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Electrical Apparatus
June 2003
Featured articles
- Service Shops - Recharging the future, one shop - and town - at a time ... Pennsylvania electrical service company Penn Coil (Pennsylvania Electric Coil) reaps big benefits from its move to a vacant Westinghouse facility - and brightens the small town of Glassport, Pennsylvania in the process. By Joe Barks, EA Associate Publisher
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Testing & Measuring - When (and why) is motor surface temperature important? There are several reasons: two important ones in particular
By Richard L. Nailen, P.E., EA Engineering Editor (Read an online summary)
- Conventions - What's new in service technology:A sneak preview of exhibitors at this year's convention of the Electrical Apparatus Service Association ... By Kevin Jones, EA Senior Editor, and Joseph Hoff, EA Assistant Editor
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Bearings - Sleeve bearing load limits: How their load is calculated and their limits
By Richard L. Nailen, P.E., EA Engineering Editor
- Safety and Health - The key to a safe workplace: People cause more accidents than equipment By Richard B. Elsberry, EA Contributing Editor
- Accounting - Controlling payroll and personnel: How a modest investment of money and time can protect against liability and payroll manipulation By William H. Wiersema, CPA, EA Contributing Editor
Departments and Columns (for additional information or to submit material, see the Departments and Columns page.)
- Editor's Comment It's time to reverse the decline in manufacturing ... the exhibit area at the EASA convention is where the action is .... by Horace B. Barks, Editor and Publisher
- Let's Solve Your Problem How is 'duty' shown on foreign motor nameplates? ... Does fan-cooled motor need less cooling air? ... is corona the only problem for drive motors? ... What explains variation in brush grades? ... How to test motors to meet IEEE 519 ... Is motor noise related to motor efficiency?... What's the meaning of drive belt RPM? ... Circuit breaker causes trouble, but fuses don't ... A simple formula for end ring size... Edited by the EA staff
- Letters Troubleshooting service panels from Michael Wilson, Readville, Massachusetts ... More sales stories, from Michael Dreisilker, President, Trans-Tek/Flolo HVAC supply, Northbrook, Illinois ... New standards update, from Dan Martin, Martin's Electrical Service LLC, Tamaqua, PA ... 3-phase pump service, from Gerry Shand, P. Eng., Sales and Applications Engineer, Babco Electric and Engineering, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada...
- Business Briefs 3_D Service of Massillon, Ohio, buys Waukesha service center of Cincinnati...ARB selling Georgia manufacturing plant Power Partners, Inc. ... Dreisilker Electric Motors chosen as an authorized service partner for Franz Kessler GmbH motors ... Optical interconnect maker ITT Industries, Cannon, of Santa Ana, CA appoints Stratos Lightwave, Inc., of Chicago as a value-added reseller ... Koyo Corp of USA, Westlake, Ohio, awarded John Deere Supplier of the Year award ... The Cutler Hammer division of Eaton Corp, Moon Township, PA, has entered a distributed energy control venture with Engage Networks, Inc., of Milwaukee ... President George W. Bush mentions City Machine Technologies, Inc., of Canton, Ohio, in his weekly radio address (the company was profiled in Electrical Apparatus September 2002) ... Certification Briefs The Eraser Company of Syracuse NY and Wall Colmonoy Corp of Madison Heights, Michigan, are certified to ISO9001:2000 ..Financial Briefs featuring Baldor Electric Company and its acquisition of Energy Dynamics ... New Sales Reps Circuit Assembly Corp announces additional reps Elec Tech, Inc., Northgrove Technologies Inc., and RV Components ... Distributor Briefs GE Supply of Shelton Connecticut enters into a three year agreement with DST Controls ... Edited by Kevin Jones, EA Senior Editor
- Trade associations, professional societies and government activities The National Association of Manufacturers backs Nike in the landmark Supreme Court case ... Association for independent distributors to be launched as the Independent Distributors of Electronics Association ...Joint educational session added to the Refrigeration Service Engineers Society conference ... UCLA professor Eli Yablonovitch is named to National Academy of Sciences ... The Refrigeration Service Engineers Society is distributing Elite Software for HVAC, electrical, plumbing and fire protection designs at discounted prices to RSES members ... New lamination steels CD-ROM is released ... Department of Transportation issues final rule on cylinders ... Edited by Joseph Hoff
- Training Briefs Standards compliance at CE Marking Basics, Pittsburgh and CE 123 Pittsburgh ... Workplace safety from Behavioral Science Technology, Inc. ... troubleshooting and maintaining critical UPS systems from Solidstate Controls, Inc. ... customer education in motors and drives from Baldor Electric Company ... fluid power, electrical equipment troubleshooting, PLC's and bearings from The Motion Institute, Birmingham ... Edited by Joseph Hoff
- Standards briefs National Fire Protection Association revises Electrical Code Requirements for One- and Two-Family Dwellings ... Underwriters Laboratories releases first edition of ANSI/UL 60947-1 for industrial control equipment ... the adopted and the outdated at American National Standards Institute ... Edited by the Electrical Apparatus staff.
