It was a hot day on board the USS Enterprise during the Vietnam conflict when naval petty officer Rick Ryan (currently Abbott Technologies’ Director of Operations) witnessed a power failure that grounded an aircraft—a situation that could easily have been avoided. Ryan recalls, “We were conducting tests on repairs that were made on the flight…
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In both military and commercial applications, every electronic system needs a power supply. As is the case with commercial power supplies, the three configurations of military power supplies are AC to DC, DC to DC and DC to AC; consequently, some may be inclined to believe that military and commercial power supplies are one and…
All customers are unique, and so are their power requirements. That’s why Abbott Technologies offers power solutions in three flexible tiers: Fully customized Modified Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) 1. Fully Customized: Abbott Technologies offers from-the-drawing-board full customization, which has earned the company its stellar reputation as a team of design experts. Each custom project…
Power supplies used in military applications must be able to operate in all types of environments, but any good student knows that environments are so much more than temperature. Temperature hardiness is important, but there are other factors that determine a military power supply’s environmental suitability as well. One of these is moisture. From humidity…
Temperatures, moisture, condensing atmospheres, radiation… these are some of the foremost environmental hazards that manufacturers must plan for when designing military power supplies, but there are even more potential environmental challenges that must be considered. One more consideration that power supply manufacturers must be able to design solutions for, and it’s a big one: the…
One key difference between commercial and military power supplies is the range of environments in which they are built to operate. As you may have guessed, military power supplies operate in a wider range of environments than commercial power supplies. That is because power supplies used in military applications are expected to operate in a…