Single Piston Low Cost Control Electronics
(SPLCCE)
Features
Fully rad hard up to 100 krad
Power levels up to 180 W – 10 W for active balancer
Selected on NASA missions
TRL 9 design
Radiation-hardened, space-qualified cryocooler electronics with active balancer control.
Iris Technology’s SPLCCE is a Single Piston, Low-Cost Cryocooler Electronics package that is radiation-hardened and space-qualified.
The electronics were specifically adapted from our LCCE and LCCE-2 designs to operate the Ametek/Sunpower line of single-piston cryocoolers such as the MT, CT, and GT models.
In addition to basic cryocooler control functionality, the SPLCCE provides active balancer control with 2 motor outputs; the primary output for the main cryocooler motor and the second output for the optional Active Balancer motor that Sunpower offers.
The SPLCCE also has an accelerometer input to measure exported vibration from the cryocooler and computes and applies canceling waveforms to the balancer motor.
Active Vibration Cancellation (AVC) is highly effective at reducing exported vibration to barely measurable levels across 3 harmonics products.
The electronics set is fully developed and flown, giving it a Readiness Level 9 (TRL).
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