Friday, December 5, 2025

Power Supply For Defense And Aerospace Use

Power stages remain a common failure point in defense and aerospace systems. What if one module could remove that risk without a redesign?

Gaia Converter’s New GRD-50A-M Series
Gaia Converter’s New GRD-50A-M Series

When we build electronics for defense or aerospace platforms, our biggest problem is not the logic or the RF — it is keeping the power stage alive in a harsh, noisy, mission-critical environment. We need isolation, we need protection, and we need something that does not force us to stack multiple blocks just to meet basic compliance.

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That is what the GRD 50A M series from Gaia Converter solves. Instead of using separate converters, filters, and isolated stages, this family packs the required protection and conversion into one rugged 500 watt module that is already aligned with COTS expectations. That means fewer parts to qualify, less wiring, and fewer unknowns in the failure chain.

We can drop it into land vehicles, avionics racks, shipboard hardware, high power lighting, or directed energy payloads without worrying about it breaking under vibration or transients. The 1500 Vdc primary to secondary isolation and 500 Vdc chassis isolation remove cross fault risk, which is a common failure driver in mixed voltage defense electronics.

Because programs differ, the series ships in multiple variants: B board only, V coated, and P parallel. That lets us pick what fits the integration strategy without redesigning the environment around the supply.

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Key features and benefits:

  • Meets MIL-STD-1275, MIL-STD-704, and MIL-STD-461
  • Output power up to 500 W with 12 V, 15 V, 24 V, 28 V, or 48 V options
  • Built-in protection for overload, reverse polarity, and transients up to 100 Vdc
  • Efficiency up to 89% with protection for short circuit (hiccup mode), overvoltage, and overtemperature
  • Compact size: 10″ x 2.75″ x 0.9″ (255 x 70 x 24.25 mm)
  • Wide temperature operation: −40 °C to +85 °C at baseplate and −40 °C to +105 °C at converter case
Nidhi Agarwal
Nidhi Agarwal
Nidhi Agarwal is a Senior Technology Journalist at EFY with a deep interest in embedded systems, development boards and IoT cloud solutions.

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