Solid-state power systems for infrastructure that cannot stop.
Available electrical power is becoming an infrastructure constraint: data centers wait in interconnection queues, remote sites depend on fuel logistics, and critical distributed assets incur higher costs for continuity than for the energy itself. VENDOR is developing VENDOR.Max — a local solid-state power system for this class of infrastructure. Physical prototypes have been built and operated; the records are published below.
VENDOR.Max in thirty seconds
VENDOR.Max is a solid-state nonlinear electrodynamic system for local power supply to infrastructure, operating in a controlled discharge-resonant regime. A brief initiation creates the working state: first, charge already accumulated is redistributed over a shorter time; then a resonant circuit repeatedly organizes the motion of existing carriers and, through the field, forms a directed flow on the galvanically separated side. The local gain arises not from the creation of new charge, but from a change in how existing charge is organized: first through compression of the transfer time of the same portion of charge, then through repeated resonant circulation and field-mediated organization of motion. Rectification, an internal DC architecture and power conversion carry the formed flow to a regulated user output; the power there is set by the quantity of charge passing through the port per unit of time and by the energy per unit of charge. Part of the flow returns through the regime branch to the input of the working core and restores the excitation conditions for the next cycle — not by returning the full user power, but by sustaining the working state of the system. The system operates in a controlled regime and adapts to load changes. In the standard BBMS revision, startup, battery energy exchange and the regime branch reside inside the enclosure; the architecture includes no external power-input port, either during startup or operation. Physical prototypes have been built and operated; the next stage of the program is independent measurement of the complete unit at its external boundary.
Previous revision was built and operated · current revision is being rebuilt ahead of independent validation.
System statusWhat if you kept the flywheel principle — and removed the flywheel itself?
Mechanics excels at force. Electronics excels at timing.
The physical language of the mechanism
Across electrical systems, the final result is the same: organized motion of local charge carriers in the user circuit. The rate of that motion is described by current, and the energy transferred per unit charge by voltage; together they determine power, while their action over time determines the energy delivered. The engineering task of VENDOR was to organize this motion through the field and create a working state maintained by the return regime branch: it restores the excitation conditions rather than returning the user power.
\[ P=\frac{dE}{dt}=U\frac{dQ}{dt} \] \[ \frac{\mathrm{C}}{\mathrm{s}} \times \frac{\mathrm{J}}{\mathrm{C}} = \mathrm{W} \]The field carries energy and does work on local charge carriers. At a properly defined electrical port, voltage sets the energy transferred per unit charge. Evaluated together with the rate of charge transfer at that port, these quantities give the rate of energy transfer — power.
A controlled working state
VENDOR.Max operates as a controlled system of states. The working regime adapts to load changes while preserving the required state of the system.
Three levels of one system
| Block frames | Frame 1 | Frame 0 |
|---|---|---|
| Local transformations | Working core | Complete unit |
| Ports, states, field transitions | All crossings of the working-core boundary | User output and all exchange with the environment |
| How does a local transformation happen? | What are the input and output conditions of the working core? | What does the unit show as a whole? |
In the standard BBMS revision, the startup battery, battery energy exchange, the regime branch and supervision reside inside Frame 0 — the architecture includes no external power-input port, either during startup or operation. The working input exists at Frame 1, inside the unit.
In the laboratory configuration, an external startup source crosses the Frame 0 boundary only during startup and is then physically disconnected.
So the question of the core’s input conditions belongs to Frame 1, and the question of the complete unit’s exchange with the environment belongs to Frame 0.
How this engineering line took shape in hardware
Several hardware revisions of VENDOR.Max were built and operated with real electrical loads. The laboratory records show the evolution of the design, startup, the operation of connected electrical loads and — in configurations using an external startup source — an experiment in which the external startup battery was physically disconnected after startup. Following the laboratory relocation, VENDOR is rebuilding the prototype on a new component base; the rebuild is documented in the news.
Known physical principles. A patented engineering development.
- Existing engineering
- Known limitation
- Patented change
- Implementation know-how
The VENDOR patent continues an existing engineering line and resolves a specific limitation of the preceding architecture. The protected change is defined in an independent claim of a patent granted following examination.
The patent defines the protected solution. The working implementation also depends on engineering know-how. VENDOR publishes the patent basis, the engineering logic of the system, the charge model, the measurement program and prototype records. The topology required to reproduce the system, implementation parameters and control regimes are subject to controlled engineering disclosure and are provided to qualified parties to the extent required for the specific task.
The next result is an independent measurement of the unit
The working architecture is already an engineering result of the project. The next stage gives that result independent metrological status.
An independent party measures the energy delivered to an external load, records the unit’s external connections, and establishes a proven upper bound on the possible contribution of internal energy stores. If the confirmed energy delivered to the load meets the predefined criterion relative to that bound, the result is recorded by the independent party.
The criterion is formulated in advance: the confirmed energy delivered to the load must exceed the proven upper bound on the possible contribution of internal stores, with measurement uncertainty taken into account.
None of this requires disclosure of the internal circuitry or operating parameters of VENDOR.Max.
Where this architecture creates infrastructure value
Telecom infrastructure
A remote site carries not only the cost of electricity but the cost of fuel delivery, maintenance, losses and downtime. The more remote the site, the smaller the share of energy itself in the full cost of continuity.
Telecom tower powerAI and edge infrastructure
The limiting factor becomes available electrical power and the interconnection timeline rather than the price of computing hardware. A local power layer can reduce the dependence of the deployment schedule on grid availability.
AI edge infrastructureUtilities and water operations
Value is defined not by selling a kilowatt-hour but by preventing the loss of function of a critical distributed asset: substation auxiliary power, pumping stations, water treatment nodes.
Utility and water operationsAn independently confirmed metrological result opens the next industrial stage: integration, endurance qualification of an industrial configuration, certification and validation of the economics of each specific application.
What is happening now and where to go deeper
The team that created the prototype leads its rebuild, the independent verification program and the preparation for the industrial stage.
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