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October 2006 Columns and Departments
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Items
in columns and departments from the October 2006 issue, Vol.
59, no. 10, © 2006 Barks
Publications, Inc. See also
October 2006 Table of Contents and
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- Editor's Comment
Perspective on current and upcoming issues... by Horace
B. Barks, Executive Editor
In this
issue: We want to cover trade shows and you can help ...
Rising costs of publishing, including advertising... Now
there's an easy way to
check 2007 EMBR
listings...
...Exhibitors at EASA 2006 ...
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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.
Edited by the EA staff
In this issue: Why the non-ferrous
coil support rings? ... How to calculate losses from
efficiency?...Major failure cause: bearings or insulation?
... What's the cost of unbalanced voltage? ... How do you
define 'swinging ground'? ... Extra damper bars in
synchronous rotor ... Dealing with forces on motor hold-down
bolts ... Dropping a motor: what damage to look for ...
You
are invited to send questions to this department. Your
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- Letters
Comments and questions from readers of Electrical Apparatus
In this issue - Kind words from Elmer Rolloff Jr., Rolloffs
Electric, New Ulm, Minnesota ... Interconnecting CT's from
Dean Lassiter, State Farm Insurance Companies, Bloomington,
Illinois ... Skin Effect from N. E. Nilsson, Columbiana,
Ohio
Electrical
Apparatus invites letters, 250 words maximum. All letters,
including e-mail, must include name, company, title or
position, phone number, city, state or province, and country.
We may edit your letter for clarity and space.— Editor
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EA reader at ease
... Stories featuring unusual or interesting avocational
interests of our readers.
In this issue - Gary Gooding, design and manufacturing
engineer for National Electric Coil, loves to ride bikes.
By Joseph S. Hoff, EA Special Features Editor
Do you know someone working in the electrical
aftermarket with a hobby or interest that could be featured
in "EA reader at ease"? Tell us who they are, what they do,
and how we can contact them to find out more about their
special passions. Send your suggestions to Electrical
Apparatus, 400 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 900, Chicago, III.
60611; (312) 321-9440; Fax (312) 321-1288; e-mail
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 Business and financial briefs News of expansions,
relocations, annual reports, and more, about companies
serving the electrical mechanical industries In
this issue --Acutant Corp acquires Actown Electrocoil ..
Johnstone Supply reaches $1billion milestone .. Safety
recognition for two A. O. Smith plants ... Baldor completes
one plant, expands another .. Heyco expands distribution
into India .. Fluid control maker opens Netherlands plant ..
GE and partner buy GELcore LLC of Cleveland ... Alternative
energy center on Long Island is established at Stony Brook
University ... A.O. Smith reports big increases in
second-quarter earnings ... Regal Beloit Corp reports 81%
increase in sales for second quarter...American Sensor
Technologies of Mount Olive NJ is one of its states 50
fastest growing technology companies (pictured, right) ... Edited by Kevin Jones
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- Calendar
Briefs - Upcoming trade shows, symposia, and events... Edited by
the EA staff
In this issue -
conferences, meetings, conventions and more, from October 2006
through June 2007.. Edited by the
EA staff
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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
In this issue: Thermal operation in electric motors,
from The Motor and Motion Association,
www.smma.org ... Motor Diagnostics,
from All-Test Pro LLC,
www.alltestpro.com ... Batteries and UPS's from Ametek
Solidstate Controls,
www.solidstatecontrolsinc.com ...Pump maintenance from
Pumping Machinery LLC,
www.pumpingmachinery.com ... Servomotors, from
Quality Solutions Co.,
www.motor-solutions.com ... Motor/generator maintenance,
from Jarsco Engineering Corp, EPRI Power Generation and TECO-Westinghouse,
and Iris Power Engineering (
www.irispower.com)
... Corrosion testing, from ASTM International,
www.astm.org ... Power
Quality, from PowerCET Corp,
www.powercet.com/download/courscat.pdf ... Motor & drive
application, from Baldor Electric,
www.baldor.com ...
Motor service and repair, from the Electrical Apparatus
Service Association,
www.easa.com ... Drives and Controls, from Bosch Rexroth
Corp.,
www.boschrexroth-us.com ... High voltage maintenance,
from Ox Creek Energy,
www.corona-technology-course.com ... Professional
certification from the Association for Facilities
Engineering, www.afe.org
... Infrared thermography, from the Electrical Apparatus
Service Association,
www.easa.org .. Edited
by the EA staff
Producers of workshops, seminars, and instructional
materials are encouraged to mail announcements to Training
Briefs Editor, Electrical Apparatus. There is no charge.
