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Our White High Intensity Linear Backlights offer 540 kLux output, perfect for back-lit, line-scanning applications.
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Available in pre-engineered sizes from 6” (152mm) to 96” (2438mm) in 6″ increments.
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A 3″ (75mm) length option is also available. Available intensity control provides illuminance adjustability for every 6″ increment via a 0 – 10v input.
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Available in white only. For additional wavelengths please refer to our BL138 series.
AMETEK - Engineered Systems
When a catalog product cannot completely satisfy a requirement, AMETEK Programmable Power's Solutions Business provides custom power supply systems and integrations. The solutions range from OEM integration for medical and semiconductor industries to modular avionics ATE power subsystems to turnkey solar array simulators for satellites. We also can modify power supplies to meet your application requirements.
AMETEK Programmable Power Solutions is especially skilled at providing custom power supply solutions using existing technology and previously developed integration solutions. This approach provides maximum functionality, short lead times and maximum value. Here is a brief listing of some of the types of solutions we can provide:
Catalog product modifications include:
- OEM power supplies for heating or burn-in
- AC stimulus for current transformer and circuit breaker testing
- Solar Array Simulation for satellites
- PV emulation for inverter verification
- Power racks for high energy solid state lasers
- DC power source and regenerative load for avionics actuator and motor testing
- Save your time, money and resources and let AMETEK Programmable Power Solutions solve your custom power conversion challenges for you.
Click here to take a look at this guide for more information.
More Product Information

- High Power Density DC Power Supply: Up to 15 kW in a 3U / 30 kW in a 6U chassis
- Wide Voltage Range: 0-40V up to 0-600V, in increments of 5 kW from 5 to 30 kW
- Fast Load Transient Response: Protection from undesired voltage excursions
- Low RMS and P-P Noise: Suitable for the most sensitive applications
- Parallelable DC output up to 150 kW: Expandable as your requirement grows.
- Modular Design: Upgradeable for the ultimate in investment protection
- Sequencing: Program custom waveforms
- Easy-to-read Fluorescent Display: SGI supports English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages.
- 16-bit Resolution: Optional IEEE-488.2 + RS-232C + Ethernet provides precise control
- Ethernet Control: LXI Class C compliant communication through an integrated web server
- Direct Relay Control: Control output and sense isolation relays, along with polarity relays. (Ethernet Option Only)
- Hardware Trigger: Ethernet Option Only
- 5-Year Warranty

A highly scalable, compact, secure, rugged rack server with the latest high-performance computing technologies to ensure peak performance and adaptability for a variety of ever-changing applications.
- Maximum Configurability, Flexibility, and Scalability - Quickly adjust your system’s performance to meet the constantly fluctuating demands of diverse data environments and ensure operational efficiency.
- Enhanced Compute + Connectivity - Process, analyze, store, retrieve, and transfer large amounts of actionable intelligence in seconds to improve decision-making and reduce response times.
- Ruggedized for Extremes - Tested to meet the toughest military and industrial standards to ensure the quality and reliability of our solutions within harsh and austere conditions.

- Global shutter and rolling shutter CMOS sensors available
- USB3 Vision
- High sensitivity with both front and back illuminated sensors (BSI)
- Side mounted USB connectors for ease of use in OEM solutions
- High sensitivity with pixel sizes from 2 µm to 3.45 µm
- Windows operating system and Linux SDKs (for embedded vision systems)
- 3-Year Warranty

Alvium 1800 U is a small and powerful industrial camera. Benefit from high image quality at a great price-performance ratio!
- Various sensors: Select between CMOS sensors from ON Semi and Sony, including NIR (near infrared), for your individual applications.
- Image reproduction quality: Get the best out of your lens-to-sensor combination by high-precision Alvium Sensor Alignment.
- Intelligent power management: Design low-power or even battery-powered systems.
- USB 3.1 Gen 1: Install our VIMBA Suite and get your first images easily.
- Industrial-grade hardware: Design reliable applications by the Micro-B USB 3.1 Gen 1 connector with screw locks.

