Basler
Electric Expands its Capabilities to
Secure Our Future
Basler Electric is pleased to
announce it has finalized the purchase
of Stellar Plastics Inc., a full service
custom injection molding company located
in San Marcos, TX. Stellar, now a wholly
owned subsidiary of Basler Electric
Company, will operate under the name
Basler Plastics and will continue
to produce high quality components for
its diversified customer base.
The main focus of Basler Plastics is its extensive internal tooling
capabilities, which provide a one-stop
solution for plastic parts and assembly
needs. The experienced technical project
development team can help develop
product concepts, analyze product
designs and conduct mold tooling design
analysis. Since tooling is built
“in-house”, the delivery of products to
the customer is expedited and the
quality of the final product is more
closely controlled. An extensive quality
system, which has contributed to ISO
9001:2008 certification, is in place to
ensure that customers’ expectations are
consistently met.
The addition of Stellar to the Basler
family of high quality products
accomplishes Basler Electric’s goals to
grow and provide security to its
employees. The acquisition brings a
supplemental supply of plastic parts
used in existing Basler products,
including transformers, voltage
regulators and protective relays. This
provides a secure source of parts that
are crucial to our processes and insures
our final customers receive the highest
quality and the most stable supply of
parts possible.
In today’s unstable
economic climate, looking to the future
and safeguarding a source of supply for
critical items is essential to the
success of our customers and Basler
Electric Company.
Basler Electric is pleased to
introduce its latest Digital Excitation
Control System, the
DECS-2100.
The DECS-2100 incorporates a new
controller that is ideal for providing
exceptional system response. The
combination of its microprocessor-based
platform, fiber-optic rectifier bridge
firing control, and online
maintenance-capable rectifier bridges
(N+1 designs) offers the highest system
performance possible while providing
excitation currents up to 10,000 Adc on
systems ranging from 1 to 1300 MW.
This new product is based upon
Basler’s design experiences and
knowledge base in excitation control
dating back to the early1970s, from
Shunt Static Exciter technologies to
more recent Digital Excitation Control
Systems, including the DECS-400 and
ECS2100, both proven global leaders in
excitation control. These products have
provided control to tens of thousands of
GW in installed generation worldwide.
The most effective way to react to
system disturbances is to use a system
that can be tailored to suit specific
application needs. The DECS-2100 is the
system that will allow you to accomplish
this with more enhanced features in a
more user-friendly environment.
The new Graphic User Interface
Software, BESTCOMS™Pro is an
easy-to-use software tool for
configuring, monitoring, and maintaining
the DECS-2100 Digital Excitation Control
System. It also is used to change
settings for the various limiting and
protection functions, download new
system firmware, and retrieve diagnostic
information. A USB port or an optional
Ethernet port enables local
communication between the Controller and
a PC operating with the BESTCOMSPro
software or with the IDP-1200
Interactive Display Panel featuring a.
12.1 inch color touch screen that can be
mounted locally on the excitation
cubicle, remotely in the control room,
or at both locations.
The DECS-2100 is the next generation
multi-microprocessor digital excitation
control system that provides advanced
technology to precisely control,
protect, and monitor synchronous
generators and motors for new and
existing applications that are driven by
all types of prime movers, such as
steam, gas, hydro, and diesel.
Basler
Electric Announces the Addition of Dan Leonard
Basler Electric Company is pleased to
announce the addition of Mr. Dan
Leonard to the position of Manager of
Sales – Power Systems where he will be
responsible for managing sales activity
to support the Power Systems Group.
“Dan will contribute to the company’s
strategic direction and will lead all
sales efforts to drive growth in the
U.S. and Canada for the company’s power
system market segments and will report
directly to me,” according to Ken
Rhodes, Vice President of Sales.
Dan will be based in the Highland
corporate office. Dan has held various
sales management positions over the past
20 years with his most recent roles at
Ametek Power Systems and Joslyn
Hi-Voltage Corporation, where he was
responsible for sales to the power
industry and switchgear manufacturers.
He holds Master Degrees in Electrical
Engineering and Applied Mathematics as
well as a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology
from the Cleveland State University.
Basler Electric Announces the
Promotion of Larry Perez to Director of
Marketing
Basler Electric Company is pleased to
announce the promotion of Mr. Larry
Perez to the position of Director of
Marketing.
Mr. Perez has considerable expertise
in the electric power industry. For the
past thirty-three years, he has served
in various positions at Basler Electric.
Starting in manufacturing as a
Production Technician, he has progressed
through Customer Service / Technical
Support as an Application Engineer, then
in Marketing as a Product Specialist,
Product Manager and most recently served
as the Product Line Manager and Key
Accounts Manager for Regulation and
System Control products.
As Marketing Director, he will be
responsible for developing the U.S. and
international markets. His duties will
include marketing strategies for the
continued growth of Basler’s Power
System and Magnetic Product groups.
“Larry’s leadership will be integral
to enhancing and improving our Marketing
efforts with our customers worldwide.
There is no doubt that his experience
and energetic professionalism makes him
the ideal candidate to implement the
global marketing direction for Basler
Electric,” said Gary Dolbeare,
President. “Mr. Perez will continue to
report to me and, along with the entire
marketing team, will manage and promote
Basler’s diverse product lines and
innovative solutions to the power
industry worldwide.”
Mr. Perez serves on the EGSA –
Electrical Generating Systems
Association – Board of Directors and is
well known and respected throughout the
Power Generation Industry.
Basler designed,
developed and manufactured these
products for several years under an
agreement with a well known US generator
manufacturer. They were sold as the
SE350 and DVR®2000E voltage regulators.
With tens of thousands of these devices
sold and establishing a stellar track
record of reliability, Basler felt it
was important to now offer them to the
open market and let all customers
benefit from these high quality
affordable products.
