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In the past, we’ve seen the movie industry attack “fansub” efforts for trying to translate movies into other languages. But, in the video game industry, we did see glimmers of hope when a publisher allowed fansubbers to complete their version of the translation and compete side-by-side with the commercial translated version in the marketplace. So, it’s sad to see Japanese game maker Minori slap TLWiki, a translation site, with a DMCA takedown for their work on a one of their games. Apparently, this was after an edit war on the wiki itself, where the game maker supposedly deleted the entire contents of a page, replacing it with:

minori holds copyright over all the files made available on this webpage. We, minori, have removed the contents of this page because the owner of this page has not received our permission for distribution of these materials. Please understand [the above statements]. Still, if there are objections, etc., please contact Minori, Inc. in Japanese at [email protected].

Of course, since wikis have an easy rollback feature to prevent errant deletions like this, this change was easily reverted, and after a few more rounds of edits & reverts, the site was slapped with an official DMCA takedown notice. Once again, quashing fansub efforts is a fantastic way to annoy and disenfranchise your most loyal fans, who donate hours of their free labor as a hobby. We’ve seen ways to engage these communities advantageously (like hiring them to do the official translation), so surely Minori should take note.

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The movie below shows how the northern European airspace returned to normal use after being closed due to volcanic ash from Iceland last week. Due to the varying ash densities across Europe, the first (test?) flights can already be seen in some areas from the 18th April. By the 20th April, all airports were opened again.

The movie was created by ITO World, based on the data retrieved from Flight Radar 24.

See also OpenStreetMap Edits Animation.

Remember those Rorschach teasers for Dead Space 2 that came out late last year? Apparently, that’s not the last of it as Viscral sent yet another batch of these tests/ teasers to media.
 
 
 
 

Eco Factor: Fabric made from germanium nanowires to harness solar energy.

A tissue paper-like fabric created from germanium and silicon could prove to be as strong as Kevlar and as an added advantage it can harvest solar energy as well. Unlike bulk germanium, which isn’t flexible and is highly brittle, the fabric created from nanowires is flexible and is as strong as Kevlar.

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A Michelin, organizadora da 10º edição do Challenge Bibendum, antecipa algumas das grandes novidades que os cerca de 4 mil convidados vão poder conferir durante o evento. De 30 de maio até 2 de junho serão realizados no Rio de Janeiro testes técnicos, mesas redondas e um rali com carros de passeio, utilitários, ônibus, caminhões e motos, além de test-drive com veículos experimentais e protótipos.

Todos os participantes do evento com habilitação no Brasil terão à disposição veículos para testar e avaliar o desempenho de cada tecnologia, adaptações e soluções encontradas por cada fabricante. Será montado um Centro de Exposição Tecnológica onde os segredos mais bem guardados da indústria automotiva, voltados para a mobilidade rodoviária de maneira sustentável, serão apresentados aos convidados pelas montadoras, pesquisadores, universitários e fornecedores de energia.

Os testes técnicos e o rali acontecerão em três categorias. A primeira, que envolve os carros de passeio, terá como ponto de largada o Riocentro, com destino à Areal. A categoria de veículos rodoviários, caminhões e ônibus de viagem sairá do Riocentro em direção à cidade de Resende. A terceira e última, que inclui veículos urbanos, caminhões de entrega, ônibus e motos, fará um percurso pela Barra da Tijuca.

Ainda haverá no Michelin Challenge Bibendum um concurso de design com os veículos que conquistarem pelo menos um prêmio ambiental, levando em conta a integração da tecnologia embarcada. O júri, composto por especialistas do setor automobilístico do mundo todo, avaliará o apelo emocional, design exterior e interior e o grau de aceitação do conceito de todas as categorias para decidir o vencedor.

Fonte: Printer Press

Korea’s LG Display has developed an LCD panel that can display clear images even when its surface temperature exceeds 100° Celsius. Normally when the surface temperature of an LCD panel exceeds 75° Celsius, part of the display turns black, requiring a separate UV-blocking film, cooling system and protective glass and entailing additional costs and electricity consumption for safe operation. The panel will be cheaper than existing panels, much brighter and can be expected to accelerate the pace of growth of the overall public information display market.
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Product launch:
The new super compact HeatPAC will be launched in April 2010, extending INHECO’s current range of thermal products for labautomation platforms. Heating up to a high 135° C, the device has the footprint of a SBS Microplate, combined with a very low height of only 30 mm (deck to contact surface).
This makes it ideal for workstations with limited space between the pipetting head and the heating block, eliminating the need for cut-outs or enabling the use of deepwell disposables. Temperature control is achieved either through the INHECO Single TEC Control (STC), or through the INHECO Multi TEC Control (MTC) for up to six heating devices – or any other INHECO product.

