vicorpower.com AK17V1 ©2017 Vicor Corporation. All rights reserved. Submarine Combat Control Compact Rack Power Supply Small Size, Low Profile Redundancy / Power Sharing Conduction Cooled The Customer's Challenge This customer needed a power supply in a 3U VPX packaging format to address a variety of different power requirements. With the cards mounted vertically in the rack, the width of the supply was a critical design factor. This allowed more space to fit other cards in the rack, thus increasing overall system functionality. Waste heat from the power supply was an issue, and with no space for heat sinking conduction cooling was required. The supply source was a widely fluctuating 220V DC provided by the ship’s batteries. The Solution The power supply front-end used

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