Empower RF has released a new long duty cycle pulsed amplifier that operates from 5.2 to 5.9 GHz and represents the company’s new technologically advanced liquid cooled, scalable architecture. This breakthrough solid state GaN design replaces tube technology to bring new capabilities to EW, Radar, Directed Energy and SATCOM applications where tens and hundreds of kilowatts of CW and Pulse power are required.
This new modern architecture offers scalability for affordable upgrade paths to future power needs by adding hardware to an existing system. Additional racks can be combined and for racks not fully populated, 2U amplifier drawers can be added without the need for tuning.
The new amplifier, Model 2225, system layout consists of a system controller in a 3U chassis and up to 16 hot swappable 2U amplifier drawers with each amplifier drawer containing an integrated power supply in its 2U chassis. This arrangement eliminates the risk of an RF section or single power supply failure taking the entire amplifier offline. In the event of a failure only a fractional reduction of output power is realized and the amplifier system remains on air.
Key Product Highlights (Model 2225):
- Liquid Cooled Scalable Power Architecture
- No Single Point of RF Device Failure
- Distributed Power Supplies
- On air Hot Swapping
- Asymmetrical and Random Pulse Width and Duty Cycle Operation
- Only Fractional System Spares Needed for Complete Back up System - Only Spare a Couple of 2U Amplifier Drawers and One Controller
- System will Remain Operational and “On the Air” with Graceful Power - Degradation In the Event of an RF Component Failure or High VSWR Condition / Loss of an Amplifier Drawer is Only a Fractional Reduction of Output Power
- Short and Long Pulse Capabilities - 100ns up to 500usec - 500 KHz PRF’s and 20% Duty Cycles
- Full Digital Peak and RMS Detection for Accurate Metering
- No high Voltage Power Supply Anywhere in the Transmitter
- Ethernet Rapid Spanning Tree Architecture for Network Redundancy
- Performance Monitoring and Health Down to the Pallet and Device Level
- Continuous BIT, Down to the Device Level
- Each 2U Amplifier “Building Block” is Digitally Set for Phase and Gain
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