INHECO offers adapter plates to optimize the heat transfer and temperature uniformity for a range of commonly used microplates, deepwell plates, tubes and reservoirs. These adapters will fit onto the new heating unit just as well as on the INHECO CPAC heating/cooling product range, including customized adapters, offering an economical solution through standardization.

Demo units are available on request.

For any further information, please contact us at [email protected] or call us at +49 89 899 593 101.

In its capacity as a radio expert, ADEUNIS RF brings real added value to the installation, the setting-up and also the updating and real-time management of digital information of these electronic displays.

Here are some examples : Local information relayed by multi-line electronic visual display units on poles or integrated into totem display units.

Thanks to the implementation of a dozen display panels distributed all over the area, this region of Isère has been able to publish news with push technology, so allowing a lot of people to access information updated in real-time.

The solution implemented by ADEUNIS RF allows them to control and publish personalised information following the installation of display units in different districts. The content is controlled remotely by the local council and updated individually by a simple PC located at the council buildings.

This solution is based on the ARF 53 modem data from ADEUNIS RF, including unique addressing and a repeater function. So, each display unit can be both a displayer and a repeater at the same time, which allows the local council to wipe out any problems linked to the use of a GSM/GPRS networks, as well as any subscription costs incurred.

These examples of the usage of the Adeunis RF wireless solutions in the display and information sector are not the only ones. Many other types of usage exist in the field. Regardless of whether you use our Bluetooth, RF or Wi-Fi solutions, the wireless technology offers a huge scope of possibilities and opportunities.
Do you have a question? Or an idea? Or a plan? Do not hesitate to contact our team who will advise you with pleasure and accompany you through every step of the process.

Provides Variety of Power Solutions for Medical Device Applications

The expanded family of compact Pittman® slotless brushless DC motors has been engineered to outperform traditional motors in medical device applications requiring high efficiency and power with minimal heat, EMI, vibration, and noise. They are sized ideally to serve as high-performance power solutions in medical instruments, dental drills, and other handheld or small medical devices.
This family of small motors introduces a wide variety of power solutions for device applications with tight design envelopes. Motor diameters range from 0.375 in. / 9.53mm to 1.1 in. / 28mm and, depending on model, the motors can develop speeds up to 70,000 RPM under varying loads. Achievable continuous torque ratings approach 15 oz-in for the larger diameter series.
All models incorporate patented “Parallex” winding geometry promoting high efficiency by delivering more power using less energy. They additionally feature high-energy neodymium magnets for enhanced performance, robust construction with stainless steel housings for durability and corrosion-resistance, and precision and shielded ABEC bearings and balanced rotors contributing to smooth and quiet operation. Autoclavable versions are also available and capable of realizing extremely high cycle count.
Other standard features include 2- or 4-pole rotor, 3-phase stator, and Hall sensors. The motors can be customized with planetary gearboxes, optical encoders, and controllers, among other options, to tailor motor to application.
AMETEK Technical & Industrial Products, Inc. is a unit of AMETEK, Inc., a leading global manufacturer of electronic instruments and electromechanical devices with annual sales of more than $2.1 billion.

ISONIC 2010 uniquely combines phased array, conventional UT, and TOFD modalities providing 100% raw data recording and imaging. Along with superior portability, lightweight, and battery operation this makes it suitable for all kinds of every-day ultrasonic inspections
Phased array modality is performed by powerful 32:32 phased array electronics with independently adjustable emitting and receiving aperture, each may consist of 1 through 32 elements. Groups of phased array probe elements composing emitting and receiving aperture may be fully or partially matching or totally separated allowing flexible managing of incidence angles, focal distances, types of radiated and received waves including directly reflected and diffracted mode converted signals
Each channel is equipped with it’s own A/D converter. Parallel firing, A/D conversion, and “on-the-fly” digital phasing are provided for every possible composition and size of the emitting and receiving aperture. Thus implementation of each focal law is completed within single pulsing / receiving cycle providing maximal possible inspection speed

