News

May 6, 2006

TEAL ELECTRONICS announces the GATEKEEPER™ power conditioner product line, a COTS family of generic power line conditioners available for military and aerospace automated test equipment.

The GATEKEEPER™ Power Conditioning and Distribution Units, 10kVA, 15kVA, 20kVA, 30kVA models, are the first commercial-off-the-shelf series of power conditioners being delivered to defense industry manufacturers of automatic test equipment and other line noise sensitive electronics. The GATEKEEPER™ family of products allows systems to operate from three phase 208VAC power grids, mitigating the effects of line transients and harmonics that can destroy or seriously weaken many electronic components and loads.

These initial models, STG10R, STG15R, STG20R & STG30R, operate from three phase line power, providing conditioning through a low impedance isolation transformer with multiple taps for alternative world-input-voltages, isolating the output neutral and power leg from the input line. The unit also includes patented TEALwave® low pass tracking filters along with redundant surge suppressors to withstand and protect against worst-case power line surges up to 6000V/3000A for both ring-wave and impulse waveforms.

The GATEKEEPER™ product line is designed to satisfy the COTS demand of the military services. The main benefits are the assurance of clean power during the initial development and setup, and the ongoing mitigation of line transient problems typical in field and at depot level operations. Additional benefits include the simplification of installations by allowing plug and play setup, eliminating the need for multi-box distribution, isolation and protection solutions.

TEAL Product Manager, Bob Close, stated, “The new GATEKEEPER™ product is just a sample of things to come, as TEAL addresses the ever increasing need for Defense and Aerospace clean power. The advance of switching power supplies and other non-linear loads has complicated the power problem as much as the strategic need to operate in theaters having unknown power quality, when quiet mobile power is not an economical solution. We hope that these new generic products will help both test engineers and military field support personnel meet their future needs through the availability of COTS PCDUs with a broad selection of features.”

The PCDU-STG20R list price is about $14,000 depending on options requested.

For questions pertaining to performance, pricing or availability, contact Bob Close at 898-558-9000 or email rclose@teal.com

About TEAL Electronics Corporation

TEAL Electronics is the leading provider of custom power subsystems for the technology sector, primarily serving the medical imaging and semiconductor production/testing markets. Its mission is to help customers make products that are more competitive and reliable by engineering and manufacturing innovative custom power solutions.

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For more information, contact: TEAL Electronics, 10350 Sorrento Valley Road, San Diego, CA 92121, (858) 558-9000, Fax (858) 558-9500, www.teal.com.

Press Contacts:
TEAL Electronics Corporation
Kevin Harris, 858.558.9000, x277
kharris@teal.com