Customized Fan Controllers

PCI’s family of customized embedded controllers are designed to perform all of the controlling, monitoring, and power conditioning functions associated with a fan tray. They allow standard fans to be integrated into a fan tray component that meets all of the customer’s requirements. A PCI controller is typically used to provide input power filtering, power distribution to fans, visual and electrical status/alarm interface, air flow/temperature sensing, and system thermal monitoring and control. An advanced, low cost RISC micro-controller serves as the brains behind most of PCI’s controllers.

The embedded micro-controller insures accurate and repeatable performance over temperature, and removes variations due to component tolerance. This greatly improves over all reliability by ensuring that each system performs identically for a variety of thermal conditions. Furthermore, a PCI fan tray controller is designed to operate without the need for re-calibration.

PCI offers a wide range of standard designs that can be modified for form, fit, and function, allowing for short lead times and low development costs. Production costs are also typically lowered because the controllers have all the features you want and none of the ones you don’t

Features:

• Micro-controller based
• Designed to meet Agency approvals
• Optimized for cost & size
• Customer specified:
  • Sense inputs
  • Alarm outputs
  • Display and interface configurations
  • Size, mounting options, connectors, etc.
  • Input voltage range
  • Filtering and fusing
• Support for several networking platforms
• Low N.R.E.
• Short lead times
• Extended temperature ranges available