At Termate we help customers to understand what is important for electrical insulation components, this time looking at the sizes of standoff insulators that are available. If you have any topics you’d like us to consider for future articles, please contact our customer support team.
Standoff insulators are insulating materials that help to maintain a safe distance between a conductive surface and a live conductor. By maintaining this distance between two surfaces, standoff insulators prevent electricity from jumping from one surface to the other.
Available in a range of heights, insert sizes and widths, the standoff insulators manufactured by Termate are built in a uniform black octagonal design for a consistent application across all product assemblies.
Constructed from flame-resistant glass-reinforced polyamide injection moulded plastic, standoff insulators also provide mechanical support in a broad selection of applications.
Standoff Insulator Width
While the width of a standoff insulator has little impact on performance, it can affect its correct application depending on the size of the conductor required. Likewise, a consistent shape to a standoff insulator ensures that consistency is maintained throughout the application.
Termate’s standoff insulators are engineered with an octagonal shape, which allows for easy installation, as well as keeping a consistent aesthetic throughout the application, regardless of the height and width of the standoff insulator.
A wider standoff insulator brings greater mechanical strength. This enhanced structural strength helps to maintain the overall integrity of the busbar system in the event of a short circuit or other electrical faults.
Standoff insulators are used in everything from switchgear and Power Distributor units (PDUs) through connection boxes to inverters and transformers. A broad range of industries employ standoff insulators in the construction of their products, including datacentre critical power, renewable energy, and fully electric vehicles.
Standoff insulator height
To complement the standard range of standoff insulator widths available, Termate offers an extensive selection of heights, in addition to having the manufacturing facilities to offer development opportunities to customers.
When building applications, engineers want to avoid spending any time, money, and effort bending and reshaping copper bar. In order to remove the need for this process, Termate’s standoff insulators are engineered to cater for a range of height requirements to suit most applications.
Termate delivers tall and thin standoff insulators
As technology continues to develop, the application of electricity continues to expand. Electric vehicles, battery energy storage systems (BESS), homes and other applications have led to increasing demand for tall and thin standoff insulators. This is further driven by the need to keep units as small and compact as possible, maintaining the narrow width while maximising the potential height.
Termate’s tall and thin standoff insulators bring the best of both worlds, delivering thin insulators with the necessary height to function without compromising the overall integrity of the application.
To learn more about Termate’s standoff insulators, contact our technical sales team.
