Maintaining the United States’ rail power infrastructure demands cutting-edge engineering, something US Power Networks Services have consistently demonstrated through long-term projects with partners like SCHAEFER. There are considerable challenges in ensuring a stable power supply system to the railway as there are not only strict technical and performance requirements but also the need to conform to several international standards. Please consider some key facts of this rolling stock mounted battery charging system.

For any system that depends on sophisticated electronics, everything begins with the power supply. Our shared objectives are to provide a safe and accessible power supply solution for on-board power systems. This battery charger system has been designed to operate efficiently and effectively giving maximum reliability to the on-board power systems eliminating unplanned stops and failures and a longer lifetime.

Emergency power systems are a type of system, which may include lighting, generators, fuel cells and other apparatus, to provide backup power resources in a crisis or when regular systems fail. This customized SCHAEFER power supply based on a C5000 standard series find use on board of trams.

The locomotive driver’s infrastructure of Australian freight trains is supplied by this 8kVA on-board inverter system. Australian rolling stocks are subjected to some of the harshest conditions worldwide. Therefore SCHAEFER provides with this power supply system a more convenient, more consistent and more reliable solution for charging the power system within these freight trains. In this case the SCHAEFER client profits from these engineering skills through an optimized solution tailored to the needs and parameters of the project.