ISONIC 2010 is additionally equipped with independent channel for conventional UT and TOFD inspection and recording capable for both single and dual modes of pulsing/receiving
High ultrasonic performance is achieved through firing phased array, TOFD, and conventional probes with bipolar square wave initial pulse with wide-range-tunable duration and amplitude. Maximal amplitude of bipolar square wave initial pulse is 300 V pp for phased array and 400 V pp for conventional channel. High stability of the amplitude and shape of the initial pulse, boosting of all it’s leading and falling edges, and electronic damping are provided by the special circuit significantly improving signal to noise ratio and resolution. Thus analogue gain for each modality is controllable over 0…100 dB range
640X480 pixels 6.5″ bright touch screen provides optimal resolution / power consumption rate for the outdoor operation

Gibbs and Associates, developer of GibbsCAM® software for programming CNC machine tools and a Cimatron (Nasdaq: CIMT) company, announced today that its latest release, GibbsCAM 2010, in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, has been certified for Autodesk Inventor 2011 Digital Prototyping software under the Autodesk Inventor Certified Application Program. Certification is granted only after a product has been thoroughly tested by Autodesk to ensure it meets Autodesk’s guidelines and testing criteria, including proof that the product is based on the Autodesk Inventor API (application programming interface). Certification demonstrates that the product is of high quality and up to date, and that it provides the highest level of interoperability with Autodesk Inventor software.

Autodesk Inventor is the only Autodesk Manufacturing Industry Group product with a certification program. Digital Prototyping with Autodesk Inventor software gives manufacturers the ability to digitally design, visualize and simulate how a product will work under real world conditions before it is built, which helps reduce cost and speed time to market in highly competitive industries.

“Autodesk Inventor users can rest assured that they will continue to have the high interoperability they have enjoyed between GibbsCAM and Autodesk Inventor for several years,” said Bill Gibbs, founder and president of Gibbs and Associates, “but now with both versions of GibbsCAM, 32-bit and 64-bit, which have been shipping since January. Our joint customers will be very pleased with the number and depth of features included in GibbsCAM 2010, as they begin to take advantage of the multiple usability and functional enhancements and new machining features that we included.”

GibbsCAM 2010, which has also gained the “Compatible with Windows 7” status from Microsoft, for both the 32-bit and 64-bit editions, includes additions to the 5-axis module, such as adaptive cuts, impeller roughing and tool retraction options; additions to Advanced 3D (Solids) Machining, including a new plunge roughing function for very fast material removal with inserted tools, and integration of the ultra high performance toolpath of VoluMill, for fast and efficient material removal with traditional end mills, plus machining strategy and tool entry-exit additions; additions to Multi-Task Machining’s Sync Manager and the Wire EDM modules; and many ease-of-use and interface enhancements across the product suite.

“We are very pleased to have Gibbs and Associates renew Inventor certification for GibbsCAM,” said Amy Bunszel, senior director of Digital Engineering, Autodesk Manufacturing Industry Group. “GibbsCAM has supported Autodesk Inventor with direct reading of Inventor models for ten years, and the Gibbs dedication to interoperability and ease of use strongly supports our goals. We are proud to have companies like Gibbs and Associates as partners in delivering extensible, flexible and easy-to-use applications to our shared manufacturing customers.”

GibbsCAM reads native Autodesk Inventor models and assemblies directly for process planning and toolpath generation. The Inventor-to-GibbsCAM add-in also allows transferring Autodesk Inventor models and assemblies directly from Autodesk Inventor to GibbsCAM. Updates to part geometry and process parameters are readily accommodated by GibbsCAM’s full associativity across geometry, processes and toolpaths. GibbsCAM’s industry leading ease-of-use allows users to quickly take advantage of its powerful capabilities – from minimizing the time it takes to learn use of the software, to making manufacturing engineering tasks and production machining extremely intuitive and efficient.

EtherNet/IP communication and PROFIBUS redundancy

In 2009, R. STAHL’s IS1 system was the first remote I/O solution worldwide to be equipped with a Fast Industrial Ethernet interface. Now also capable of EtherNet/IP communication, the solution, which was limited to the Modbus TCP protocol up to now, has become more flexible. EtherNet/IP paves the way into the world of Rockwell- and Allen Bradley-compatible systems and interfaces, which are supported by most PLCs and control systems. Fulfilling strict real-time requirements, the protocol has a key advantage over Modbus TCP. Users can configure and parameterise the system by means of a high-performance DTM which also provides a wide range of diagnostic functions and enables condition monitoring.

