Power conversion specialists accredited ISO9001.

Ideal Power Ltd have passed their final assessment and received accreditation to ISO 9001:2008. Being recognised as having a quality management system which consistently provides products that meet customer and applicable statutory and regulatory requirements is an essential part of Ideal Power’s ethos.

Jon Vallis, Sales and Marketing Manager of Ideal Power, comments, “Our commercial and quality management team put a lot of hard work into ensuring our processes meet the stringent requirements of ISO 9001:2008 and we will ensure our customer’s get maximum benefit from this award by maintaining a process of continual improvement.”

The accreditation includes both the distribution and logistics services provided from Ideal Power’s long established base in Barnstaple, Devon (GB) and their recently purchased 2200 square foot Sales, Marketing and Technical Support Centre located in Peterborough (GB).

Ideal Power provides external power supplies and adapters, open frame, encapsulated and DIN Rail power conversion products and battery chargers to markets including industrial, computing, medical, communications, LED Lighting, security, consumer and leisure. Products are sourced from market leading suppliers including EOS and Glary,

Ideal Power’s IP Support Engineering Team are available to work with customer’s design engineers to create modified-standard and full custom designs for quantities from 100 pieces upwards. The Ideal Power IP Support team has over 40 years of experience in the power supply industry and provides local assistance throughout the whole design process from concept, design, quotations, samples and testing to approvals and standards compliance, shipping, stock-holding and after-sales service.

Larger facility for high level of service!

Power conversion specialists Ideal Power Ltd have moved to a larger facility to ensure continued high levels of customer support as the company’s sales grow and to accommodate their expanding telesales team.

Jon Vallis, Sales and Marketing Manager of Ideal Power, comments, “Our very wide, high quality product range and bespoke engineering support provides our customers with unparalleled levels of service which underpins our continued sales growth. Our new premises will not only ensure we continue to provide very high levels of service but also enables us to grow our sales operation for both distribution and custom power solutions.”

Located in Peterborough (GB), Ideal Power’s Sales and Marketing Centre now occupies its own 2200 square foot facility while continuing to provide distribution and logistics services from their long established base down in Devon.

With a growing range of market leading power supplies from principles including EOS and Glary, Ideal Power offers open frame, encapsulated, DIN Rail and LED lighting power supplies, external power supplies and adaptors and DC:DC converters. Ideal Power also distributes a market leading range of battery chargers for industrial and leisure markets.

Typical applications for Ideal Power products include consumer, industrial, computing, medical, communications and security.

Ideal Power’s  IP Support Engineering Team are available to work with customer’s design engineers to create modified-standard and full custom designs for quantities from 100 pieces upwards. The Ideal Power IP Support team has over 40 years of experience in the power supply industry and provides local assistance throughout the whole design process from concept, design, quotations, samples and testing to approvals and standards compliance, shipping, stock-holding and after-sales service.

The "Design Engineer Friendly" psu!

Ideal Power offer a wide range of very competitively priced linear and switched-mode AC/AC and AC/DC external power supplies. The extensive range of physical chassis options available includes plug-top, desk-top and interchangeable and typical applications include consumer, industrial, computing, medical, communications and security.

Ideal Power make every effort to ensure that their range of External Power Supply Units meet all the latest worldwide approvals. This includes ErPII where Ideal Power’s complete range of External PSU’s comply with this exacting standard.

Most standard products are available from our extensive stockholding and Ideal Power’s UK based IP Support Engineering Team are happy to assist design engineers with modified-standard and full custom designs encompassing alternative input and output voltages and current, frequency range, power consumption, output voltage regulation, ripple and noise characteristics, efficiency and alternative plug-types for specific regions. At Ideal Power the customer’s needs are paramount to such an extent that requirements for bespoke products from 100 pieces upwards can be catered for.

The External Interchangeable Power Supply range from Ideal Power further improves the versatility of external PSUs by allowing multifunctional use as either a plug-top or a desk-top power supply in one unit and features an interchangeable plug-top allowing end users to select the correct AC plug type for the country it is to be used in. The ability to convert between a plug-top and desk-top power supply allows the same product to operate in difficult locations, where under-floor or gangway sockets prevent traditional plug-tops from being used.

To complete their range of external power supply products Ideal Power also offers an 8-way set of DC connectors enabling the polarity of the DC output to be changed by adding an adapter which allows the PSU to be used in both centre positive or centre negative configuration.

Jon Vallis, Sales & Marketing Manager of Ideal Power, comments, “Our very wide range of competitively priced external power supplies together with our experienced UK based team of applications engineers, who can support our customers specialised requirements, really make Ideal Power a design engineer friendly company to do business with.”

