Gresham Power Electronics today announced the availability of its latest addition to their market leading uTCA power supply series. The 1kW PS-1142 is a high-power module designed for use in MicroTCA systems including instrumentation, scientific and research physics applications. Key Features of the Gresham PS-1142 include; 16 channels of 12V at 7.6A, 16 channels of 3.3V at 200mA, hot swappable N+1 output redundancy, protection against overload, short circuit, over voltage, and over temperature conditions and Class B conducted emission standards.
The new Gresham PS-1142 supports shelves, cube, and other mechanical implementations and complies with the PICMG MicroTCA .4 Revision 1.0 specification. The PS-1142 provides functionality for powering, managing, and protecting a MicroTCA system that includes up to 12 AdvancedMCs, 2 MicroTCA Carrier Hubs and 2 Cooling Units. Provision is made to read the current of each output module and an IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) is provided to allow system administrators to update the power supply firmware if required.
The Gresham PS-1142 also monitors and reports power system status and conditions of operation, manages and isolates faults that affect the power system, provides the power necessary for MCH and CU system elements on system bring-up, supports redundant IPMI (IPMB-0) communication with the MCH/Carrier-Manager, enables and provides power to AMCs, CUs, and additional MCHs under the command of the carrier manager and includes an Enhanced Module Management Controller using two IPMBs (IPMB-A and IPMB-B).
Input voltage is 90–264Vac, 50 / 60Hz with a typical power factor of 0.99, efficiency >88% and the PS-1142 provides a hold-up time of 10ms minimum at 1000W. The Gresham PS-1142 meets safety standards, UL, cUL 60950-1, CSA 60950-1 and VDE 60950-1. The 12V output Payload Power has a total regulation range from 12.25 to 12.95 Vdc when configured as primary PM and 11.60 to 12.00 Vdc when configured as redundant PM. The 3.3V Output Management Power provides a total regulation range from 3.13 to 3.63 Vdc.
The Gresham PS-1142 uTCA power supply has an operating temperature range from 10 to 55 degrees C full load with 300 LFM forced air cooling, a storage temperature range from -40ºC to 85ºC, can with withstand random vibration 10Hz to 500Hz on 3 axis at 1.9 GRMS maximum and shock with peak acceleration of 1 GPK maximum.
MicroTCA offers scientific and instrumentation markets a standardized, highly configurable, hardware platform for a broad range of applications, able to be produced in high volumes at low cost. MicroTCA provides a system architecture allowing AdvancedMC mezzanine cards to be plugged directly into a MicroTCA backplane without a carrier card and its associated costs. The MicroTCA architecture offers high availability systems from none to fully redundant as hot-swappable cubes.
The Gresham Power PS-1142 MicroTCA power supply is also suitable for enterprise and data communications, telecom edge applications and customer premises equipment, digital imaging, industrial and medical equipment.
