Powerpedia
You source of all those ABCs around power electronics
The definitions included in this glossary are related to when they are used in the context of ActionPower's products of power suppkies and automated test systems or their applications, which in some cases may differ in meaning in other situations.
A
An AC waveform is a time-varying electrical signal whose voltage or current alternates direction periodically
Protection against grid anomalies
Artificial and custom-defined voltage profiles that go beyond conventional shapes.
Apparent power is the total power in an AC circuit.
A mathematical model that describes the relationship between temperature and failure rate.
B
Failure rate prediction model
A model to represent a battery’s dynamic behaviour
Sink and source in one unit
A bipolar power supply operates by controlling its output stage to generate voltage in two polarities
C
The charging efficiency of a battery
D
Data Acquisition
Distributed Energy Resources
Depth of Discharge
E
Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy
Devices that splits water (H₂O) into its elemental components.
F
Rapid voltage fluctuations in AC power systems.
A power supply's ability to both source and sink power across positive and negative polarities.
H
Deliberate addition of current or voltage at integer multiples of fundamental frequency.
L
Infant mortality, failures during early life stage of a product
Linear load has its current and voltage waveform proportional to each other
Low Voltage Ride Through
M
Motor Control Unit
N
Non-linear load has distortions in current and voltage due to changing load impedance
O
Open Circuit Voltage–State of Charge (OCV–SOC) curve
P
A key interface between distributed energy systems and the utility grid
A key component for grid-following inverters in DERs to keep track and synchronized with the connected utility grid
The ratio of real power to apparent power in AC circuits
Pulse Width Modulation
R
Techniques that improve energy quality in an electrical system
Reactive power is the portion of AC power that oscillates between source and load
Advanced AC programmable power supply for grid emulation
Loading technology that saves testing cost
Root Mean Square
S
Current's tendency to flow primarily on the outer surface of a conductor
How fast the power supply responses to current and voltage setting change
A futuristic and critical conversion system for resilient, efficient AI data center power systems.
State-of-Charge
State-of-Health
DC power sources with specific software options for replicating the PV behaviours of smaller scale solar systems
T
Total Harmonic Distortion of Current
The practice of power which most national grids follow
V
Control algorithm for grid-forming technology
Indices of for much the grid suffers from phase unbalance
X
The mathematical ratio of inductive reactance to resistance in an electrical circuit
