Blixt Tech AB’s Blixt Zero solid state circuit breaker receives IEC certification – a first time ever a residential solid state circuit breaker approved for commercial use. This makes the company world’s first to deliver a certified miniature solid state circuit breaker.
Earlier in September, Blixt announced a strategic partnership with Infineon and on September 24, the parties signed an MoU to co-develop low-cost solid-state circuit breakers.
Classic circuit breakers are mechanical devices, which makes them slow and less effective over time, and even cause an arc-fault incident. But Blixit’s technology breakthrough with solid state circuit breakers enables completely new ways of handling electricity and allows real time control of the power flow.
“Receiving the certification for the Blixt Zero has been an extraordinary team effort and an important milestone for our company. To achieve the IEC certification, the Blixt Zero had to meet vigorous electrical safety standards and electromagnetic compatibility criteria. It is also a proof point that we have managed to take our disruptive innovation from idea to commercial product” says Jens Peter Schroer CTO of Blixt.
The Blixt Zero is a pure solid state (electronic) device, without any moving parts and no physical separation of the conductive path for power flow. This leads to faster response times and interruption of extreme currents in nanoseconds without generating any arc faults. Furthermore, it has built in real-time voltage and current monitoring, as well as software programmability and two-way communication. This makes the system more efficient, wasting less energy, and at the same time increasing our safety levels.
The Blixt Zero is designed as a 16A, 110 – 230VAC breaker, but the technology is agnostic to the type of semiconductors used and future proof in this way. The system can take full advantage of new developments in the Power MOSFET segment and going forward be scaled up to medium voltage or high current systems.
