High-Power LBC Series Railway Battery Chargers

Bel Power Solutions, a Bel group company and premier global manufacturer of power management devices, today introduced the LBC Series, a ruggedized battery charger consisting of two or three parallel independent AC-DC converter modules employing PFC stage and isolated DC-DC stage to convert the 3-phase input voltage 400 / 480 VAC (line to line) to a bus voltage suitable for 110 V battery charging for decentralized railway applications. Rolling stock and train manufacturers will realize greater flexibility to distribute weight more efficiently away from the traction inverters, pantograph and auxiliary converter, with which historically it was integrated.

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