R. STAHL now also provides more installation flexibility for the proven IS1 PROFIBUS versions. Due to great demand, the company had already developed proprietary solutions with line and system redundancy. Additionally, IS1 is now also available with a system redundancy compliant with the “PROFIBUS Slave Redundancy” specification. In automation systems which support this standardised solution, IS1 runs as a redundant slave. Today, these systems mainly include controllers from Siemens and ABB. In order to provide a driver-independent, standardised redundancy solution for users employing other control systems, R. STAHL has designed a universally applicable implementation. Virtually all other systems can be operated with IS1 in a fully redundant layout with a so-called “Flying Master” redundancy. Successful tests have already been carried out with the Delta V control system from Emerson Process Management and with Centum VP from Yokogawa. The IS1 remote system for hazardous areas, which has been claiming market leadership in zone 1 installations for a long time, asserts its technological leadership position with its new extended functions. The Ethernet platform will also ensure support for the upcoming high-performance process automation protocols PROFINET and FOUNDATION™ fieldbus HSE. Furthermore, R. STAHL will also pursue up-to-date developments for standard PROFIBUS DP installations.

Metal service center JACQUET Southeast is now offering large-format water jet cutting services to the southeastern U.S. at its new metal processing and distribution center in Charlotte, N.C.

JACQUET Southeast is capable of processing materials up to 21’x13′ on its Jet Edge Mid Rail Gantry water jet cutting machine. The company also offers plasma cutting services and carries 19 different grades of stainless steel and nickel alloy plates in a wide variety of sizes and thicknesses.

A subsidiary of JACQUET Mid-Atlantic of Pottstown, Pa., and JACQUET Metals of Lyon Saint Priest, France, JACQUET Southeast serves the Carolinas, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida and Alabama. It is one of five JACQUET metal service centers in the U.S. JACQUET also has service centers in Pottstown, Houston, Racine, Wis., and Irvine, Calif.

JACQUET Southeast specializes in supplying and processing stainless steel and nickel alloys for a wide variety of industries, including power generation, chemical processing, wastewater treatment, aviation and aerospace, textiles and nuclear applications. With its water jet and plasma cutting capabilities, the company can offer standard shape cutting of rings or discs as well as intricate parts from customer drawings.

More Information

For more information about JACQUET Southeast visit www.myjacquet.com or call (704) 699-5116.

For more information about Jet Edge, visit www.jetedge.com, or call 1-800-JET-EDGE (538-3343).

From the evolution of M-Red Pc made by SCE, born the newest Industrial PC Maranello Made in Red NEW METAL.

The innovation of this new Industrial PC series consists in a completely alloyed aluminium chassis for a better protection and a more efficient heat dissipation, thanks also to its rear and lateral flaps.

Available with 12” or 15” frontal panel, M-RED NEW METAL PC maintain all the wireless functionality (wi-fi and Bluetooth) that characterized the M-Red PC series adding the robustness given by the aluminium chassis.

M-RED NEW METAL PC will be presented for the first time on the occasion of the coming Hannovermesse

The I 400 TC transmitter is an item in the PRECIA MOLEN I 400 range. It performs :
– direct connection of a load cell or up to 8 cells using an external junction box.
– analogue/digital conversion and transmission of the weight information via the native CAN Open field bus.
– all the weighing functions on the associated measurement scale : calibration, zeroing, stability, continuous flow rate calculation with response time configuration, multi-slope calibration, multi-range weighing, etc.
– local or remote management of 2 logical inputs and 2 outputs and one 4-20 mA analogue output.
– simple integration on a DIN rail at the rear of a cabinet.
The transmitter is available in 2 versions:
– model I 400 TC with measurement channel only.
– model I 400 TC-IO with measurement channel and inputs/outputs.
The transmitters are simply clipped onto the rail and are therefore mechanically guided by the connector.
Insertion of the bus connector in the Omega rail and assembly of the transmitters ensures continuity of the CAN bus and power supply.
This design enables individual complete transmitters to be withdrawn without interrupting the continuity of the field bus.

Taylor Hobson Surtronic 25 is put through its paces. Richard Parker of Trescal, Europe’s largest calibration and measurement providers, explains all…

Trescal, born from a strategic break off from Air Liquide in 2004 quickly became Europe’s largest calibration and measurement provider. Trescal operates over 45 calibration service centres and employs over 1000 people across Europe; we service 20,000 customers and handle over 600,000 calibration operations every year covering a large range of sectors such as Defense, Aerospace, Aeronautics, Automotive, Power Generation & Utilities, Electronics Manufacturing, Communications and Medical & Chemistry.

