Dave Sadey is an Electrical Engineer for NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field. He holds BEE and MSEE degrees, both from Cleveland State University. His current interests include operation, protection, and control of aerospace power systems and power trains, machine and machine drives, and power electronics.
The evaluation and verification of Electric Power System performance requires rigorous testing for Aerospace systems. Tests to characterize this performance have typically used a mix of actual, resistive, and/or representative loads throughout the system. Use of electronic loads as a form of representative loads has typically been avoided in many scenarios because electronic loads themselves may influence and invalidate test data. As Aerospace systems scale in size, power, complexity, and cost however, it is critical to obtain a deep understanding of the limitations of electronic load use in power system testing. Once this is accomplished, electronic load use can be evaluated and enabled moving forward for considerable cost and schedule savings. This presentation seeks to highlight cases and rules of thumb where electronic loads may and may-not be used. Test data obtained from NASA Glenn Research Center Test Beds will be provided to validate findings.
This presentation will cover an evaluation of electronic load use for Electric Power System verification for Aerospace Power Systems. Analysis and Test Data will be provided to highlight cases and rules of thumb where electronic loads may and may not be used.
