Overview

NEW Capabilities Brochure - Introduction to PCI:

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PERFORMANCE CONTROLS, INC.®, designs, manufactures, sells, and services high bandwidth, low noise electronics for precision amplification and/or control of voltages and currents in medical, government, and industrial markets. PCI's safe and reliable products use the latest technology to couple with a wide impedance range for inductive, capacitive or resistive loads.

Performance Controls' experienced and responsive technical staff has the listening, application, system integration, and project management skills to provide cost effective, tailored solutions to meet your amplification and power management requirements. We can adapt our solutions to be compatible with your design.

In General:

Typical specifications for PCI Power Amplifiers are outlined in the following table. These are not meant to be all inclusive, but only to illustrate PCI capabilities. If you have an application requiring a responsive, high performance, high power PWM amplifier with requirements in or near the ranges indicated, contact us.

PCI  Power Amplifiers Performance Typical Values
Operating Bus Voltage • Volts DC • 24-2200 Volts
Upper-Limit Current Ranges

• Peak Current • 1600 Amps
• Long-term Continuous RMS • 100-400 Amps
• Short-term Continuous RMS • 100-700 Amps
PWM Frequency Ranges • Base Operating Frequency (Device PWM Frequency) • 20 kHz to 40 kHz
• Effective PWM Frequency (Eff. Load/Control Loop PWM Freq.)
• 40 kHz to 200 kHz
Current Loop Bandwidth • Large Signal Bandwidth • DC to 1 kHz
• Small Signal Bandwidth • DC to 20 kHz
Current Loop Gain Accuracy • As percent of setpoint • Within 0.01%
Output Current Noise Levels • 0.5 Hz to 50 Hz • <200 uA RMS
• 10 Hz to 1 kHz • <1.0 mA RMS
Output Offset Current   • < 1 mA
Input Common Mode Rejection • DC to 1 KHz • >80 dB