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Trilingual
summary For our international readers, each month one
featured topic is presented in French, Spanish and German.
In this issue -Understanding Overpotential Testing -
Apply and observe - carefully! (read an online English summary)
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 New
Books
- Recently published books, reviewed by our editors. See
our Book Review webpage, and also Books for the Plant and Shop from Barks
Books, including titles from the editors of Electrical
Apparatus, including our latest new book, Let's
Solve Your Problem - Volume III.
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 In this
issue -
Electric Relays: Principles and Applications, by
S. Dr. V. Gurevich, CRC Press ...
The Electronics Handbook, by J. C. Whitaker, CRC
Press... and
Energy Efficient Electric Motors, by Ali Emadi, CRC
Press
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Accounting
for management In this issue - The need to budget:
Why small companies stand to benefit from the practice just
as large companies do.
By William H. Wiersema,
CPA, EA Contributing Editor and author of Steps
to a Successful Service Shop.
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 Literature
- In this issue, a general catalog from Extech Instruments
... Increase safety terminal enclosures and systems from
Adalet .. Adhesives and protective coatings from Devcon and
Permatex .. welding wire products and the GMAW Welding Guide
from Lincoln Electric ... a tape selection swatchbook from
DeWAL Industries ... enclosure technology training program
from Stahlin Non-Metalic Enclosures (see photo, right of
Stahlin's enclosure technology "Boot Camp")... Replacement
parts for Cummins CT/CTA/CTTA engines from Interstate-McBee,
LLC .. protective gloves and accessories from
KleenGuard ... industrial electric motors from Leeson
Electric... Edited by the EA
Staff
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Names
and Faces
... News and photos of industry people on the move and in
the news. In this issue -Thomas Montgomery of
Guarantee Electrical Co (pictured) ... Art Anderson, George
Stratton, and Kevin Miller of the Electrical Apparatus
Service Association ... Paul Jones (pictured) and Terry
Colvin of Regal Beloit ... Daniel Beaudet of ABB Automation
Products ... Stephen Colvin (pictured), Kent Walker and Ann
Sicard (pictured) of Ferraz Shawmut ... Jim Adcox of
Johnstone Supply, Inc. .. Rick Busch of John C. Dolph Co ...
Laurence Gration of the Association for Facilities
Engineering ...Edited by the EA Staff
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Product Briefs - Photos and announcements of new products
In this issue - Adhesives & sealants from Epoxies, Etc. ...
Circuit Interrupters from Cooper Bussman ... Drives &
inverters from ABB Inc and ElectroStatic Technology ...
Enclosures from Vortec/ITW and Stahlin ... Lighting from EYE
Lighting International of North America, Inc. ...
Interconnections from Thomas & Betts, EFC International, and
Pulizzi Engineering ... Measuring equipment from Mikron
Infrared, Flir and Falcon Electcric ... a desoldering braid
dispensing gun from Xuron Corp .. control transformers from
Foster Transformer .. paperless electronic chart recorder
from Chromalox .. bird repellant compound from BirdX ..
Diesel fueled gensets from Caterpillar ... Motors &
Gearmotors from Baldor ... Power quality analyzer from
Falcon Electric .. Safety products from Meltric, Magid Glove
and Safety and Klaxon ... Software from BJM Corp and Magsoft
Corp .. Switching devices from Tyco, Electroswitch, and
Contrinex ... Tools from the Eraser Co., Klein Tools,
LEDtronics, Ridge, Bondhus, Wera Tools, Streamlight,
Eagelville, Nakita U.S.A., Wright Tool, Xuron Corp., and
Bondus Corp...Edited by the EA Staff.
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verify product claims.
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Direct
and Current Breaking news of interest to the industry,
from The Editors of Electrical Apparatus. In this issue
- Postal service ends year in the black ... labor costs rise
but efficiency's down ... the largest electronics recall ...
trade show revenues grow ...America's love affair with
television continues ... Are high school graduates ready to
work?
By the Editors
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Deaths
- Obituaries
of industry people. In this issue - Larry Watford, owner of
South Carolina's Central Electric and Rewinding.
Comic
strips featuring characters from our favorite cartoonists