SI Manufacturing specializes in creating a variety of custom electronics tailored to the unique and often demanding needs of our customers. We work in industries where high reliability and long-lasting equipment are essential, sometimes even mission-critical, depending on the application.
In high-cost, high-stakes applications like these, inductors and reactors are essential for maintaining accurate signal processing, creating reliable power supplies, and overall improving the efficiency and reliability of the larger assembly and even the end-use product.
Inductors and Reactors: Similar Concepts but Slightly Different Functions
At their most basic, inductors store energy within their generated magnetic field, resisting current and making the efficient and safe transmission of massive voltage outputs to the small devices that we use everyday possible.
Reactors are a specialized type of inductor typically used in power transmission applications, such as the massive power grids that keep the lights on all across the country, or large power supplies for heavy-duty industrial equipment. They limit switching currents and fault currents, protecting the systems from damage and allowing for safe and accurate power transmission. However, reactors have more applications that go far beyond a power grid…
Reactors can be tuned to specific harmonic frequencies, removing unwanted high-frequency currents from the system, reducing the amount of heat produced by the equipment, and mitigating distortion associated with non-linear loads like VFDs and LEDs. And with LEDs becoming a major part of data communication and transmission, sensors, and even high-power transmission for applications that can’t use metallic conductors, specialized reactors built from precision-made components are needed to ensure these systems function safely and reliably, up to and beyond the expected service life.
SI Manufacturing: An Expert in Manufacturing End-to-End Electronic Solutions
At SI, we manufacture custom power supplies for electronics that have to meet some of the most rigorous performance, quality, and safety standards in the world, and reactors play a major role in upholding those standards.
We create a wide range of custom and specialty components, including inductors and reactors tailored to unique industrial, military, and aerospace systems, where reliability is critical. And we don’t just make individual components—we produce full box-build assemblies, power supplies, and wire harnesses, all according to customer needs so that they can get everything they need all under one roof.
If you are looking for a partner in custom specialty electronics solutions, consider partnering with SI Manufacturing! Contact us to request a quote or more information about what we have to offer.