All of our sites have ISO certification and all our labs are accredited under ISO17025 in some specific domains. Our accredited labs cover a broad spectrum of technologies such as Accelerometry, Acoustic, Climatic, Dimensional, Electricity / Magnetism, Time / Frequency, Gas Flowmeter, Liquid Flowmeter, Force, Torque, Hardness, Mass / Scale, Photometry, Pressure / Vacuum, Radiometry / Optical, Temperature, Humidity, Volume.

To be able to service and support all the above industries and application areas to the highest possible standards we constantly invest in new equipment and resources.
To keep in line with our strict quality standards we will not utilise any equipment without a product trial including a full gauge R &R (Repeatability & Reproducibility).

One of our more recent requirements was for portable surface finish equipment. For this purpose we trialled a number of products including Taylor Hobson’s Surtronic 25 hand held roughness checker. This is an Instrument designed to measure the roughness of various surfaces and lends itself to a variety of applications and industries.

Richard Parker, Technical Manager of Trescal comments:

“The Surtronic 25 passed Trescal bench with ease. This is a robust product that ticked all the boxes for Trescal requirements. I was especially impressed with the additional software package for the Surtronic 25 which was very easy to use and offered a host of additional analysis and processing features”

Plastic materials for ophthalmic lenses have seen continual developments, and for this reason, have gradually replaced glass materials. Today, most corrective lenses are made of thermoplastic and thermosetting resins The success of plastic lenses is growing even more due to technical breakthroughs enabling lenses to be thinner and lighter, and a greatly increase of their impact resistance by using sophisticated treatment and coating methods.
Since plastics are composed of non-polar, long-chain molecules, their surfaces have little free energy, and are essentially inert. The low surface energies of plastics thus pose adhesion and wettability problems for lens manufacturers. Corona treatment plays an important role to promote better adhesion properties by changing the surface characteristics, breaking the molecular bonds on the substrate surface. This increases surface energy and thereby the surface wet ability without affecting the optical properties.
Ophthalmic plastic lenses are sophisticated products, and their performance rely very much on the surface treatments they are undergoing in the manufacturing process prior to applying i.e., tinted, photochromism or hard coatings.
In conjunction with some of the worlds leading lens manufacturers, Tantec A/S, Denmark, has developed Corona treaters to improve quality and productivity of optical lens manufacturing. The new in-line Corona treaters are now making the labour intensive batch pre-treatment very ineffective.
After treatment the water spreads evenly on the surface, and an ultra-clean surface is presented to the following coating processes.
After washing and drying, the Corona treatment effect is more or less gone, therefore, the lenses are passing through a second RotoTEC unit on the line to re-establish high surface tension before the first coating process. A third RotoTEC is required downstream, if a further layer of coating is prescribed i.e, photochromic or hard coatings.
A Tantec RotoTEC is available as a single- or double lane o-ring conveyor with an open front design for easy access and quick exchange of endless transport belts. All belts are changed within 3-5 minutes without disassembling any machine parts.
Tantec is a pioneer of developing equipment for surface treatment of plastic components such as ophthalmic lenses. For further information on surface treatment please visit www.tantec.com

Power supply and physical layer diagnostics on the bus

R. STAHL’s new Advanced Fieldbus Power Supply (A-FPS) is the first and only power supply module for FOUNDATION™ fieldbus H1 segments to additionally provide a wide range of physical layer diagnosis functions. At a mere 10% premium over the standard supply module from the same series, the integrated devices enable complete and continuous plant monitoring. In the past, the integration into asset management systems required separate, cost-intensive diagnosis modules and software tools. Each Advanced Fieldbus Power Supply (A-FPS) not only detects overload and short circuits on its segments, but also continuously registers the physical parameters of the fieldbus, such as voltage and current on the trunk, communication level, noise level, asymmetries and jitter.

Error messages can be routed to a management software via the Diagnosis Communication Module (DCM) and the FF H1. Additionally, they are signalled via a potential-free relay contact. A serial interface on the front side makes it possible to read out detailed data on site by means of standard terminal programs. Lastly, colour LEDs in a traffic light design following the NAMUR NE107 scheme ensure that untrained staff members can identify problems at the module at first glance. In case of deteriorating transfer quality on the bus, warning messages can be triggered proactively, allowing users to make adjustments before a segment fails. The line quality threshold value can be manually adjusted by means of a control dial at the module. The compact units can be installed on a DIN rail or on a bus-Carrier which houses modules for up to eight standard-supply segments or four segments with a redundant supply. The carrier systems are also available as adapted, easy-to-handle models for specific host systems and their plug connectors, such as Emerson Delta V and Yokogawa Centum VP (upcoming models will be suitable for Honeywell and Invensys controllers). Each power supply module features an integrated terminating resistor which can be turned off in host systems with their own bus terminator. Just like the basic version, the Advanced Fieldbus Power Supply System supplies the fieldbus with 28 V and 500 mA and enables a 1 A supply via a parallel connection of two devices in “Boost” mode. If users decide on a redundant supply setup in which two modules provide 250 mA each, they will automatically also benefit from redundant diagnosis functions.

