Custom Development Options

Innovative solutions for your challenging requirements

We Have What It Takes

When our standard equipment solutions don’t meet your needs, our Engineering Team can adapt or create a system tailored to your requirements. With hundreds of custom design solutions at our disposal, we can meet any challenge.

We specialize in factory, depot, and military equipment testing environments. We understand the many constraints you face, including limited space, safety and regulatory factors, unique control requirements, power monitoring, and even color coordination

Explore some of the ways AC General can adapt an equipment rack power system for you…look over the gallery below for examples

Input and Output Power Connectors

Our Power Distribution Units (PDUs) come standard with high-durability NEMA connectors, with optional MIL connectors available. We offer a variety of power input/output connectors to suit your specific application needs, along with custom power cord lengths.

Input Power Specifications:

Voltage Ratings: 120, 120/208, 208, and 480 VAC
Current Ratings: 5-100A
Line Frequency: 60 Hz and 400 Hz

Additionally, we can combine two input sources into a single PDU to simplify control, save space, and potentially reduce costs.

Enhance Your Power Distribution Panels with Remote Control

Our Power Distribution Panels can be seamlessly integrated with remote control capabilities. AC General offers a wide range of power control schemes tailored to your needs through advanced control logic.

Additional remote-control features include:

Digital Interface: Connect to Computer/PC/VXI systems with 5VDC or 24VDC digital IO signal levels.
Interlocks and Power Enable Signals: Utilize signals from doors, fans, or other sensor switches.
Emergency Stop (E-Stop): Implement E-Stop functionality from single or multiple locations.
Advanced Control Logic: For more complex requirements, we employ Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs).

Packaging and Protection Options

We offer a variety of packaging and protection options to meet your needs:

Custom Panel Sizes and Shapes: Tailor panel dimensions to fit your specific requirements.
Unique Panel Colors: Match your system’s color scheme with custom panel colors.
Breaker Guards: Ensure safety with protective breaker guards.
Ruggedization: Enhance durability for demanding environments.
Special EMI and AC Filtering: Address electromagnetic interference and AC filtering needs.

System Monitoring- Keep track of system power performance with advanced monitoring options.

Over/Under Voltage and Phase Rotation Monitoring: Automatically cut off output power if unsafe conditions are detected.
Elapsed Time Meter: Track operational time with precision.
Current Monitoring: Display current on a front panel meter or access data via your host PC.
Power Quality Monitoring: Monitor and log system power quality with sophisticated tools.
Metering: Add a front panel meter to display voltage, current, and power parameters.
Networking: Configure your PDU with a Modbus option which can provide detailed parameters to your host software. Easily works with NI LabVIEW/LabWindows CVI or other host environments with Modbus library.

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Connections

Dual Source 60/400Hz Power Distribution Panel with MIL and NEMA power connectors

Output and Input connectors tailored to your unique equipment rack loads

Reduce system integration time- Let AC General provide mating cabling

IEC 60309 Pin and Sleeve Connectors

Control Options

Get On/Off power control switches integrated on the PDU front panel

Get all the switching that you need located on one control panel

Line-rated main selector switch

Compact specialized control (1U) panels

Various ON/OFF control and Emergency Off (EMO) schemes available

Get multi-PDU system control from a single control panel

Packaging & Protection

Unique packaging designed to manage tight rear panel cabling

Custom panel design for highlighting 8U distribution panel (bottom) + accompanying 3U DC distribution panel (top)

Various forms of guards for 1/2/3/4-pole circuit breakers

System Monitoring

Over/Under Voltage and Phase Rotation

Prevents damage to equipment by disengaging the PDU outputs
Enforces phase sequence wiring to A-B-C

Current Monitoring

Monitor AC Line Current with added current sensing
Feed the sensor to built-in meters or route the sensor wiring to your measurement equipment

Power Quality Monitoring (PQM)

Embed a PQM into your PDU and get
- Detailed event recording for voltage, frequency, and current
- Voltage dips, swells, and interruptions
- Waveform graph and RMS graphs
- Network connectivity to retrieve all the AC PQM data into your host system
- No software required!
  - Built-in web server
  - Built-in FTP server
  - Built-in Modbus-TCP protocol
Perfect option for critical test environments where you need to correlate AC power events to test results
- No more guess-work on power sags and surges
- Easy to configure

Panel Meters

AC General has incorporated numerous meters into our distribution panels to display
- AC (and DC) voltage
- AC (and DC) current
- Line frequency
- Power
Meter data can be optionally sent back to a host PC via Modbus