Buck-Boost Transformer

Category: infrastructure

An electrical component used to make minor manual adjustments to an incoming supply voltage level.

Buck-boost units are small, highly cost-effective transformers. They don’t provide full circuit isolation; instead, they tweak voltages up or down by 5% to 20%—such as shifting a standard 208V commercial phase up to 230V to feed an imported industrial air compressor motor safely.

Common Examples

• We integrated a compact buck-boost transformer to raise the low line voltage up to the 240V target that the machinery required.
• Utilizing a buck-boost transformer is an excellent engineering strategy to correct localized line drops without changing the main MDP panel setup.