Class A, Solid State, Broadband, RF Power Amplifiers
10 kHz to 6 GHz, to 12 kW
HV TECHNOLOGIES, Inc. is partnered with EMC broadband amplifier manufacturer Prana providing true Class A solid state RF power amplifiers to the North American market for demanding applications including EMC testing. Prana has delivered over 2,000 amplifiers since 1999. All still fully supported and in service. Prana designs and manufactures everything in house, under one roof, maintaining strict quality control over every product detail, including customer support, and is ISO 9001 certified.
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Why Consider Prana Amps?
They stay in your lab working, keeping you up and running
True Class A linear Operation — with H2, H3 < -20 dBc at 1dB compression; not at “typical” output power selected for specsmanship purposes
Smoke Proof Power Combiners — eliminate the possibility of cascading failure
Withstand — any mismatch and load without damage
Modular — design for easy upgradeability & serviceability
Monitoring, Alerts, & Diagnostics — of critical operating parameters
Fault Tolerant – continue working with the loss of RF power transistor(s)
Brutal Factory Testing – at full power (3dB compression) into open, short, 50Ω, 25Ω, 16.67Ω with up to 900 full power on/off cycles and steady state for up to total 80 hours of testing with all protection schemes (if any present) defeated. Varies by amp, ask for details.
3 Year Factory Warranty — 5 year extended warranty option
Additional Features on Larger Amps:
User Exchangeable RF Power Modules
Hot-Swappable DC Power Supply Modules
Spare DC Power Supply Modules
DC Power Supply Load Balancing Controller auto-switches between redundant supplies should a power supply module go down.
Broadband Amplifier Applications
EMC Testing (Defense, Military, Automotive, Aviation, Aerospace)
IEC 61000-4-3 — Radiated, radio-frequency, electromagnetic field immunity test
IEC 61000-4-6 — Immunity to conducted disturbances, induced by radio-frequency fields
RTCA/DO-160, Section 20 — Radio Frequency Susceptibility, Radiated
MIL-STD-461, CS114, RS103 — Conducted Susceptibility, Bulk Cable Injection — Radiated Susceptibility, Electric Field
ISO 11452-2 – Radiated Immunity in a Stripline or Anechoic Chamber
ISO 11452-4 — Bulk Current Injection — BCI
ISO 11452-9 — Portable Transmitter RF Immunity Testing
SAE J1113-4 — Immunity to Radiated Electromagnetic Fields — Bulk Current Injection (BCI) Method
SAE J551 — Performance Levels and Methods of Measurement of Electromagnetic Compatibility of Vehicles, Boats (up to 15 m), and Machines
RF tests and instrumentation
High-power integrated circuit (IC) testing
Antenna testing
General RF signal generation and amplification for research and development
Radiocommunication
Broadcasting and other forms of wireless communication
Broadcast Transmission, FM, VHF, UHF
Military Communications, high-power communication systems for long-distance, secure, or tactical radio links
Telecommunications Testing: satellite, base station
Jamming and Electronic Warfare
Measurement and research laboratories
Applications that require high-power RF sources
Particle accelerators and colliders
Plasma Physics Research: Plasma heating, fusion research, wave-particle interactions, plasma instabilities, non-linear phenomena
Materials Science: Plasma generation/control, semiconductor manufacturing, thin-film deposition, surface treatment
Aerospace and Defense Research, advanced radar systems, satellite communications, and for testing the resilience of components and systems to high-intensity radiated fields (HIRF)
Medical
Procedures that use radio frequency energy, such as some forms of cancer treatment and other therapeutic applications.
High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU)
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Diathermy and Ablation
Bulk Current Injection (BCI)
Bulk Current Injection probes are used to inject RF current into conductors and cables of electrical and electronic equipment undergoing susceptibility testing. Prana’s BCI probe IP-DR250 is designed to cover most industrial, military and automotive testing standards up to 300mA and aircraft testing up to 600mA. The injection probe with its “clamp-on” feature is simply clamped around the test conductor and becomes a one-turn secondary winding. The injection probe aperture accommodates conductors up to 43.8 mm (1.7 in) in diameter. The IP-DR250 is specially designed to provide minimum insertion loss over the 0.01MHz to 400MHz frequency range. It has a high capacity of heat exchange with the ambient air allowing permanent input power up to 500W.
Applicable Standards: MIL-STD-461, ISO 11452-4, SAE J1113-4, Ford, Chrysler, PSA and other automotive specs
Expertise to Solve Your Needs
HV TECHNOLOGIES not only offers top quality amplifier technologies, it also has the ability to help you size and choose the correct amplifier. We have years of experience and know-how to pull from. It can be very difficult to predict what will happen in every individual setup. There are so many contributing factors that can affect the field such as mismatch (VSWR), cable and system loss, antenna performance, quality of test setup, test standards, field uniformity, test distance, and near field effects. Some of these factors are easy to calculate and predict while others take a little expertise to minimize and understand the effects on required power. With HV TECHNOLOGIES you can be confident with our solutions.