Military Applications
Micro Power Electronics offers a complete line of custom battery packs and battery chargers for military devices. Designing a rugged battery charger starts with understanding the battery. As a manufacturer of portable power solutions, Micro Power Electronics has the fundamental battery chemistry knowledge that is the critical for battery pack and charger design.
Micro Power has the electrical engineering expertise to develop battery packs that have protection circuitry, fuel gauges, and serial communication buses that exceed the strictest Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) requirements for handheld military devices. Our mechanical engineering expertise ensures that our battery packs meet temperature, shock, vibration, and immersion requirements of tactical operations. Micro Power designs chargers for desk-mount usage, as well as vehicle-mount chargers for tactical environments.
The range of tactical warrior and portable military devices supported by Micro Power includes handheld radios, GPS devices, wearable computers, PDAs with encryption, remote sensors, and missiles. Each of these portable devices requires a unique, custom battery pack. Micro Power designs and manufactures custom battery packs and smart battery chargers to military specifications so they can withstand the harshest physical and combat environments.
Micro Power builds rugged battery packs and battery chargers that exceed most of the military specifications relevant to portable power accessories, including;
- MIL-STD-130M - Department of Defense Standard Practice, Identification Marking of U.S. Military Property
- MIL-STD-810F - Environmental test methods.
- MIL-STD-461E - Department of Defense Interface Standard, Requirements for the Control of Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Characteristics of Subsystems and Equipment.
- MIL-PRF-32052 - Performance Specification, Batteries, Rechargeable, Sealed.
- MIL-STD-1275B - Characteristic of 28 Volt Electrical Systems in Military Vehicles
Micro Power offers domestic manufacturing facilities for any product affiliated with a NATO defense project. Micro Power is registered with the U.S. State Department for International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) programs, is compliant with numerous Department of Defense FAR Supplements (DFARS), and accepts DX/DO rated orders.