Application Note: Contact Welding
Sensata | Gigavac has performed extensive testing to determine the make current capability of their contactors.
Learn MoreApplication Note: Driving Contactors with external PWM
Sensata | Gigavac offers the GX14, GX23, and GV200 with built-in PWM economizer (coil option M or N).
Learn MoreApplication Note: Driving the GV35 Contactor with external PWM
The Sensata | Gigavac GV35 contactor with P and R coils require an external economizer.
Learn MoreApplication Note: Driving the GXV600 Contactor with external PWM
The Gigavac GXV600 Contactor with the P coil requires an external economizer.
Learn MoreApplication Note: Driving HX460 contactors with external PWM
Sensata | Gigavac offers the HX460 with a continuous duty coil. Customers that want to reduce overall power consumption can PWM the coil.
Learn MoreApplication Note: GVL 12V Set/Reset Voltage and Coil Current vs. Temperature
Since Gigavac contactors are operated by a coil that changes resistance with temperature, Pickup Voltage and Drop Out Voltage will decrease at temperatures below 25C and increase at temperatures ab
Learn MoreApplication Note: Pressure Sensing in Hydrogen Boilers
In recent years, there has growing momentum behind the idea of hydrogen-fired boiler systems, which represent a clean energy alternative to natural gas-driven systems.
Learn MoreApplication Note: Inspecting, Packaging, Sorting and Palletizing with IO-Link
Packaging has some very complex automation needs: all the way from die-cutting, carton erecting, filling, inspecting, and closing, to multi-packing and palletizing.
Learn MoreApplication Note: Encoders in Forklift AGV
Automated and integrated systems are proving to be more efficient and cost-effective solutions in industries like Materials Handling.
Learn MoreApplication Note: MXC & GXC: CAN-BUS Enabled Smart-Tactors
Contactors are a critical safety component in many modern systems and applications including electric vehicles, energy storage systems, smart grids, renewables, and charging systems.
Learn MoreApplication Note: Hydraulics and Pneumatics
Pneumatic technology is used in vehicle tires, air brakes of buses, trucks or trains, compressed-air engines, vacuum pumps, and more.
Learn MoreApplication Note: Smart Fluid Media Management
As automation is adopted in more facilities, physical work is being replaced by machines and their automatic controls and the need for valve actuators has grown.
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