POWER CONTROL SELECTION CHART

Chart below shows how to best match SCR power control with typical applications.
Heater/Load
Type
Heater/Load
Characteristics
Control Type Typical
Applications
Model
Number
Constant Resistance Elements. Immersion heaters.
Slow Response On/Off
Zero Voltage   
Switched
Large tank heating and mechanical relay replacement. A1Z
A3Z
A6Z
R1
CZ
Medium wave infrared, ceramic, cartridge, duct, strip, and band heaters. Platens. Faster response, Constant resistance heaters only. Zero Voltage Switched Thermoforming, textiles, industrial furnaces and ovens, extruders, kilns, chemical process heating, fast water heat. A1Z
A3Z
CZ
D1P
Open coil/wire heaters. Medium wave IR quartz. IR panels. Fastest, most precise response. Phase Angle Fired Paper and pulp drying, packaging machines, pharmaceutical processes, infrared ovens & dryers. A1P
C1P
A3P
D1P
2CP-8CP
Silicon Carbide
heaters. 
Load changes in resistance with age. High temperature elements. Phase Angle Fired with Current Limit Option High temperature ovens and furnaces, glass, ceramics and high temperature alloys. A1P-CL
A3P-CL
Tungsten (T-3) lamps and heaters. Short wave IR elements. Molybdenum heaters. High inrush currents
High hot: cold resistance ration
Tungsten 14:1
Molybdenum 20:1
Graphite: 20:1
Phase Angle Fired with Soft Start option High speed paper and ink dryers, high temperature IR heating, high temperature materials processing. A1P-Sxx
A3P-Sxx
C1P-S
2CP-S-8CP-S
Transformer coupled loads. Primary driving. Inductive heater loads. Inductive loads. Phase Angle Fired with Soft Start option. Current limit option. Used with transformer-coupled to drive low voltage elements. B1P
B2P
B3P

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