Basler Electric is a manufacturer of power systems products based in Highland, Illinois

Highland, Illinois

Highland is a city in Madison County, Illinois, United States. The population was 9,433 at the 2010 census. Highland began as a Swiss settlement and derived its name from later German immigrants.Highland is a sister city of Sursee in Switzerland....

. The company was founded in 1942 by Carl Basler.
In 1945, they began producing custom transformer

Transformer

A transformer is a device that transfers electrical energy from one circuit to another through inductively coupled conductors—the transformer's coils. A varying current in the first or primary winding creates a varying magnetic flux in the transformer's core and thus a varying magnetic field...

s. In 1959, Basler released the SRA voltage regulator

Voltage regulator

A voltage regulator is an electrical regulator designed to automatically maintain a constant voltage level. A voltage regulator may be a simple "feed-forward" design or may include negative feedback control loops. It may use an electromechanical mechanism, or electronic components...

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They also manufacture solid-state and multifunction digital protective relay

Digital protective relay

In electrical engineering of power systems, a digital protective relay uses a microcontroller with software-based protection algorithms for the detection of electrical faults...

s, generator and engine controls, and static excitation systems

Excitation (magnetic)

An electric generator or electric motor consists of a rotor spinning in a magnetic field. The magnetic field may be produced by permanent magnets or by field coils. In the case of a machine with field coils, a current must flow in the coils to generate the field, otherwise no power is transferred...

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History

1942 - The company was founded by Carl Basler.

1945 - start of producing custom transformers.

1947 - Basler Electric Company incorporation.

1959 - Basler introduced the first solid-state voltage regulator, the SRA.

1972 - Basler’s first solid-state relay was developed.

1974 - Basler developed its first Static Excitation System.

1990 - Basler International Group found in Wasselonne, France

early ‘90’s - Basler started development of a Digital Excitation Control System (DECS range)

2004 - Basler opened facility in Suzhou China

2006 - Basler acquired the Cutler-Hammer Excitation Control Product Line

2009 - Basler opened facility in Singapore

See also

• Relay
  Relay
  A relay is an electrically operated switch. Many relays use an electromagnet to operate a switching mechanism mechanically, but other operating principles are also used. Relays are used where it is necessary to control a circuit by a low-power signal , or where several circuits must be controlled...
  
  
• Magnetic Transformer
  Transformer
  A transformer is a device that transfers electrical energy from one circuit to another through inductively coupled conductors—the transformer's coils. A varying current in the first or primary winding creates a varying magnetic flux in the transformer's core and thus a varying magnetic field...
  
  
• Voltage regulator
  Voltage regulator
  A voltage regulator is an electrical regulator designed to automatically maintain a constant voltage level. A voltage regulator may be a simple "feed-forward" design or may include negative feedback control loops. It may use an electromechanical mechanism, or electronic components...
  
  
• Generator

Past media stories on Basler

• The Profesional Service Providers

Research commitments

• Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Controls Lab

External links

• Basler Electric Corporate web site
• Authorized representative Basler Electric for Czech and Slovak Republic
• Basler AG Corporate web site (Unrelated to Basler Electric)
• Basler GmbH (Unrelated to Basler Electric)
• Basler Versicherungen(Unrelated to Basler Electric)