the nacelle of a Wind turbine. Constructed in stainless steel, BGB’s ‘Optilinc’ has exceptional durability protecting the unit from dust and water ingress to IP68 and is not influenced by vibration, humidity, heat, magnetism or other typical slip ring disturbances. The unit can transfer bi-directional data at a rate up to, and beyond, 10Gb per second and can be offered with media converters, switches and wavelength division multiplexers (WDMs) to suit users’ protocols and requirements.

“Multimode units available with ST or RSC connectors are now in production together with bespoke slip ring units and media converters manufactured to customers’ needs and environmental requirements,” Mark Chappell, R&D Manager at BGB Engineering said. “The RSC connector has been fully developed in partnership with Deutsch UK to expand our customer base into fields such as Military, Medical, Oil & Gas and Aerospace.

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Singlemode units are available with ST connectors.”

Optical fibre is proven to have far wider bandwidth than any other media known such as wireless, copper wire, and sonar. A single strand of optical fibre can easily replace a large bundle of copper wires while boosting system bandwidth.

The basic concept of the FORJ is essentially very simple, although a practical implementation requires considerable expertise and attention to detail. This simplicity does however lead to robust and reliable products that can be adapted to a wide variety of applications.

Unlike its counter parts an optical fibre is extremely secure. Even when the fibre is interfered with successfully, it would have created enough disturbances in the system to be detected. Optical fibre has been the most preferred transmission medium in secure systems worldwide especially military and telecom applications.

Electrical current can be extremely harmful in the environment where flammable or explosive materials are used or stored. Optical fibre provides an ideal channel to collect useful information such as temperature, pressure, and humidity.

Combined with electrical slip rings, FORJ’s add a new dimension to traditional rotary joints. BGBs Optilinc FORJ can be combined with existing traditional long standing proven BGB slip ring packages to bridge the gap of older units and to future-proof systems allowing ample bandwidth to the end user.

By providing an optical slip ring together with media converters to suit the customer’s existing data network, the Optilinc FORJ provides a transparent route for the user to extend his bandwidth and data integrity.

BGB have married the high bandwidth of an optical slip ring with their extensive background in power slip rings to offer an integrated unit with power and data transfer as well as an optional shaft position encoder.

More information regarding Optilinc can be found on the BGB Innovation website, under the BGB Telemetry banner (www.bgbinnovation.com). As well as Optilinc, BGB Telemetry is the ‘future technologies’ section of BGB and concentrates on further innovations such as induction and other contactless methods of transferring power, data and signal through rotary applications.

The company web site: http://www.chineseslipring.com