About Calex Manufacturing Co., Inc.
Calex Mfg. Co., Inc. is a privately held company with corporate headquarters located in Concord California, 25 miles east of San Francisco. Calex employs approximately 100 people.
Calex was founded as a partnership in 1962 with the mission of developing instrumentation and power conversion products and providing world class service and quality. The company incorporated in 1963.
Products, Markets, and Applications
Calex is a middle level "high tech" company. Calex manufactures roughly 40,000 products each month consuming approximately 1,000,000 components. Calex has over 1000 different standard and custom catalog products.
DC/DC Converters
These printed circuit board mounted products are used in telecommunications, medical instruments, military and industrial control systems. Input voltages range from 3VDC to 300VDC. Output voltages range from 0.75VDC to 180VDC. Isolated and non-isolated products are available in both surface mount and through hole configurations. Calex also offers DIN Rail mount converters for process control applications. Calex offers both standard and custom solutions.
CBAM™
Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) power solutions for military and aerospace applications. The CBAM™ offering includes filtering, hold-up, power quality and load sharing modules. All modules are compatible with Calex DC/DC converter products.
Power Supplies
Encapsulated printed circuit board mounted AC to DC power supplies with power levels from 1.5 watts to 10 watts. These are low noise linear designs and are typically used in analytical instruments, medical instruments, industrial scales and weighing systems.
Voltage Multipliers
Custom encapsulated high voltage multipliers for a variety of applications including X-Ray systems and mass spectrometers. Output voltages run as high as 15kVDC with inputs up to 5kVAC peak to peak. The multipliers provide DC output power up to 25 watts. Additional power and/or voltage requirements will be reviewed by the Calex custom engineering team.
Signal Conditioners/Instrumentation Modules
Instrumentation amplifiers and other instrumentation modules for conditioning low level DC signals with special focus on strain gage signal conditioning. Calex also manufactures a variety of analog I/O modules for Micro PLCs. Input options include TC, RTD, Strain gage, 0-10V and 4-20 mA.
Manufacturing Operations
Calex has manufacturing operations located in two plants totaling approximately 40,000 square feet. One plant is located in Concord, California and is used to introduce new products and support low volume/high mix production.
The other plant located in Tijuana, Mexico is dedicated to high volume products. Both plants utilize the same production equipment and all products can be built at either facility.
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