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Batteries and Portable Power
APC Announces New PowerShield Battery Backup Unit
American Power Conversion (APC, West Kingston, RI) has announced an expansion to its dc power systems offering with a 12Vdc battery backup unit for fiber to the home, wireless local loop and voice-over-digital subscriber line telephony equipment. APC's PowerShield offers a local powering solution to the integrated access device units for residential and small business […]
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Communications Power
Meter Treater Offers New HIT Series Surge Connectors for Residential Consumers
The HIT Series by Meter Treater Inc. (Lake Park, FL) allows the establishment of surge-protected single-point ingress to the home for power, telephone, security and cable services. Available from your local power utility, this product series (the NEMA 3R, AC Protection Module, Telephony Protection Module and Coaxial Protection Module) is configurable to the exact application […]
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Batteries and Portable Power
SatCon Technology Reports Results for First Quarter of Fiscal 2001
SatCon Technology Corp. (Cambridge, MA) announced financial results for its fiscal 2001 first quarter ended December 31, 2000. Revenue for the first quarter rose 108 percent to $9.5 million, compared with $4.6 million in the same period last year. Net loss for the quarter ended December 31, 2000, excluding an unrealized loss on $2.9 million […]
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Batteries and Portable Power
Minuteman Introduces New Enterprise Series of UPS
Minuteman (Carrollton, TX) has introduced its Enterprise Series line of UPSs, designed to offer flexible power protection for a variety of applications, including workstations, network bridges, hubs, routers, telephone systems and large servers. Each model offers full protection from ac power sags, surges, spikes and blackouts. All models feature line-interactive voltage regulation, extended back-up time […]
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Communications Power
AstroPower Reports Q2 Results
AstroPower Inc. (Newark, DE) recently announced its second quarter financial results. For the quarter ended June 30, 2000, total revenues were a record $11,911,000, an increase of 49.1 percent from the 1999 second quarter. Product revenues for the three months ended June 30, 2000 were a record $11,038,000, an increase of 52.2 percent from the […]
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Batteries and Portable Power
NBG Technologies Signs Agreement with Long Island Power Authority to Demonstrate Residential PEM Fuel Cell
NBG Technologies Inc. (NBG, Hauppauge, NY) has signed a contract with the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA) to install, demonstrate and evaluate a PEM residential cogeneration fuel cell system developed by H Power Corp. (Clifton, NJ). The fuel cell system, which is powered by hydrogen derived from natural gas, will be installed on a site […]
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Communications Power
Compaq Computer Announces New Power Distribution Units
Compaq Computer Corp. (Houston, TX) PDUs offer power protection and distribution for rack-mounted telecom equipment, servers, storage and other options. Compaq PDU products manage power distribution in rack environments without consuming valuable rack U-space. The new PDUs have a smaller form factor, which allow them to be mounted in either a zero-U or 1U configuration, […]
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Batteries and Portable Power
American Power Conversion Completes First Stage of UPS Installment for USDataCenters
American Power Conversion Corp. (APC, West Kingston, RI) and USDataCenters Inc. (Marlborough, MA) announced the completion of the first-stage implementation of an APC Silcon 1.5MW UPS system plus built-in redundancy. USDataCenters is building the UPS system to ensure a no-fail power supply of 200W per square foot at its Marlborough, MA, data center facility. "Unlike […]
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Power Components
Microsemi Reports First Quarter 2001 Financial Results
Microsemi Corp. (Santa Ana, CA) announced results for the first quarter of fiscal year 2001. For the first quarter, which ended December 31, 2000, the company's net sales increased 23 percent to $63.0 million, compared with pro forma net sales of $51.1 million in the prior-year period, which excludes net sales of a business sold […]
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Batteries and Portable Power
Precise Power Develops Roesel Motor Generator
Precise Power Corp. (Palmetto, FL) has developed the Roesel Motor Generator (RMG) to meet the needs of customers requiring uninterruptible power-quality protection. The RMG consists of a written-pole motor linked by a shaft with a written-pole generator. The motor within the RMG starts a high inertia rotor, which doubles as a flywheel. Using flywheel technology, […]
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Automotive Electronics
Intersil Sells Discrete Power Business to Fairchild Semiconductor
Intersil Corp. (Palm Bay, FL) has signed an agreement to sell its discrete power business to Fairchild Semiconductor International (Sunnyvale, CA) for about $338 million in cash. Intersil expects a one-time gain during the first quarter and plans to use proceeds for acquisitions, alliances and product development. Fairchild estimates that the combination of its power […]
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Communications Power
Northwest Power Integrations Introduces New Power Supply, PowerBank1000AC
Northwest Power Integrations (NPI, Milwaukie, OR), a Vicor Integration Architect, introduced a new, general-purpose, high-power, low-profile power supply. From inputs of 115/230Vac, it provides five outputs from 1.8V to 52V, up to 160A per output, or 800W/1,000W of total output power. Designated PowerBank1000AC, it is configured with high-current, locking connectors. It is also offered with […]
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Power Quality
Belkin Components Introduces New Regulator Pro Mac Series UPS
Belkin Components (Compton, CA) introduced its new Regulator Pro Mac Series UPS. Available in two models, a 400Va unit, F6C500-USB-MAC; and a 650Va unit, F6C650-USB-MAC, the new series is designed specifically for the iMac and G4/G4 computer user. Belkin claims that their Regulator Pro Mac Series UPS is the first to feature shut-down software for […]
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Automotive Electronics
TPL Develops New Polymer with High Dielectric Constant
A new polymer, developed with funding by TPL Inc. (Albuquerque, NM), may halve the size of the military's truck-borne pulsed-power capacitor banks, leading to more mobile weaponry. The polymer has a dielectric constant of 8.0, twice that of other insulating polymers used in capacitors, with the potential to go even higher. As a result, it […]
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968Power QualityPower Measurement Debuts New 6200 ION Power Meter
Power Measurement (Victoria, BC) has introduced the 6200 ION three-phase power and energy meter. Standing 4" wide and 2" deep, the 6200...
