15 years at Impulse

Craig Wright - Operations Director

Back in 1993, at the time of its incorporation, Impulse was simply a specialist electronics distributor based in Cannock. In 1997, 4 years on, I joined as a Technical Sales Engineer where I quickly found my feet in the industrial computing industry. Since then I have been proud to be part of the success and development of the company, and now as Operations Director continue to help drive Impulse to new levels in the industry.

During the past 15 years, the directors of the company have developed Impulse’s core competences to move from simple distribution into a complete solutions provider and system integrator. As well as the manufacturing and automation, transportation and defence markets, We now service industries as unique and diverse as oil and gas, security and surveillance, medical and point of care markets, each one bringing its own challenges and opportunities.

With the help and dedication of the directors, and the experienced and ever expanding team here at Impulse, we continue to be a leading UK hardware and software partner for our customers in the design, development and deployment of their industrial and embedded projects and requirements.

I am confident we will continue to go from strength to strength through our continued investment in our core competences, including our technical and project management capabilities. We will endeavour to continue to be of great assistance to all of our customers for many years to come, many of whom have been with us since the Company’s inception in 1993.

New and improved flooring in System Integration facility at Impulse

Here at Impulse, we are constantly looking to improve our services and processes in all areas, whether it is in technical, logistics, sales or marketing. As part of this endeavour, we have just fitted our System Integration facility with brand new, state of the art ESD (Electrostatic Discharge) flooring.

Our Microsoft certified engineers work tirelessly on customised embedded systems, and are extremely disciplined in keeping the working environment as clean and static free as possible. Even so, static electricity built up from walking on ordinary carpets throughout the building can affect sensitive computer components, such as the processor (CPU), hard drive, memory and expansion cards. It is sometimes hard for the technicians to keep a completely static electricity free workshop, so the installation of the new ESD flooring does all the hard work for them.

By wiping out the threat of static electricity and the problems it can cause to installations, we are completely eradicating a variable which can potentially cause hardware failure or malfunction.

This is just one aspect of our System Integration facility that makes Impulse one of the leading System Integrators in the UK. For more information please see our System Integration facility page, or call one of our experienced technical sales team on +44(0)1782 337 800.

Sealevel and Impulse in the UK

Ben Jervis – Marketing Manager, Impulse Corporation Ltd

During a highly successful relationship that has spanned over 10 years, Impulse and Sealevel have continued to develop and strengthen our brands together in the UK market.

Back in 1999, Impulse first put pen to paper on a distribution agreement which allowed us to distribute Sealevel’s innovative board level and distributed I/O products and solutions to our customers here in the UK. This was a major milestone for Impulse, as it allowed us to develop in to a market that had previously been untapped due to lack of good product and service.

Since then, Impulse has become a leading name in Europe in the design, assembly and distribution of Industrial and Embedded Computing platforms and solutions, with an experienced System Integration team, fully qualified and Microsoft certified.

Now at the cutting edge of marketing in the Industrial Computing industry, Impulse is working closely with Sealevel to increase and promote the brand image of both companies in the UK. Here at Impulse we believe that joint marketing ventures between supplier and distributor can ultimately provide the most success. Getting product exposure and brand recognition is paramount in today’s market, and using the experience and knowledge of the product and industry that Sealevel can provide, undoubtedly proves invaluable.

We are looking forward to continuing to work closely with Sealevel in promoting their products and services. Their ethos and marketing methods compliment those of Impulse, and can only bolster an already successful relationship that we are confident will span many years to come.

Leading UK Advantech Distributor

Did you know that Impulse is a leading UK Advantech distributor? Founded in 1983, Advantech has provided leadership for innovative ePlatform products and services for over 25 years. Advantech offer comprehensive system integration, hardware, software, customer-centric design services and global distribution support.

Impulse has been a leading UK Advantech distributor since 2003 and has provided customers with a comprehensive range of Advantech Single Board Computers, Panel PCs, Industrial Ethernet Switches and Distributed Analog and Digital I/O adapters.

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Panel PC Solutions at Impulse

Did you know that Impulse is a leading UK distributor and Integrator of Panel PC solutions? Since 1993, Impulse has been offering a wide range of Panel PC solutions such as Industrial Open Frame, IP65 Panel Mount and Full IP67.

Our Panel PCs have a wide range of processing capabilities with processors such as the Intel Core i7, Core2 Duo, Atom and RICS based SOC. We can off you a tailor made solution for your industrial computing requirements.

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Sealevel 8004e and 8012 available at Impulse

Impulse is pleased to announce the availability of the 8004e and 8012 digital I/O interface PCI Express cards from Sealevel Systems. The two digital I/O interface cards offer isolated input that protects the pc and other sensitive equipment from voltage spikes and ground loop currents that are commonly found in an industrial environment.  The outputs provide high quality, long life, low current (10 Watt maximum) and dry contact switch closures. Reed relays are well suited for low current applications. The relays are normally open, and will close when energized.

8004e features

• 16 optically isolated inputs
• 16 Reed relay outputs (SPST)
• Highly reliable 10VA DIP Reed relays
• 3 – 13 VDC input range
• 300V isolation
• Socketed dip resistor allows user configurable input range up to + 24V

8012 features

• 8 optically isolated inputs
• 8 Reed relay outputs (SPST)
• Highly reliable 10VA DIP Reed relays
• 3 – 13 VDC input range
• Socketed dip resistor allows user configurable input range up to + 24V
• MD1 low profile and Universal Bus (3.3V and 5V) compatible

Both boards are designed to be used with a variety of Operating Systems including Windows, Linux and DOS. The SeaI/O API Application Programming Interface included on the CD shipped with the digital I/O boards provides a variety of useful high-level function calls implemented as a Windows dynamic link library (.DLL) and as a Linux static library (.a). In addition to the API, SeaI/O includes a device driver, sample code and utilities to simplify software development.

Impulse is the exclusive UK distributor for Sealevel products. For more information on the 8004e, 2012 or any of the Sealevel digital I/O boards then contact our Technical Account team on +44 (0)1782 337 800 or email sales@impulse-corp.co.uk.

Introducing the new IMPULSE Demonstration Facility

IMPULSE have a custom-built design and industrial computer systems integration facility on site at our head office in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire and are now pleased to announce the addition of a new demonstration facility. The demonstration facility offers customers the opportunity to get hands-on with a number of industrial computer products and actually see these products demonstrated in real world scenarios.

IMPULSE are one of the UK's leading manufacturers of Industrial PC (IPC) systems with over 15 years experience helping our wide range of customers in the sourcing, designing, assembling and testing of their industrial computer products.

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