Power Systems Custom Power Supplies for Demanding Applications

Power Systems

Rugged, custom solutions for harsh environments

Powerful Solutions for Demanding Applications

AirBorn has been developing and selling rugged, highly engineered, power supplies for over 10 years to provide reliable, clean and efficient power on a variety of aerospace programs within extreme temperature, high altitude, and high shock and vibration environments.

Power Systems

Why AirBorn? Vertical Integration that Delivers Value

AirBorn’s power systems and power supplies are embedded systems fully designed in-house to meet the most demanding power requirements. We build everything from the finished product to software, cooling systems, PC Boards and connectors. Then, we handle testing and qualification for you.

Capabilities

Bring us your most challenging power requirements, whether embedded or stand-alone, and our team of experienced, dedicated, power systems engineers will work with you to design a power supply, inverter, or converter leveraging the core power system modules available in-house to minimize development time and costs.

Optical

• Low Noise • High Power Density • Active Filtering

Flight

• High Altitude Operation • Explosive Atmosphere-Stable • Extreme Shock & Vibe Tested

VME

• Power factor correction • ANSI/VITA-compliant • 1/3 phase AC or DC input

Retrofit

• Ground or Flight • Drop-in replacement for fit, form and function • Up to 50% more efficient and 80% smaller than legacy linear power supplies

AirBorn Engineering = Problem Solved

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Intelligent | Embedded | Mil-Grade

System Solutions

Power Systems for Air, Land, and Sea

Optical

• Low Noise • High Power Density • Active Filtering

Flight

• High Altitude Operation • Explosive Atmosphere-Stable • Extreme Shock & Vibe Tested

VME

• Power factor correction • ANSI/VITA-compliant • 1/3 phase AC or DC input

Retrofit

• Ground or Flight • Drop-in replacement for fit, form and function • Up to 50% more efficient and 80% smaller than legacy linear power supplies

AirBorn Engineering = Problem Solved

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High Reliability

• Tough, high reliability systems that do not fail • Operates in environments from -55C to 105C • Designs are optimized to withstand the most violent shock and vibration requirements • 100% factory ESS testing programs available on each deliverable

Model-to-Market Services

• Dedicated Power Systems Expertise operate as an extension arm of your design team • Collaborative design optimizes entire system • Vertically integrated subassembly and qualification saves time and money • Outstanding factory field support expertise

Versatility

• Multiple thermal management schemes available • Flexible I/O interconnect and pin definitions • Multiple communication protocols available (Ethernet, CAN, SPI, I2C) • Existing designs from 30W to 300,000W

• MIL-STD-461 • MIL-STD-704 • MIL-STD-810 • MIL-STD-1275 • MIL-STD-1399 • RTCA DO-160 • EN2282 • MIL-DTL-901 • DEF Stan 61-5

Wide range of power solutions including AC/DC power supplies, DC/DC power supplies, DC/AC inverters, VME power supplies and more.

Designed to Meet the Most Demanding Military Standards

Model-to-Market™

Build-to-Print

Our specialty, the Model-to-Market™ approach, helps customers design and develop power solutions for high-intensity applications. Our dedicated power system engineers can collaborate on a system design, leading all the way through prototype, testing, and qualification one step at a time — optimizing all the way.

Already have a design ready to produce? We can help take that design through testing, qualification, and mass production. Whether you have a power system design ready to go or need AirBorn to step in and develop a concept through to mass production — we have the experience, engineering, and manufacturing know-how to fabricate high-performing, high-quality power systems.

AirBorn has been developing and manufacturing rugged, highly engineered, power supplies for over 30 years to provide reliable, clean and efficient power on a variety of aerospace programs within extreme temperature, high altitude, and high shock and vibration environments.

Embedded Intelligence

• In-house Firmware Development to allow Integration and communication with host controller • Ability to flash Firmware in field as required • Array of available sensors and measurement devices that can be instrumented to gather valuable system data and reported back through multiple communication methods • Active fault and status logging with FIFO buffers

A military-grade power supply designed & Qualified by AirBorn. This unit powers avionics at high altitudes.

VME Chassis + Off-Gimbal Power Supply

• 115V, 3 phase, 400Hz input • Controlled in rush to <6.5A/phase • VME voltages to ANSI/VITA standards • 5V, 50A • 3.3V, 15A • +/-12V, 3A • Qualified to 27,000 feet altitude • 5 slot convection cooled • Off gimbal electronics • 28V, 32A

Single Phase AC Power Supply

• Submarine application • Designed to fit specific footprint in hull of submarine • Convection cooled • 115V, 1 phase, 47-440Hz input • AirBorn design of power supply, power cabling, and cabling to bridge • Qualification of entire system including bridge monitor • 100% ESS screening and verification of operation overa wide thermal range

Avionics reconnaissance application

• PAO or EGW cooling • 115V, 3 phase, 400Hz input • Multiple power outputs • 400Hz AC outputs (x5) • DC outputs (x15) • Embedded measurement systems and control via ethernet • MIL-STD-461E, MIL-STD-704A, MIL-STD-810 • 100% ESS factory screened

VME Power Supply

• PAO Cooling • 115V, 3 phase, 47Hz-440Hz input • Multiple power outputs • 3.3V, 40A • 5V, 100A • +/-12V, 8A • +/-15V, 6A • Power factor correction • MIL-STD-461E, MIL-STD-704E, MIL-STD-810

VME Power Supply

AC/AC+DC Power Supply

Single Phase PS

VME Chassis + PS

A highly anticipated demonstration goes up in smoke when a COTS power supply overheats. They called in AirBorn for help; within 6 months our custom-designed power supply was taking flight. AirBorn Engineering = Problem Solved.

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Watch the video to learn the backstory of our 6 month development to qualifying sprint to support this criticial program.

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