strodyne Corporation designs, manufactures and solves power conversion challenges worldwide by offering a broad assortment of ac-dc switchers, ac-dc adapters, dc-ac inverters and dc-ac power supplies and features the ability to customize or modify standard parts to fit your needs.  Astrodyne is a leading source of power and sells its products to design engineers and OEMs. 

Currently, Astrodyne carries over 4,000 cost-effective standard and modified power supplies and is continuously expanding its offerings to meet new industry standards and application requirements.  Astrodyne's products are grouped into 11 families of power supply products that span a broad array of markets and application solutions for Commercial, Medical, LED, Alternative Energy, and Military/Aerospace industries. Most items are in stock and ready to ship the same or next business day and backed by some of the best warranties in the business.

Astrodyne's ability to provide a broad product offering, superior technical & customer support, and rapid order fulfillment are core competencies that have enabled Astrodyne to establish itself as an industry leader. Astrodyne's key competitive advantage lies in its ability to provide its customers a broad range of standard power supplies that are available off-the-shelf, along with the ability to modify these designs to meet specific customer requirements.

Astrodyne's products meet or exceed Worldwide Safety and EMC specifications. In addition, every power supply is burned-in for reliability and ATE tested to assure compliance to specifications. Our quality engineers continuously monitor all phases of manufacturing and test to assure that all our products deliver the quality and performance our customers expect.

For more information about Astrodyne Corporation and its products, please visit the company's web site at Astrodyne.com.

Provided by Peter Resca,
Vice President - Sales & Marketing,
Astrodyne Corporation

Power Solutions designs, manufactures and supports products and capabilities that provide higher reliability, efficiency and quality while maintaining low risk, cost, size and weight. Our Power Solutions are marketed to the high reliability industrial, commercial aerospace, defense and space markets via our brands: ELDEC, Interpoint and Keltec. We provide both Standard Power Products and Custom Power Products through facilities located in Redmond and Lynnwood, Washington; Ft. Walton Beach, Florida; and Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Power Solutions products are used in applications from post-generator to point-of-use, spanning a range from > 100 kW to < 10 W.  Our products are used to provide power to or within electronic systems on a variety of commercial aerospace, military and space platforms.
Our Power solutions meet the current and future needs of our customer's applications:

Power for Avionics, Weapons and Utilities Our standard and custom products power the internal computational and user interface circuits for communication, display, mission computing, flight controls, weapons systems and utilities such as aircraft environmental controls.

Power for ISR (Electronic Warfare & Radar)Low voltage solid-state or high voltage traveling wave tube (TWT) based high power products and subsystems for mission critical defense platform and payload applications. High power quality interface to aircraft sources using active or passive means to limit total harmonic distortion.

Secondary Power Low weight, high power quality and high efficiency platform secondary power distribution and management based on proprietary technology. We can provide significant weight and volume savings through integrated power conversion, bus control, and power control.

Energy Storage
Delivering safe integration of energy storage devices, including sealed lead-acid, NiCad and Lithium Ion batteries and integrated battery management systems into aircraft secondary electrical systems while providing the longest maintenance interval and service life at the lowest weight.

Provided by Ernie Parker,
Director of Technology Development
Crane Aerospace & Electronics | Crane Electronics, Inc. - Power Solutions 

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