The Ideal Power IP Support team has over 40 years of experience in the power supply industry and provides local assistance throughout the whole design process from concept, design, quotations, samples and testing to approvals and standards compliance, shipping, stock-holding and after-sales service.

DC:DC Converters

Ideal Power are now offering a wide range of DC/DC converters from Glary Power Technology, one of the leading innovators of small footprint board mounted power conversion. Glary are renowned worldwide for producing extremely reliable power converters that exceed 90% efficiency, are thermally efficient and have an impressive power density to size ratio. These innovative DC/DC converters are available in industry-standard encapsulated and “brick” form factors ranging from 40W to 2KW and are ready to be fully customised to meet individual project requirements.

Established in 1998, Glary have proved to be a reliable source for electronic design engineers seeking uncompromising PCB mounted power solutions. Glary offer a unique combination of industry-leading design, immense reliability and superior technical knowledge. The Glary business model is built on patents pushing the boundaries of technology by exceeding expectations for the design and manufacture of DC/DC converters.

Patented Buck Reset Forward Technology exclusive to Glary, improves synchronous rectification (SR) operation by reducing the amount of components required. Achieved through a technique which improves the efficiency of rectification by replacing diodes with actively controlled switches, usually power MOSFETs or power BJTs, this innovative and unique topology design reduces heat generation, improves thermal efficiency through equal heat distribution and allows an incredible amount of power to be available.

Reducing the footprint required by the power supply on a PCB provides a major benefit for system hardware design as other system and application critical components can reclaim the saved space.

Glary’s Continuous improvement of designs to produce market-leading products provides an impressive feature-rich product with fewer components on system board, faster transient response, lower ripple and lower RFI noise, no Tantalum capacitors are used increasing reliability, high power density in a small form factor, along with extremely low heat generation and power loss. Single-sided component layout allows for easy mounting on the base-plate, Sink-Plate options eliminate the need for extra heat-sinks, vertical or horizontal heat-sink fins may be specified to increase compatibility with system air-flow and smooth and precise edges of the base plate allow for compact assembly.

When a new design is commissioned or a modification to an existing product is required, the UK based IP Support Engineering Team at Ideal Power work together with Glary Technology. Ideal Power become a technical partner to the customer’s in-house design engineers to match the exact application power requirements. The IP Support team has over 40 years of experience in the power supply industry and provides local assistance throughout the whole design process from concept, design, quotations, samples and testing to approvals and standards compliance, shipping, stock-holding and after-sales service.

Does your external power supply meet the requirements of Eco Design directive, 2009/125/EC?

Check it online!

Ideal Power offer visitors to their website an easy-to-use ErP II average efficiency calculator tool for external power supplies ensuring the correct selection of ErP II Stage 2 compliant products.

An example of the calculator in use.

Available at the calculator provides confirmation of the target efficiency rating at a glance to engineers, designers and purchasing professionals allowing them to ensure that their application or product conforms to the ErP II requirements. By simply inputting an output voltage and wattage the calculator will use the official formula set by the 278/2009 ErP II compliance in the 2005/32/EC Directive, to provide the average efficiency rate required.

"The second stage of legislation intended to reduce power consumption for electronic equipment has now come into force and there have been numerous changes to the EU’s directives and regulations concerning the efficiency of electronic devices in recent years, particularly concerning standby power.” Comments Craig Eaton, Marketing and Design Manager of Ideal Power. “The Eco Design directive, 2009/125/EC, is the all-embracing directive intended to improve the energy efficiency of all energy related products (ErP). It’s a revision of the directive formerly known as the energy using products (EuP) directive, 2005/32/EC. The goal of this directive is to reduce the energy consumed by ErP by 20%, by 2020. High efficiency external power supplies can help achieve this.”

As part of the ErP directive, EC 278/2009 is the regulation that specifically concerns an external power supply connected to electrical or electronic equipment in a household or office. This regulation restricts an external power supply’s maximum no-load power consumption and average active efficiency of the power supply.

Part of the reason for introducing the requirements in stages is to allow manufacturers time to redesign their products to meet the new constraints. Ideal Power has done exactly that for its range of external power supplies, including the 25HK-AB, 25HK-AJ and 25HK-U series, now available on short lead-times from the company.

Going forward external power supplies must comply with the more stringent Stage II of the ErP directive, under regulation EC 278/2009, in order to qualify for a CE mark. When buying external power supplies, they should come with a statement of compliance for CE marking.

Ideal Power’s Support Engineering Team are available to advise customers about EC 1275/2008 (which relates to the power consumed by electrical or electronic household or office equipment) or EC 617/2013 (which specifically relates to computers and computer servers and welcome all requests to discuss power conversion and supply requirements.