Pasternack Introduces New RF Combiners Operating Up to 6 GHz

2-Way and 4-Way Broadband Power Combiners Announced by Pasternack

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Dec 17, 2014, 07:00 ET

IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 17, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Pasternack Enterprises, Inc., a leading manufacturer and supplier of RF, microwave and millimeter wave products, introduces a completely new line of broadband RF power combiners. The broad bandwidth of these new combiners makes them the perfect complement to systems using components such as power amplifiers, antenna feeds, attenuators and switches. A special area of usage for these power combiners is in combining individual power amplifiers together into a large power block in an amplifier system.

The new RF power combiners from Pasternack are offered in the popular 2-way and 4-way configurations and deliver high power up to 600 Watts and operate over a broad temperature range between 55°C to 85°C, expanding the versatility of this product offering to a wide range of military and commercial applications. Pasternack's broadband RF combiners offer frequency ranges from 20 MHz to 6 GHz, low insertion loss from 0.35 dB to 1 dB and low VSWR up to 1.30:1. Other features of these power combiners include excellent amplitude and phase balance, high power handling, good isolation levels and rugged packaging.

RF power combiners are devices that combine or sum a number of RF input signals to a common output, while maintaining the characteristic impedance of the inputs. As systems become more complex, choosing how best to combine two or more RF signals has become a far more difficult question to answer, especially when high power and wide bandwidth are involved. Pasternack's RF combiners offer low loss and low VSWR while providing competitive port-to-port isolation through the use of high power resistive components. These RF signal combiners are designed to be screw-down mounted to a heatsink.

"With the addition of our new power combiners, we continue to expand our offering of solutions necessary to be our customers' one-stop-shop for the complete component requirements of the RF system," says Michael Rachlin, Director of Product Management at Pasternack.

All of the new broadband, high power RF power combiners are in-stock and available to ship from Pasternack today. For detailed specs on these products, please visit http://www.pasternack.com/pages/Featured_Products/rf-power-combiners.htm.

About Pasternack

A leader in RF products since 1972, Pasternack is an ISO 9001:2008 certified manufacturer and supplier that offers the industry's largest selection of passive and active RF, microwave and millimeter wave products available for same-day shipping.

The performance of the new Pasternack's high power combiners is summarized in the below table:

Part Number	Frequency (MHz)	Power Average (W)	VSWR (Max)	Amplitude Balance (±dB)	Phase Balance (±dB)	Insertion Loss (dB, Max)	Isolation (dB, min)	N-Way
PE20S0001	20 - 1000	100	1.30:1.0	±0.3	±5°	0.6	15	2
PE20S0002	20 - 1000	200	1.30:1.0	±0.25	±5°	0.75	> 12 dB 20 – 125 MHz > 15 dB 125 -1000 MHz	4
PE20S0003	20 - 1000	300	1.25:1.0	±0.25	±5°	0.75	> 12 dB 20 – 125 MHz > 15 dB 125 -1000 MHz	4
PE20S0004	20 - 1000	500	1.30:1.0	±0.2	±5°	0.8	10	2
PE20S0005	80 - 1000	200	1.30:1.0	±0.25	±5°	0.75	> 12 dB 80 – 125 MHz > 13 dB 125 -1000 MHz	4
PE20S0006	80 - 1000	500	1.30:1.0	±0.25	±5°	0.75	> 12 dB 20 – 125 MHz > 15 dB 125 -1000 MHz	4
PE20S0007	500 - 2500	200	1.30:1.0	±0.2	±5°	0.4	13	4
PE20S0008	500 - 2500	100	1.30:1.0	±0.25	±5°	0.6	12	4
PE20S0009	800 - 2500	600	1.30:1.0	±0.2	±5°	0.6	6	4
PE20S0010	800 - 2500	800	1.30:1.0	±0.2	±5°	0.6	7.5	2
PE20S0011	800 - 2500	600	1.30:1.0	±0.2	±5°	0.6	7.5	2
PE20S0012	800 - 4200	200	1.30:1.0	±0.25	±5°	1.0	10	2
PE20S0013	800 - 4200	200	1.30:1.0	±0.25	±5°	1.0	8	4
PE20S0014	1000 - 6000	100	1.50:1.0	±0.3	±6°	0.85	6	4
PE20S0015	2000 - 6000	100	1.30:1.0	±0.25	±5°	0.35	12	2
PE20S0016	2000 - 6000	100	1.30:1.0	±0.25	±5°	0.8	10	4
PE20S0017	2000 - 6000	400	1.30:1.0	±0.3	±5°	0.8	-	4