Ultra-miniature DC modules are fitted in small housings that can be soldered directly to printed circuits; input voltages are 12, 15 or 24V and output voltages 200V to 4kV with maximum power of 4W
Claiming to be the only French designer of low and medium power high voltage converters, SDS is one of only two or three manufacturers in the world to supply ultra-miniature DC modules.
Intended primarily for the electron microscopy sector, they are fitted in small housing boxes that can be soldered directly to printed circuits; input voltages are 12, 15 or 24V and output voltages 200V to 4kV with maximum power of 4W depending on the model.
External potentiometer or analogue input signal voltage programming can set the voltage.
A unique feature is that the boxes can be mounted vertically or flat.
The SDS converters are used in fields such as electron microscopy using photoelectronic detectors (eg, photomultiplier tubes), semiconductor detectors (eg, avalanche photodiodes) or light intensification systems (eg, multi-channel plates).
They can be supplied in standard versions or customised in original equipment manufacturing (OEM) for advanced research and industrial applications.
SDS also develops in parallel larger modules that deliver rapid high voltage pulses for laser systems, mass spectroscopy, and beam deviation.
These modules are used in a broad range of applications where a voltage of several kV must be commutated in a very short time.
The boxes contain their own high stability high voltage generator and can be used to connect numerous devices with high capacitive loads at high impedance, especially in research applications.
SDS also supplies medical equipment maintenance companies with high voltage supply units previously mounted on nuclear medicine equipment manufactured by Sopha Medical Vision International (SMVI).
For operation in remote mode, the equipment designed and manufactured by SDS can incorporate RS232/RS485 serial interfaces or a GPIB link supporting the SCPI command protocol, or be fitted with fieldbus adaptors for protocols as varied as Profibus-DP V0 and V1, Canopen, Devicenet, ethernet 10Mbits, fast ethernet 10/100Mbits, Interbus, Lonworks or I2C.
