Power module

One of several identical conversion units in a DC charger; together they set its power, and each can be exchanged as a unit.

Explained in

Charging hardware · Stop 04What is inside a DC charger?Grid protection, power modules, contactors, meter, controller, cooling and the user side: the parts of a DC charger, and why one fault rarely stops all of it.

Charger 2 is built from identical power modules. That has two consequences:

From “Modules, not one block”, stop 04

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