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APELC was founded in 1998, rooted in the CEO’s graduate school innovations. We understand the challenges faced by universities in accessing reliable and user-friendly research equipment [...]

Recently, APELC had the pleasure to install one of our 2m RS105 HEMP simulators at the Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific in San Diego. NIWC states their mission as “Conduct [...]

If you have been following the news lately, you might have seen some rather alarming headlines like, “Russia Could Put a Nuclear Weapon Into Orbit This Year” [1] or “US Tells Allies Russia May [...]

2023 Year in Review LANL contract APELC took a major step ahead in 2023 from being an R&D-oriented pulse power firm, to a full production manufacturer. Thanks in large part to the NNSA’s [...]

Austin, Texas – January 8, 2024 – APELC, a leader in high-voltage and pulsed power solutions, announces a significant contract with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to produce up to [...]

At APELC, we specialize in Marx Generators and other pulsed power systems. These systems are characterized by their ability to generate high-voltage/high peak-power pulses of electrical energy [...]

After our last blog entry, “5 Things to Know About Pulse Power” in which we covered some of the origins of pulse power, I received some feedback from the corner office. Our CEO brought up a few [...]

1) What is Pulse Power? Pulse power, also known as “pulsed power”, is the compression of electrical energy in both time and space with the goal of delivering fast, intense pulses of energy to a [...]

In November of 2020, The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) published a publicly-available document titled, “High-Altitude Electromagnetic Pulse Hardening Pilot Projects: Status and Future [...]

In the realm of electrical engineering, pulsed power systems have gained prominence for their ability to generate fast-transients at high-voltages and currents. These systems find applications in [...]