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Clarostat
Clarostat is the leading US manufacturer of panel-mount potentiometers (pots) and is a quality US manufacturer of custom photoelectric (industrial) and optical switch (commercial) solutions. As a pioneer of wirewound and thick-film conductive plastic pots, Clarostat has an extensive array of standard, modular, and customized variable resistors. Clarostat offers a full selection of resistive elements in its potentiometer lines using conductive plastic, cermet, hot-molded carbon, and wirewound resistive elements.
Clarostat was acquired by Honeywell in 2002 when they purchases Invensys’ Sensor System group. Honeywell, a major international supplier of high technology microwave and electronic equipment to the space industry, designs and manufactures ultra reliable RF switching solutions. Ferrite-based switches can be used to implement numerous elements of RF front-end subsystems on Earth observation and telecommunications satellites, including duplexers, switch matrices, receiver protection, beam hopping, beam forming, and redundancy switching.
Ferrites are ceramic compounds that consist of a mixed oxide of iron and one or more other metals. They have long been used to protect sensitive electronic equipment from conductive transients. Ferrites offer a simple, but effective, way of protecting items that must remain plugged in, such as solar panels, charge controllers, generators, computers, or amateur radios. They can even be used on some automobile wiring. They are very simple to use. Simply click them around the cable feeding the sensitive item. That's it!
Honeywell is recognized as a leader in variable differential transformer design and fabrication. The solution provides alternating current (AC) output voltage directly proportional to the angular displacement of its input shaft.
The benefits of Honeywell ferrite switches include:
- Reliable Solid State Technology
- Fast Switching / No moving parts
- Hot Switching / Switching with RF power present
- Latching / No holding current
- Low Power Consumption
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