A GOOD NEW FOR THE OIL-HYDRAULIC! SERV-CLIP® THE PIPE MEASURING POINT is a patented product and registered trade mark of BKM in Hagen-GERMANY.

– Connect into system UNDER PRESSURE
up to 630 bar (9100 psi)
WITHOUT TUBING SEPARATION IN 3 MINUTES

– (incl. M16X2) ALLOWS CONNECTION OF SENSORS
AND SCREWED COUPLINGS

CHECK IMMEDIATELY: Pressure, Temperature,
Flow Rate, Leakage, Aqua content in oil,
Particle Contamination and more

– For Diameters : 10 to 88,9 mm + Imperial NB & OD and specials

How works serv-Clip®?
FAST ASSEMBLY (3 Minutes)
A needle is pressed through the wall of the pipe. It uses the principle of plastic deformation to create a leak-proof opening.

Good quality reasons :
-No contamination of the oil through swarfs
-Working pressure up to 630 bar.
-Viton O-ring (+200°C) is supported outwards always orthogonal towards the tubular axis.
-The needle is conical and the leak proof is closed after the installation.

Measuring immediately – without tubing separation

OPTIONS :
Type 1: for mounting ON pressurized pipes
(no shutdown of your installations)

Type 2: for mounting on NON pressurized pipes (Installation of SENSORS possible!!)

TASTE SERVCLIP IN COMBINATION WITH OUR SENSORS
Flow rate (*) fluid-Check® (up to 600 Liter/minute)
Leakage (*) fluid-Check® (from 0,02 Liter/Minute)
Pressure
Temperature (*)
Oil samplings
Aqua quote (*)
Particle counters
Ventilation

(*) Installation with SERVCLIP Type 2 only possible– for non pressurized pipes. –

Contact us to resolve your Hydraulic maintenance problem under [email protected] or see our Installation videos under our website.

Fairview, PA – April 6, 2010 – Spectrum Advanced Specialty Products announces the addition of MIL-PRF-49470 approval for Switch Mode Power Supply capacitors to its extensive military QPL offerings. Spectrum’s SMP capacitors have a better performance than tantalum or aluminum electrolytic capacitors, featuring low ESR and ESL. These capacitors, available in industry-standard or custom case sizes, are all made in Spectrum’s established MIL-STD-70 ceramic facility located in State College, PA.

Spectrum’s Switch Mode Power Supply capacitors are excellent for input/output filtering for military and high reliability power supplies and high capacitance discharge units. Functioning at high frequencies or high power, these capacitors have a capacitance of up to 180 microfarads, with tolerances of 10% or 20%. The capacitor is designed to withstand temperatures ranging from -55 degrees Celsius to +125 degrees Celsius, making it an ideal choice for a broad range of environments. To help safeguard the device from thermal and mechanical stresses, the capacitor is offered in through-hole or surface mount leaded configurations of N, J or L. Additionally, BP, BX, BR or BQ ceramics are available, all able to withstand voltages ranging from 50 to 500 VDC.

The MIL-PRF-49470 qualified Switch Mode Power Supply product adds to the already wide range of Spectrum QPL listings. With the largest number of MIL-PRF-15733, MIL-PRF-28861 and legacy 87106, DSCC 84084 and MIL-C-11015 products, Spectrum is considered a primary supplier for many aircraft, ship and weapons programs maintained by NATO defense branches. Spectrum is also an ideal choice for competitively priced drop-in replacement and repair products.

As a trusted military partner, Spectrum ensures the quality and reliability of each QPL product through its unique in-house testing capabilities. With both EMC and environmental testing, Spectrum offers the most comprehensive EMI evaluation and design resource available. Testing capabilities include environmental stress screening (ESS), analytical circuit design, surge testing and mechanical shock resistance testing. All testing results are integrated into the design process, resulting in an optimum product that will withstand even the harshest environments.