The Powernet ADC5000 power supply series recently passed a significant milestone when the 350,000th power supply, a celebratory version of the product, was delivered to Australian customer MPower. MPower has been using the ADC5000 series for several years, in control systems of railway crossings.
Development work on the Powernet ADC5000 series began towards the end of 1990s. The goal was the introduction of a highly reliable, versatile and future-oriented power supply.

The first models in the series, with an output of 250W, were released in 1998, followed by the 125W and 60W models. The ADC5000 was one of the first power supplies on the market to introduce a temperature-compensated battery charging function as a standard, along with built-in output series diodes. Thanks to these features, use of the ADC5000 is particularly popular in applications with requirements for a redundant system structure, as well as in battery charging systems supplementing the actual power input.

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