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Electrical Apparatus
April 2006
Featured articles
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Service & Sales Companies
- Suddenly, an owner and decision maker:
Founder's widow continues a family tradition By Jane Campbell, EA Special
Correspondent
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Insulation - Slot wedges - essential, yet often misunderstood:
How top sticks, or wedges, work. (Read a summary) By Richard L. Nailen, P.E., EA Engineering Editor
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Electromagnetic Fields - What is 'saturation'?
Everyone tries to avoid it, but what does it really mean?
By Richard L. Nailen, P.E., EA Engineering Editor
- Digital Electronics - What’s ahead in automation: Five technologies that may be at the forefront this year. By David P. Tryling, EA Electronics Editor
- Accounting - Succession and the future of your business: Those who ignore the tax implications do so at their own peril By William H. Wiersema, CPA, EA Contributing Editor
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Safety and Health - Looking back at the year in workplace safety
Federal safety and environmental agencies receive poor ratings By Richard B. Elsberry, EA Contributing Editor
Departments and Columns (for additional information or to submit material, see the Departments and Columns page.)
- Editor's Comment Carrying on a business without any interruption ... Succession and a business's future ... Arc flash - the new hot topic ... Next month - the EASA show preview .. by Horace B. Barks, Executive Editor
- Let's Solve Your Problem What's a 'medium efficiency' motor? ... Difference between primary and secondary insulation? ... Clarifying remarks on adjustable-speed drives ... What does full load really mean? ... Limitations of space heaters ... Do terminal connections need special hardware? ... How important is rotor retaining ring material? ... Can motor surfaces be a fire hazard? Edited by the EA staff
- Letters Roebel transposition, from Luceidys Marrugo Castilla, Pontificia Bolivariana University, Medellin, Columbia
- Calendar In every issue and updated on the web. See our Calendar page for current offerings.
- Trade associations, professional societies and government activities EASA warns exhibitors of convention hotel scam ... NEMA advising members of bird flu possibility ... it's that time again - call for ME papers ... Ethernet Alliance growing, adds 15 new member firms ... Future electrical wire processing technologies ... Edited by the EA staff
Business and financial briefs Darby Electric names new directors (pictured) ... Phelps Dodge magnet wire sale is finalized ... WSF Industries earns China certification ... Littelfuse buying Concord Semiconductor .. Ametek acquires utility communications firm ... Thermostat recovery is a record ... Financial briefs - Belden CDT ... Emerson Electric sees January orders rise .Edited by Kevin Jones
EA reader at ease Ken Lipinski, President and General Manager of West-Fraser in Prince George, BC, has always been a hiker.
By Joseph S. Hoff, EA Special Features Editor
Electrical Manager Rules for trade show
exhibits.
- Web briefs Center to protect workers' rights www.cpwr.com ... Hugh Hoagland - www.arcwear.com ... Quality Transformers & Electronics - www.qte.com ... Power Systems Engineering - www.powerstudies.com ... Dossert - www.dossert.com ... Northeast Electrical Testing - www.netesting.com ... Travel Oasis - www.traveloasis.com ... BC Bearing Group - www.bebearing.com ... Interpower Corp - www.interpower.com ... Hubbell Power Systems/Anderson Electric - www.hubbelpowersystems.com/powertest/catalog ...Serveron Corp - www.serveron.com ... Darnell.com, Inc. - www.darnell.com - Safe Electricity (Illinois Electric Council) - www.safeelectricity.org ... Circuit Breaker Industries (South Africa) - www.cbi.co.za ... The Learning Pit - www.thelearningpit.com Edited by the Electrical Apparatus staff.
- Standards briefs Government to specify premium motors .. Harmonized safety standards promoted .. Improve your international vocabulary ... Revised battery standard adopted ... Edited by the Electrical Apparatus staff.
- Training Briefs Announcements of
workshops, seminars and instructional materials, in every issue and updated
on the web. See our Training
page for current offerings. In this issue - Motor diagnostics, from All-Test Pro
www.alltestpro.com ... Light-emitting diodes from The Lighting Research Center of Renssaelaer Polytechnic Institute -
www.lrc.rpi.edu ... Motor/generator maintenance, from Jarsco Engineering Corp, TECO-Westinghouse and Iris Power Engineering
www.irispower.com ..... Corrosion testing, from ASTM International ... Power quality ... Servo motors, from Quality Solutions Co.,
www.motor-solutions.com ... Power quality, from PowerCET Corp
www.powercet.com ... Maintenance management from New Standard Institute ... Motor & drive application, from Baldor Electric ... High-voltage maintenance from Ox Creek Energy -
www.corona-technology-course.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 ... Infrared thermography from Infrared Training Center -
www.infraredtraining.com/courses Edited by Bill O'Leary
Producers of workshops, seminars, and instructional materials are encouraged to send announcements to Training Briefs Editor, Electrical Apparatus. See Contact Us page. Certain restrictions apply - contact the editors for details. - Say It Right Full voltage starting: Do you really mean it? The motor supplier may assume you mean something you don't. by Richard L. Nailen, P.E., EA Engineering Editor
Names and Faces Nitin Kulkarni of Helwig Carbon Products ... Glen Goedecke of the National Association of Electrical Distributors (left) ... Tom Larson of Trek, Inc.(right) ... Steven Fenelli of John C. Dolph Co. ...Edited by the EA Staff
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Deaths Harold L. Chase, former president of Giles Armature and Electric Works
(pictured with his wife, Geneva)
- Electronics (Automation briefs) Control panels, from Astec Power and Eurotherm ... Motors from Oriental Motor USA ... UPS's from Staco Energy Products ... Media converters from B&B Electronics ... Intelligent sensor from Saelig Co ... Wireless transmitter from Adalet Wireless Edited by David P. Tryling
- Product briefs Test Instruments from Megger and Fluke ... Measuring Equipment from B&K Precision ... Tools from Klein Tools ... Thermally conductive grease from Epoxies, Inc. ... Diesel engines for generator sets from Caterpillar ... ... Redesigned motor line from Siemens ... Edited by the EA Staff.
- Cy's Super Service, Motorhead and Generatorhead Comic strips featuring characters from our favorite cartoonists
- Direct and Current Keeping an eye on employees ... The electroindustry business confidence index ... Product piracy accounts for 8% of world trade ... the number of US seniors will double in 25 years ... Not all signs of improved health are positive ... Fourteen percent lie about their resumes ... By the Editors
- Advertising Index An easy to use reference to the advertisements in Electrical Apparatus magazine.
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