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POWER CAPACITORS

Apart from your excellent experience, the construction of reliable and competitive equipment for power factor correction re-
quires top-class components at reasonable cost. No compromise in quality and safety should be permitted when it comes to the
key part of your PFC equipment. Germany’s largest manufacturer of power capacitors manufactures all components with highest
care and expertise and is your best choice for power capacitors.

The dry-type phase shifters of our renowned MKPg™-series are environmentally friendly, compact, and very convenient to
handle. They contain no liquids, are filled with a neutral, inert gas entirely harmless to environment and may be mounted in any
desired position. Should leakage occur, the leaking gas would escape into the atmosphere causing no undesirable effects to the
adjacent equipment, e.g. damage, pollution, or staining. Hence when disposing of the capacitors, no liquids or toxic gasses need
to be considered. The plant oil in our MKP capacitors is biodegradable and does not cause any trouble either, be it in the unlike-
ly event of leakage or during disposal.

All our three-phase capacitors contain three separate capacitor elements connected in delta, preferably of short height and
large diameter which substantially reduces inherent power losses and improves their current strength as compared with slim,
tall capacitors. By using the market’s best low-loss, self-healing polypropylene films and sophisticated manufacturing tech-
niques such as high-vacuum drying and special coating patterns, they provide long service life with constant capacitance and
high switching strength. As a matter of course, all our power capacitors are provided with BAM™ (overpressure break-action
mechanism) as standard, for safe mode of failure.

Our original CAPAGRIP™ terminals guarantee optimum sealing of the capacitors, and offer convenient connection of cables
up to 50mm . A special spring system guarantees reliable and durable operation of the clamp. They are rated IP20, i.e.
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protected against accidental finger contact with live parts. Whilst the options K and L4 (“CAPAGRIP II”) include bleeding
resistors for a discharge below 50 V within up to 60 sec as standard, options L and M also permit the direct connection of
discharge reactors and discharge resistor modules, as well as easy parallel connection of additional capacitors within the
current limits of the terminal.

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