Sparks Electrical News September 2018

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ABERDARE CABLES EXPANDS NATIONAL FOOTPRINT

PREPAYMENT METER MANUFACTURING PLANT

A berdare Cables has extended its reach to customers in the Mpumalanga region with the opening of a new branch in Nelspruit, where a suitably qualified team lead by branch offi- cial, Tony Carvalho, will service the region. The official opening ceremony for the branch in June, attended by customers, was a great success. AberdareCEO,Dr AndrewSong addressed customers on the motivation behind establishing an operation in Nelspruit, “Our presence in this market has grown steadily. We are positive about future prospects from this branch and look forward to expanding our footprint in this market and into Mozambique.” Also present was Mishack Matla, Director of Sales,

located at the Riverside Industrial Park in Nelspruit.

Marketing and Distribution at Aberdare. “We plan to continue investing in growth initiatives. Expanding our customer touch points is one such initiative. We plan to energetically pursue new business and we have set ambitious targets, and will stretch ourselves to achieve them,” he said. Aberdare Cables, a leading African cable manufacturer is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hentong International. Aberdare is a level 1 BBBEE contributor that is proudly associated with GCA, a 25% empowerment partner. The company has seven customer service centres and three manufacturing sites in South Africa as well as an operation in Mozambique. The new branch is

Enquiries: +27 (0)11 396 8000

DC-DC CONVERTERS UP TO 600 W OUTPUT T he XP Power QSB Series of DC-DC converters, available from RS Components, offers the broadest range of power supplies from XP Power on the market. Designed for applications including signal processing, telecoms, networking and industrial systems, the new QSB Series delivers a stabilised output at a range of standard voltages between 3.3 V and 48 V, at power levels of 75 W to 600 W. The QSB Series accepts a wide range of input voltages, typically provided from a battery. Input ranges for most models are 2:1 or 4:1, including 18-36 or 9-36 V dc (24 V nominal) and 36-75 or 18-75 V dc (48 V nominal). However, the 150 W QSB15048W models offer a wider 8:1 input range, accepting anything from 9 V to 75 V. Power P rotection, automation and metering sys- tems supplier, ACTOM Protection & Con- trol (P&C) has set up a prepayment meter factory at its Knights, Germiston, premises in line with the latest national regulations governing local content requirements for key industrial products. Residential prepayment meters and smart meters are included in the many categories of equipment recently designated by the Department of Trade & Industry (DTI) as requiring a minimum 70% and 50% local content respectively to be eligible for sale and supply to SOEs and other organs of state, including many municipalities. The establishment of the local production facility, operating since March this year, enables the business unit to meet the DTI’s local content conditions applying to prepayment meters. “It positions us optimally to cater to the rapidly growing demand for state-of-the-art smart prepayment metering systems in the local market, especially among local authorities, which have increasingly adopted them as the most efficient and convenient method for controlling, monitoring and managing electricity consumption in the residential areas under their jurisdiction,” said Faisal Hoosen, P&C’s General Manager. P&C produces and assembles the equipment under licence to its technology partner Holley Technology, an international manufacturer and supplier of metering systems. The items produced in the new factory comprise prepayment meters, smart prepayment meters and customer interface units (CIUs). Enquiries: +27 (0)11 820 5319

conversion efficiency is high: typically between 86% and 93%

depending on model. High power densities of up to 123.0 W/in 3 are achieved. Modules can be connected in parallel for higher power requirements.

Enquiries: +27 (0)11 691 9300

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SEPTEMBER 2018