-330VDC and 90-264VAC, derating below 180VAC.

The inherent versatility of Vega lies in its high degree of configurability. Output module functions include inhibit, module good, remote sense and parallel. Typical efficiency is 75% at full load and the new supply comes complete with short circuit and over voltage protection.

As well as the wide choice of output modules there are a large number of customer options. The Vega 900 can be specified without a fan for customer cooling. Input connection can be made via a choice of screw, faston or IEC320 terminals. Without fan, the Vega 900 measures 249.3 x 130.0 x 53.3mm.

CE marked in accordance with the LVD, the new supply carries a host of environmental and safety approvals including EN55022 Class B, UL1950, CSA22.2 No.950, EN60950, IEC 60950, EN61010-1, EN60601, UL2601 and UL3101-1. Standard leakage current is 1.5mA and versions with leakage currents down to 50µA are also available for medical applications.

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Vega is the fastest growing Lambda product ever and in order to meet customer demand the company has made a further significant investment in new production equipment including ATE and new automatic optical inspection equipment, valued at over £450K.