{"id":21662,"date":"2023-09-16T15:45:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T19:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reivax.com\/us\/?p=21662"},"modified":"2025-08-19T13:12:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T17:12:36","slug":"reivax-is-awarded-a-unitrol-5000-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reivax.com\/us\/reivax-is-awarded-a-unitrol-5000-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"REIVAX wins Unitrol 5000 upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\r\n<h1><strong>REIVAX IS AWARDED UNITROL 5000 UPGRADE CONTRACT<\/strong><\/h1>\r\nMontreal (September 16th, 2023) &#8211; REIVAX NORTH AMERICA, a leading provider of excitation systems and digital governors, was awarded a contract to replace aging Unitrol 5000 excitation controls.\r\n\r\nThe UNITROL 5000 system was installed in 2002 and the customer had been having issues to find parts and support for the electronic modules. \u00a0For this reason, the customer decided to replace the UNITROL 5000 excitation controls while maintaining the existing power section.\r\n\r\nUnder the contract REIVAX will be providing a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reivax.com\/us\/excitation-system\/\">RTX Power<\/a> excitation control panel with redundant controllers and I\/O units as well as new SCR bridge interfaces. The existing SCR bridges, AC breaker, bus bars and discharge circuit will be maintained.\r\n\r\nREIVAX has a wide expertise in &#8220;front-end&#8221; control upgrades of other OEM equipment, including excitation systems from ABB, Basler, GE, Andritz and Prime Power\/Siemens. There are over 150 front-end control upgrades installed with REIVAX excitation controllers.\r\n\r\n&#8220;REIVAX new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reivax.com\/us\/excitation-system\/\">RTX Power<\/a> excitation front-end control upgrade solves customer&#8217;s problem of parts obsolescence and support, while at the same time improving overall system reliability and ease of maintenance\u201d said Mike Wallin, CEO and President of REIVAX NORTH AMERICA\r\n<h2><strong>ABOUT REIVAX<\/strong><\/h2>\r\nREIVAX NORTH AMERICA, part of a global company, headquartered in Montreal with manufacturing in Houston, provides solutions in static <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reivax.com\/us\/excitation-system\/\">excitation systems<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reivax.com\/us\/digital-hydro-governor\/\">digital governors<\/a>.\r\n\r\nOur high-performance systems offer customers increased reliability. In addition, our intuitive HMI interface simplifies operation, maintenance and diagnostics for the plant personnel. We provide our customers with complete support through commissioning, training, spare parts and service available 24 hours per day year-round through our toll-free number 1-877-7REIVAX.\r\n\r\nIf you would like more information please check our our latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reivax.com\/us\/reivax-case-studies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"case studies (opens in a new tab)\">case studies<\/a> and learn more about what solutions we can provide for: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reivax.com\/us\/excitation-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"excitation systems (opens in a new tab)\">excitation systems<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reivax.com\/us\/digital-hydro-speed-governor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"hydro speed governor (opens in a new tab)\">digital governors<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reivax.com\/us\/combined-system\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"combined systems (opens in a new tab)\">combined systems<\/a>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<!-- \/wp:post-content --><\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>REIVAX Supplying Excitation Systems to USACE Dardanelle Hydro Station<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":21665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1604,1605],"tags":[1592,1617],"yst_prominent_words":[1534,165,1537,1536,162,160,156,402,1539,1538],"class_list":["post-21662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","category-excitation","tag-excitation-system","tag-unitrol-5000-upgrade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reivax.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reivax.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reivax.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reivax.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reivax.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21662"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.reivax.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22083,"href":"https:\/\/www.reivax.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21662\/revisions\/22083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reivax.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reivax.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reivax.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reivax.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21662"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reivax.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}