{"id":13784,"date":"2025-07-17T15:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/de\/?p=13784"},"modified":"2025-07-17T15:14:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T13:14:10","slug":"toni-hottner-development-innovative-on-load-tap-changer-vacutap-vi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/en\/07-2025\/toni-hottner-development-innovative-on-load-tap-changer-vacutap-vi\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe have left out everything that is not absolutely necessary.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why did MR develop the VACUTAP\u00ae VI?&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>We want\u00aded to devel\u00adop an effi\u00adcient on-load tap-chang\u00ader that specif\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly meets the cur\u00adrent and future require\u00adments of net\u00adwork oper\u00ada\u00adtion. In urban areas in par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlar, space for trans\u00adform\u00aders in sub\u00adsta\u00adtions is lim\u00adit\u00aded and com\u00adpact designs are there\u00adfore in demand. At the same time, how\u00adev\u00ader, the require\u00adments in net\u00adwork oper\u00ada\u00adtion are increas\u00ading and sus\u00adtain\u00adabil\u00adi\u00adty aspects in pro\u00adduc\u00adtion and oper\u00ada\u00adtion are also play\u00ading an increas\u00ading\u00adly impor\u00adtant role. Nev\u00ader\u00adthe\u00adless, trans\u00adform\u00aders must remain afford\u00adable. When devel\u00adop\u00ading the VACUTAP\u00ae VI, we involved OEMs from the out\u00adset and dis\u00adcussed our con\u00adcept ideas with them so that we could opti\u00admal\u00adly meet the require\u00adments in this pow\u00ader seg\u00adment and real\u00adize sys\u00adtem cost ben\u00ade\u00adfits for our cus\u00adtomers. We have left out every\u00adthing that is not absolute\u00adly nec\u00ades\u00adsary which enables man\u00adu\u00adfac\u00adtur\u00aders to build very com\u00adpact trans\u00adform\u00aders and opti\u00admize their CO<sub>\u00b2<\/sub> foot\u00adprint by using less mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal. And this tap-chang\u00ader is not only suit\u00adable for new trans\u00adform\u00aders. Oper\u00ada\u00adtors can also use it to replace con\u00adven\u00adtion\u00adal oil-based tap-chang\u00aders as part of a retro\u00adfit.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignwide\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large yellow-stripe is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWith the VACUTAP\u00ae VI, man\u00adu\u00adfac\u00adtur\u00aders can build very com\u00adpact trans\u00adform\u00aders.\u201d<\/p>\n<cite>Toni Hot\u00adtner, Head of Electro\u00admechan\u00adi\u00adcal Devel\u00adop\u00adment<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What was special about the development?&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>The biggest chal\u00adlenge was com\u00adbin\u00ading a com\u00adplete\u00adly new on-load tap-chang\u00ader con\u00adcept with a com\u00adplete\u00adly new dri\u00adve con\u00adcept. This was com\u00adplex because numer\u00adous dis\u00adci\u00adplines had to be brought togeth\u00ader, from clas\u00adsic devel\u00adop\u00adment design to dri\u00adve tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy and soft\u00adware pro\u00adgram\u00adming. Thanks to our expe\u00adri\u00adenced teams in the respec\u00adtive areas and the use of sys\u00adtem sim\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtions, we suc\u00adceed\u00aded in cre\u00adat\u00ading a tru\u00adly inno\u00adv\u00ada\u00adtive and future-ori\u00adent\u00aded solu\u00adtion in five years of inten\u00adsive devel\u00adop\u00adment work.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the VACUTAP\u00ae VI, we have left out every\u00adthing that is not absolute\u00adly nec\u00ades\u00adsary which enables man\u00adu\u00adfac\u00adtur\u00aders to build very com\u00adpact trans\u00adform\u00aders and opti\u00admize their CO<sub>\u00b2<\/sub> foot\u00adprint by using less mate\u00adr\u00adi\u00adal. And this tap-chang\u00ader is not only suit\u00adable for new trans\u00adform\u00aders. Oper\u00ada\u00adtors can also use it to replace con\u00adven\u00adtion\u00adal oil-based tap-chang\u00aders as part of a retro\u00adfit.&nbsp;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How did you prepare the new tap-changer for practical use?&nbsp;<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>We have incor\u00adpo\u00adrat\u00aded the in-depth knowl\u00adedge that we have gath\u00adered over the years in the areas of vac\u00adu\u00adum and dri\u00adve tech\u00adnol\u00ado\u00adgy into this new tap-chang\u00ader con\u00adcept, and cus\u00adtomer feed\u00adback from thou\u00adsands of appli\u00adca\u00adtions has also been tak\u00aden into account. In addi\u00adtion, in our test lab\u00ado\u00adra\u00adto\u00adry we have sub\u00adject\u00aded the VACUTAP\u00ae VI to the tough\u00adest tests \u2013 which go beyond the required stan\u00addards \u2013 to prove that it can with\u00adstand even extreme net\u00adwork con\u00addi\u00adtions. What\u2019s more, the tap-chang\u00ader has already been used in real net\u00adwork oper\u00ada\u00adtion by sev\u00ader\u00adal pilot cus\u00adtomers. We have left noth\u00ading to chance!&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toni Hot\u00adtner, Head of Electro\u00admechan\u00adi\u00adcal Devel\u00adop\u00adment at MR, on the devel\u00adop\u00adment of the new VACUTAP\u00ae VI. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":13785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-07-2025","category-onload"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13784"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14666,"href":"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13784\/revisions\/14666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onload.reinhausen.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}