- Simplify cabling between cameras and vision computer through PoE support
- Facilitate multi-camera configurations with two or four Gigabit Ethernet ports
- Trigger multiple cameras simultaneously and reliably using hardware-assisted trigger-over-Ethernet (ToE)
- Synchronize to automation devices in real-time through digital I/Os with hardware-assisted management
- Deploy pre-licensed for GigE Vision support in Aurora software, formerly Matrox Imaging Software
- Avoid the need for a separate hardware key through a license fingerprint for additional Aurora software features
- Certified for use with GigE Vision systems

Systems are complete. They plug into an outlet and are ready to go. Our standard systems are 3U, which is 5.25″ and 5U, 8.75″. Systems are available with or without IEEE-488, RS-232 and Ethernet connectivity. Amplifiers Systems are available in both Broadband and Band-Specific frequencies. We are well-known in the industry for successfully adapting our amplifiers or custom designing new solutions to suit each unique project. Please refer to our Adapted & Custom Design Solutions link to begin formulating your performance objectives and other criteria.

Highly scalable with unprecedented data transfer rates, the Hardware Isolation Platform is a dual-segment solution that combines cutting-edge security and adaptive capabilities to ensure guaranteed spacial isolation of critical data and optimize diverse workloads.
- Cross Domain Solution - Control comms and data transfer between domains of different classification levels with an FPGA hardware firewall.
- Data Isolation - Remote areas of memory create a data buffer between CPUs or virtual machines, securely storing frequently accessed data.
- Mixed Criticality - Integrate workloads with different criticalities on a single platform while prioritizing higher criticality tasks over lower ones.

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The BL2 Series provides a highly uniform and high intensity, diffuse backlight source, primarily used for creating object silhouettes of high contrast or imaging through semi-translucent materials.
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BL2 Backlights are pre-engineered for scalability, allowing for size configurations in 1″ increments up to 46″ in length and width.
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This Backlight series is offered in 5 wavelength options and can be configured with either a polarization or collimation film.
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As with all Advanced illumination products, this series is built for tailorability while still maintaining a standard lead time of one to three weeks.
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Each side of a BL2 is equiped with M6 nut channels, allowing for quick and easy mounting. This series comes with our LB111 Mounting Brackets.

AMETEK Programmable Power
Located in San Diego, California, AMETEK Programmable Power designs, manufactures, and markets precision, AC and DC programmable power supplies, electronic loads, application specific power subsystems, and compliance test solutions for customers requiring and valuing differentiated power products and services. Also part of our business is VTI Instruments, which delivers precision modular instrumentation and systems for electronic signal distribution, acquisition, and monitoring, used in the world's most demanding test applications.
AMETEK Programmable Power boasts one of the industries' broadest portfolios of programmable power products under the well-known and respected Sorensen, Elgar, and California Instruments brands. AMETEK Programmable Power’s products serve a wide range of stimulus (T&M) and process power needs in applications including semiconductor fabrication, commercial and defense ATE, oil exploration, solar array and battery string simulation, avionics, general R&D and EMC compliance testing.
VTI Instruments provides products and systems which are used to monitor and record data that characterizes the physical integrity and performance of aircraft, engines, and other large structures, as well as automate the functional testing of complex electronic systems. VTI Instruments is recognized as an industry leader with a reputation of providing reliable data, first time, every time.
With strong brands, a broad product portfolio, exceptional precision power conversion and control expertise, proven power system integration capabilities and deep applications knowledge, AMETEK Programmable Power is your source for programmable power supplies, precision data acquisition instruments, and more.
Contact Details
AMETEK Programmable Power, Inc. − San Diego
9250 Brown Deer Road, San Diego, CA 92121, USA
Phone: 858-450-0085
Fax: 858-458-0267
Email: sales.ppd@ametek.com for general inquiries
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