- Editor's
Comment Perspective on current and upcoming issues, by
Horace B. Barks, Editor and Publisher This month - Is the
Internet dumbing down society with copyright violations? ...
About the barks.com website ... Next month's EA ...
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- Let's
Solve Your Problem The
longest-running and one of our most popular features, Let's
Solve Your Problem answers real questions posed by people
in plants and service shops around the U.S. and abroad.
Selected Q&A's from this column are available in our
popular Let's Solve Your
Problem books. Does turn tape count as part of
the ground wall? ... The meanting of percent generator
impedance ... Can a loose rotor fit be tightened? ... A P.I.
value of 1.0 isn't necessarily bad ... Do ASD motors need
higher insulation resistance? Edited by the EA
Staff
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- Letters
This month's letters feature mail from Gersil N. Kay,
Conservation Lighting International Ltd., Philadelphia, who
would like to see standards for standards.
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- Trade
associations and professional societies News of non-profit
organizations serving the electrical mechanical industries.
This month -Manufacturers outraged by OSHA's new
ergonomic rules ... Electronic manufacturers seek a lead
alternative ... Hackers are a growing threat to power plants
... Society of Manufacturing Engineers Education Foundation
has $260,000 in scholarships and fellowships for students
... People featured include Mark Gabrile from the
Electric Power Research Institute ... Jeff Forker, Kenneth
Hickman and Gary Tapella, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration
Institute... Glenn Hannegan Jr. from the Refrigeration
Service Engineers Society ... and more
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- Business
Briefs Business news and announcements, including
financial briefs, certification achievements, and
distribution news. This month - Emerson Electric forms
commercial motor unit ... Genset maker Cummins Power Systems
enters rental market ... Cooper Industries acquires light
fixture manufacture Shaper Lighting ... New England laser
maker A-B lasers, Inc., purchases Rofin-Sinar Marking
Systems ... SKF U.S.A. buys British instrument maker
Diagnostic Instruments Ltd. ... Bearing maker
Kingsbury Inc., selects RTS Corporation as representative to
northeastern OEM customers ... Waukesha Electric Systems
announces $20 million expansion ... Baldor Electric reports
increase in sales ... King Safety Products expands world
headquarters research center in O'Fallon, Missouri... and more
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- Training
Briefs Announcements of workshops, seminars and
instructional materials, and our Training Index, listing
program topics featured in Training Briefs in the past
year - This month: Coupling
alignment ... Management ... Power Distribution ...
Adhesives ... Infrared thermography ... Motor Repair ... an
index to training topics featured in EA during the past five
years ... and more
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- Accounting
for management This month -Improving profits - Determining
which products and services are profitable requires
accumulation and analysis of certain data By
Wiliam H. Wiersema, CPA, EA Contributing Editor.
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- Safety
and health in the workplace This month -Vitamins balance
modern eating habits - A good multi-vitamin a day - rather
than an apple - may be what you need to keep the doctor
away By Richard B.
Elsberry, EA Contributing Editor. Also - Online and
offline sources for nutrition information.
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- New
Books Recently published books, reviewed by our editors. See
also Books for the Plant and Shop from Barks
Books, including titles from the editors of Electrical
Apparatus.
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- Standards
briefs This month - American National Standards Institute
(ANSI) proposes adoption of three electrical equipment
standards ... International Electrotechnical Commission in
search of global harmony ... Final approvals announced by
ANSI for metal cable tra systems, dry type general purpose
distribution and power transformers, standard power cable
ampacity tables, temperature limits, standard terminal
markings and connections, and maximum winding temperature
rise in liquid filled transformers ... two new electrical
standards (for fire resistive cables and for electrical
resistance heat tracing) from Underwriters Laboratories... Edited
by the Electrical Apparatus staff.
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- Names
and Faces This month - Sourosh Adib and Jeff Wendorf from
L&S Electric ...Patrick Davin and Allan Mellows from Cooper
Crouse-Hinds ... Scott Montross from U. S. Samica .. Ken
McFraland from Marinco Industrial Group ... Sean Foster and
Richard Bartnett, Acme Electric Corp's Power Distribution
Products Division ... Edited by Kevin Jones.
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- Deaths
This month, Albert Lewis, the founder of Lewis Electric
Motor, Eureka, Missouri.
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- Calendar
Briefs - Upcoming trade shows, symposia, and events, from
January through October 2001 ... Edited
by Kevin Jones.
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- Literature
Announcements of guides, catalogs, brochures, product
specifications and other literature. This issue - Electric
motor and drive product lines from WED Electric Motors
Corp..... short form instrumentation product handbook from
Action Instruments ... Sealed life truck batteries and
battery chargers from GNB Technologies ... consumable
military and agency qualifications guide and a brochure on
storing and drying of welding electrodes from the Lincoln
Electric Company ...electrical wiring devices catalog from
Marinco Industrial Group ... solid state relay selection
poster from HB Controls .. speed reducers from Stober
Drives, Inc., ... Test and measurements products from B&K
Precision Corp ... A-C power sources and frequency
converters from Pacific Power Source ... Edison protective
relays from Cooper Power Systems... Willson safety eyewear
... inverter duty motors from Lincoln Motors ... variable
transformers and electrical connectors from Superior
Electric ... SPD electrical protection handbook from Cooper
Bussman ... Coupling Handbook from the Marketing Department
at Lovejoy, Inc. ... and more
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- Product
briefs Announcements of controls, interconnections,
measuring equipment, drivers and inverters, power
transmission brakes, test instruments ...
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-
Trilingual
summary For our international readers, each month one
featured topic is presented in French, Spanish and German.
This month's topic is "Checking and correction rotor
unbalance" "Schwingungs-aufnehmer
für Auswuchtmaschinen
... Capteurs de vibration pour les machines á èquilibrer ...
Captadores de Vibración para la Máquina Compensadora
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- Cy's
Super Service, Motorhead
and Generatorhead Comic strips featuring characters from
our favorite cartoonists.
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- Direct
and Current Breaking news of interest to the industry,
from The Editors of Electrical Apparatus. This issue -
Only 27% of small businesses have websites ... global wire
and able ... aging wiring systems ... "investment
opportunities" scams ... Small business contributions to the
economy ... shipments for central A-C and heat pumps ...
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- Advertising
Index An easy to use reference to the advertisements in
Electrical Apparatus magazine.
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- Say
It Right By Richard L. Nailen, P.E.,
Contributing Editor. This month ... Be specific about
"noise level" - because "noise" is such a subjective
quality, we need to use standard units when discussing it
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- Utility
Briefs - News of utility and power companies
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- Electrical
manager A potpourri of news and features, selected
and edited for maintenance and service managers. This
month -Educating employees about Social Security ...
Select a service shop before your motors fail ... "Wreckless
driving" - avoiding the big rigs ...
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- EMBR
update - changes to the Electromechanical
Bench Reference 2001, the annual buyers' guide that
readers received with their December 2000 Electrical
Apparatus. Since the directory was published,
corrections and additions appear in subsequent issues of the
magazine.
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- Shop
Equipment Showcase - A special section devoted to
equipment and materials used in apparatus service and
repair.
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