Mining:

Australia's booming mining industry has meant an increased demand for DRIVE ISOLATION TRANSFORMERS and has provided SES with the opportunity to extend our transformer range.

Draglines are amongst the largest mobile equipment in the world (not water-borne), and can weigh in the vicinity of 2000 metric tonnes. The massive dragline excavators used in strip-mining in outback Queensland are mainly powered by powerful electric motors, requiring drive isolation transformers. SES supplies GENERAL ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL with a wide range of drive isolation transformers, as well as other transformers & power supplies for use in this mining operation.

Railway Signalling

The demand for reliable transformers to power railway signal lights, solenoid coils for railway contactors, and motor stator windings for boom-gate motors has seen SES design & manufacture many thousands of components for railway signalling applications.

Tune Units are another product made by SES. Tune Units are used to inject & remove signal which are sent along the railway lines themselves. Due to the fact that railway lines are welded into a continuous length, such signals are injected to send messages along the line, then have to be removed so the signal does not continue around Australia. SES has been supplying Westinghouse Rail Systems with transformers, solenoids & Tune Units for over twenty years. This equipment is used in railway signalling systems throughout Australasia & the Asian Pacific area.

Scientific Instruments

SES produces an extensive range of custom transformers, coils & chokes for scientific instruments.

Our association with GBC Scientific Instruments goes back over twenty years, when we made the transformers for their initial proto-type spectrometer. Since then SES has been regularly supplying GBC with transformers & other wound components for their much awarded instruments.

GBC has been manufacturing a variety of instruments for elemental analysis. This includes Atomic Absorption spectrometers (AAS), UV-Visible spectrometers (UV-Vis), Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission spectrometers (ICP-OES), Inductively Coupled Plasma Time of Flight Mass spectrometers (ICP-TOFMS), High Performance Liquid Chromatographs (HPLC) and Rheological Analysis Equipment. The company is now leading the world in instrument development, launching the most technically advanced ICP Time of Flight Mass Spectrometers (ICP-TOFMS) and the new Micro Fourier Rheometer (MFR 2100).

SOUTHERN ELECTRONIC SERVICES P/L are proud of our long association with GBC Scientific Instruments, whose instruments are now used in some 85 countries around the world.

Solar Industry

The rapidly growing area of solar power has provided another area of demand for high efficiency transformers & chokes.

Remote area power supplies (RAPS) enable rural dwellers to enjoy the same electrical power as city dwellers, without connection to the electricity grid.

SES has been working with the renewable energy sector for nearly twenty years. During that time we have worked from time to time in conjunction with Siemens, Butler Solar, Selectronic Australia, Power Solutions Australia and Solar Systems, developing renewable energy systems. These systems enable the use of renewable energy sources such as solar, wind & micro-hydro to augment power from batteries & generators, all controlled by sine-wave inverters.

Such systems, incorporating SES transformers & chokes, have been used in projects providing power to remote outback regions of Australia as well as grid-connected village electrification in India.

The amazing Solar Sailor (pictured above) uses Hybrid Marine Power (HMP), an integrated hybrid electric technology and Solarsails which harness renewable solar and wind energy. This vessel, used on Sydney Harbour during the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, used transformers & chokes from SES in its inverter & battery charging systems.

University

Due to the versatile nature of our production, SES can produce proto-types, one-off transformers & small production runs, ideally suited to the needs of Universities & similar centres of learning.

Many tertiary institutions throughout Australia, including University of Melbourne, Monash Uni, RMIT, NMIT and University of South Australia have used SES to supply transformers & wound components.

The Redmond Barry Lecture Theatre at Melbourne University used SES to design, build & install the variable AC & DC power supply system integrated in the lectern shown above.

SES has supplied many unusual transformers & wound components to universities, including components for the particle accelerator at Uni of Melbourne , and the Australian Synchrotron at Monash Uni (pictured above).

SES welcomes enquiries from Universities and any other learning institutions. We would be pleased to assist with supply of transformers & other wound components, supply of parts for electrical demonstrations or projects, or just friendly advice on transformer design & applications.

CSIRO

As with universities & other tertiary institutions, many CSIRO divisions use SES to supply their needs for unusual transformers & wound components.

CSIRO Division of Atmospheric Research at Aspendale has used SES transformers & coils for many of their projects over the past decades.

SES is ready to assist with supply of transformers & other wound components to any CSIRO divisions, or any other research organisations.