Electrical Apparatus
The Magazine of Electrical &
Electronic Application & Maintenance

February 2001 Columns and Departments

Items in columns and departments from the February 2001 issue, Vol. 52, no. 2, (c) 2001 Barks Publications, Inc. See also February Table of Contents.

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• Editor's Comment Perspective on current and upcoming issues, by Horace B. Barks, Editor and Publisher This month - Far reaching government and corporate decisions, Direct SELL-ector card packs, and EA's Worldwide Readership.

• 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. This month's problems include: Winding hipot voltage: Is a-c or c-d better? ... Whatever happened to the motor noise test standard? ... Wave-wound versus lap-wound rotors  ... and more.

• Trade associations and professional societies News of non-profit organizations serving the electrical mechanical industries.  This month  - NEMA's election efforts, trade groups promoting 'electric motor efficiency,' the PEARL annual membership meeting, scholarships for college students, how to accommodate smokers with HVAC ventilation design, Underwriters Laboratories search for a new president, and more...

• Business Briefs This month - photos of Cooper-Bussman's Paul B. Gubany Center and Baldor Electric's Fort Smith manufacturing plant, and news from Rockwell Automation, ABB Power T&D Co, Cascade Steel Rolling Mills, Darby Electric, Graybar Electric, ThomasRegister.com, H. Power Corp, Johns Manville Filtration Division and New Pig Corp.

• Training Briefs Announcements of workshops, seminars and instructional materials, including maintenance management, safety standards, appliance motors, corona prevention, service management and power distribution.

• Accounting for management This month - How much can you afford to borrow? Including the basic elements of a financing proposal. By Wiliam H. Wiersema, CPA, EA Contributing Editor.

• Safety and health in the workplace This month - Injury data likely to drive future OSHA inspections By Richard B. Elsberry, EA Contributing Editor.

• New Books This month: Cables and global standards.  See also Books for the Plant and Shop from Barks Books, including titles from the editors of Electrical Apparatus.

• Standards briefs This month - News from the International Electrotechnical Commission, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American National Standards Institute, the National Electrical Manufacturers Association, and the International Electrotechnical Commission. Edited by the Electrical Apparatus staff. 

• Names and Faces This month - Allen Ferrari, Carl Gruenberg, Fred Maderich, Robert Ourt, Don Kane, Randall Breaux, Thomas McGuire Jr. and James Boyle.  Edited by Kevin Jones.

• Deaths - Dennis Kriewaldt, Kriewaldt Electric motors, Watertown, WI.

• EMBR Update - changes to the Electrical Mechanical Bench Reference.

• Calendar Briefs - Upcoming trade shows, symposia, and events, Edited by Kevin Jones.

• Electrical manager  A potpourri of news and features, selected and edited for maintenance and service managers. This issue - OSHA ergonomics, IRS rulings on temporary workers, who's using cel phones, and why workers quit.

• Literature Announcements of guides, catalogs, brochures, product specifications and other literature. 

• Product briefs Announcements of new controls, drives & inverters, interconnections, measuring equipment, motors, gear motors, power transmission, safety equipment, test instruments, tools, and miscellaneous products.

• Trilingual summary For our international readers, each month one featured topic is presented in French, Spanish and German. This month's topic is "A new but largely untried approach to insulation testing."  

• Classified Advertising Equipment, jobs, businesses, and services.

• Cy's Super Service, Motorhead and Generatorhead Comic strips featuring characters from our favorite cartoonists. 

• Direct and Current Breaking news of interest to the industry, from The Editors of Electrical Apparatus.

• Advertising Index  An easy to use reference to the advertisements in Electrical Apparatus magazine.