The BOOSTERT is suitable for industrial and private workshops, farms, factories, cool stores, pumping stations or any other motor application where the site lacks three-phase supply and within large buildings where all three phases are not close to the equipment location.

Voltage balanced (+/-5%) to protect digital and electronic loads Copes with start-stop applications and frequent forward-reverse operation. Can be used with variable speed drives and welders Multiple motors can be started or reversed at any time No optional equipment is needed, no hidden costs, no upsizing

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EFFICIENCY & POWER QUALITY
With perfectly sinusoidal phases, good power factor over 0.9, zero current switching and output voltage symmetry of +/-5%, your application will run coolly and more efficiently thus extending the useful life and reducing power bills.

Efficiency and power quality are extremely important and topical issues. Equipment run with poor power factor draw more power from the source than required. The direct effects of poor power factor are a higher than necessary power bill and a reduction of power line capacity which is felt by your facility and users further along the line. Efficiency is better than 92% and at average loads about 95%. Waveform is sinusoidal with 120 degree phase shift as with utility supplied power. The BOOSTER™ eliminates the inefficiencies generated by running an oversized converter. Due to zero current switching, no continuous stress is placed on utility lines, radio frequency interference and electromagnetic interference produced are low and well within legal limits.
The Booster is tested for EMC compliance and complies with all applicable industrial emission and radiation standards.

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COST
Many facilities are, for economic reasons, only connected to one of the three phases of utility power available at the nearest distribution transformer. A single phase supply line was the cheaper option when the premises were built. Similarly, large buildings that are currently supplied with three phase power may have areas that are uneconomic or inconvenient to run additional three phase wiring.

If three-phase equipment is to be used, a simple comparison can be made:
Compare the cost for providing three-phase supply (e.g. distribution transformer, power lines, monthly line charges) with the price of other phase converting techniques including the hidden costs. Then compare to the BOOSTERT.

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ROBUST & MAINTENANCE FREE
The BOOSTERT is maintenance free, almost indestructible and offers a very long life expectancy even under rough conditions. High power and oversized semiconductors and self healing polypropylene capacitors are a guarantee for a long life. The internal motor-generator is brushless and bearings are greased for life. There are no electromechanical contacts in a BOOSTERT to open or close at full voltage, subsequently there is nothing to wear out.

The BOOSTERT is robust and immune to incoming line disturbances, over and under-voltage conditions, brown-outs, black-outs, unstable power lines and frequent short circuits.

1. The BOOSTERT will provide up to 600% increase in output current when required to start large mechanical loads.

In addition, the BOOSTERT automatically reconnects the start capacitors for as long as it takes to start another external motor or to compensate for occasional mechanical loads.

Our controller continually monitors both the start and run capacitor charge cycles in millisecond steps and when boost is required, connects them together at exactly the right time ensuring there is no stress on the electronic switching components.

2. There are no Mechanical Contactors
No converter based on contactors can produce boost currents as mentioned above.
If you attempted to do that with a magnetic starter, you would create a fire starter.
Why? The run capacitor follows sine wave from +600V to -600V 50 times a second, while the start capacitor has a random voltage caused by previous starts. Connecting the two for getting high start-up currents will most probably end up in a disaster for the contactor.

In the BOOSTERT, switching is performed at zero volt transitions without causing stress to the power lines or any EMC problems. Solid state relays are used to achieve this with unlimited life. Capacitors are switched in and out as needed to maintain a unity power factor and balanced voltages at all times.

BOOSTERsT have three capacitor banks to balance the power factor (lower power bills) and output voltages. When a large motor starts, all of the capacitors are combined to bring the motor to full speed in the shortest possible time. Motors that start under load or maintain speed under excessive loads such as CNC machines will not fail when using the BOOSTERTD.

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