Our equipment and facilities change to accomodate our current production and development needs, but here are some of our mainstays.
Facilities
Lewiston, Minnesota
- 8 acre site with 12,500ft2 main building
- 800 amps 208V / 3 phase
- 20' x 18' overhead doors
- Overhead crane service
- Management, sales, engineering, and machine shop
- Pickup truck, 1 ton, 4x4, crew cab with trailers to 20' / 7 ton
Winona, Minnesota
- Field test site with good wind and solar resources
- Heavy equipment / large material storage and staging
- Towers from 30' to 120'
- 37.5 kW grid tied solar to offset APRS World's energy usage
- ~20kW off grid solar for testing
- Portable training tower
Fairbanks, Alaska
- Field office with fenced laydown yard
- Container based buildings
- Off-grid solar / wind power system with large battery
- 3/4 ton 4x4 crew cab pickup truck
- All tools, welders, generators, are sized for transportation with Robinson R44 helicopter
Fremont, Minnesota
- Wind test site with 120' tower / 12kW wind turbine
Spanish Fork, Utah
- Wind test site with 70' tower
Engineering
- Soldidworks
- DC power supplies to 10kW
- DC programmable loads
- Tektronic osciloscopes
- Fluke multimeters to 6.5 digits
- Fluke voltage calibrations to 1100 volts DC
- Agilent LCR
- Fluke and Druck multi process calibrators
Electronics Assembly
Surface Mount
- Pick and place machines
- Manual and automatic screen printers
- Vapor phase reflow
- Reflow with nitrogen atmosphere
Through Hole
- Lead free / no clean wave solder
Hand / Re-work
- IPC J-std certified operators
- Metcal / Pace / Weller solder / desoldering / hot air stations
Wire processing
- CNC cut and stripping of 6 AWG and smaller wires
- Spool handling for 8' and smaller spools
- Hydraulic crimping for 4/0 and smaller
- Pneumatic crimping
- Lead free solder pots
Machine and Fabrication Shop
Machine Shop
- Mazak VC-500N 4 axis CNC mill
- Mazak QT-250MSY CNC lathe with milling, sub-spindle, and y-axis
- Mazak QT-15 CNC lathe
- Kaeser screw air compressor and drier
- 2 x IR piston air compressor
- 2 x engine lathe
- CNC Automation 3 axis CNC knee mill
Welding
- Lincoln 350 amp AC / DC TIG welder
- Miller Dynasty 210 TIG welder
- 2 x Miller Millermatic 252 300 amp MIG welder
- Miller Bobcat 250EFI
- Miller Millermatic 180
- Miller Syncrowave SD180
- Portable bore welding and cutting rig
Cutting
- DoALL S-320CNC CNC band saw
- 5' x 10' CNC plasma table with 150 amp high definition power source
- Hypertherm 45XP with handheld torch
- Ridgid pipe treader
Forming
- Accurpress 60 ton CNC press brake with Wila segment tooling
- Diacro press brake
- Hydraulic tube benders to 4.5" OD
- Hydraulic presses to 50 ton
- Arbor presses to 7 ton
Wood
- Weeke large format CNC multi-axis router
- SawStop table saw
- Panel saw
- Planer, shaper, drill presses, etc
Material Handing and Heavy Equipment
Telehandlers
- Genie GTH-1056 10k lbs / 56ft reach
- Traverse 6035 6k lbs / 35ft reach
- Genie GTH-5519 5.5k lbs / 19ft reach
Personell Lifts
- Genie S-65 boom lift
- Genie S-40 boom lift
- Genie GS-1930 scissor lift
- Work baskets up to 4' x 10'
Forklifts
- Yale 5k electric
- Nissan 5k LP
- Cat 3k electric
Skidsteers
- CAT 257B3 compact track loader, 56HP turbo diesel
- Bobcat S205 wheeled skid steer, 66HP turbo diesel
Excavating
- Takeuchi TB 180 FR 8 ton excavator with hydraulic thumb
- Chain trencher for skid steer
- Auger drive with 9" to 36" augers for skid steer
