MERCRON Launches European Initiative

Source: MERCRON

MERCRON Inc. has launched its latest project with its overseas Machine Vision / Imaging customers in mind: electronic power factor correction built into all of its 230-volt, high-frequency lamp ballasts, specifically for its European customers.

MERCRON calls these (ballasts) Lamp Controllers because they control the light and not just the lamp — A big difference! Consequently, they control the quality, and the costs, for high-speed Machine Vision, color Imaging, and high-resolution Quality Control systems. MERCRON's light regulating and variable lamp controllers even have features to reduce "false rejects".

Ever-mindful of the need for Europe's "CE" declarations to be on their equipment, MERCRON assists the end-user by designing its light-regulating controllers to be even more user-friendly in this specific way.

Many MERCRON controllers carry UL and TUV recognition, but by year's end, MERCRON expects to add CE marks that reflect compliance with EN60950, EN61000-3-2, and EN61000-3-3 to all 230V models up to 600 watts. These particular CE marks are very useful to the end-product manufacturer. As a manufacturer of OEM sub-systems, MERCRON has conscientiously qualified its controllers to bear these markings.

In addition to making these controllers more user friendly, MERCRON speaks directly, and significantly, to the cost-reduction benefits for its European customers...and in turn, for each of their customers, especially those using multiple controllers in one system.

Still compact...
Not every model of MERCRON "needs" a power factor corrector, but those that do, have a chassis of only 11-inches in length, offering much the same space efficiency of the other models at 9.5-inches in length.

Cost efficient...
MERCRON's standard features, such as the ability to regulate as many as 4 lamps per controller, with a total lamp length of 196 inches, adds to the outstanding cost-efficiency of MERCRON lamp controllers.

For more information, see Controlling Light For Machine Vision Illumination.

SOURCE: MERCRON