- Calendar Briefs - Upcoming trade shows, symposia, and events, from June 2003 through September 2004 ... Edited by Joseph Hoff
- Automation briefs Data acquisition and storage - a new PCI filter and amplifier card from Alligator Technologies ... super compact data loggers from Dickson Co. ... Ethernet-based high speed data acquisition devices from IOtech ... a handheld G-Code program loader from Nyden Corp ... a new non-contact analog position sensor from Balluff, Inc. ... a single card bus and PCMCIA card from CyberResearch .. a new industrial wireless sensor link from Wilcoxon Research ... semiconductor assemblies from HBControls ... a new power supply from Omron Electronics LLC ... ... Edited by David P. Tryling
- Electrical Manager Getting the most from a trade show ... Thirteen time-wasters (including email, a messy desk, inability to say no, and more), and one time-saver (8 hours of sleep a night) ...
- Names and Faces Ray Prince named president of operations in the Americas for MGE UPS Systems ... Mark McRoberts of Hyundai Electric Motor Division, Seoul, Korea ... Thomas R. Draper of Balluff, Inc... Dave Rice of Cooper B-Line ... Tim Twyford and Robert Behmer of Cooper Wiring Devices... Bruce Mendoza of ITT Industries ... Anthony T. Castor III of Chromalox, Inc. .... Edited by Joseph Hoff
- Literature An electrical plan review manual from Cooper Bussman ... a brochure featuring a pad-mounted substation from Cooper Power Systems ... Electrical wiring devices catalog form Marinco Industrial Group .. A-C or D-C power mobile mast reach trucks brochure from Linde Lift Truck Corp ... catalog of cable ties and wiring accessories from Panduit ... industrial controls catalog from Baco Controls, Inc. ... the 2003 Motors and Drives Catalog from Minarik Drives ... Edited by the EA staff
- Web briefs Square D - Electrical distribution, controls and power management ... Appleton Electric - electrical construction products ... Wall Colmooy Corp - Making metals worth harder ... T/IRSystems LLC - IR information for the real world ... Meltric Corp - switch rated safety ... Greenlee Textron - Cable installation & contractors tools; multimeters, network certification instruments, conduit benders, knockout punches, tool storage systems... Soundcoat Co., Inc - The Total Approach To Noise Control... Seton Identification Products - EH&S Compliance Resource Centers... NACE International - The Corrosion Society ... ASI Robicon - the next generation of industrial power controls ... Snell Infrared - training, certification and support for thermographers... Stahlin - Non-Metallic Enclosures ... American Insulated Wire Corp - wire and cable products ... Edited by the Electrical Apparatus staff.
- Product briefs Controls, drives and inverters, measuring equipment, motors and gearmotors, power quality, power transmission, safety products, software, switching devices, test instruments, and interconnections ... Edited by the EA Staff.
- Braintrainers Puzzles you and your colleagues can solve for fun and, if your answers are correct, for recognition in Electrical Apparatus. This month's puzzle is TIC-TAC-15. In this issue, we've published the names of those who answered the last "What did he buy?" puzzle correctly: Gayle Littrell of Krauth Electric, Lexington, KY, and Rod Vellenweth of Tri-State Electric Machine Company, Glendale, West Virginia, were first with their correct answers. Other readers who were correct were Ken Andrew's, Ken's Electric Motor Repair, Seville, Ohio .. John Bergman, St. Louis County, Minn ... Lowell Burkholder, Burkholder's Motor Repair, Richland, PA ... Michael DeFonce, DeFonce Construction, West Harrison, NY .. Becky Earl, Southern Electric Coil, Hammond, In ... Dave Freeman, Motion Industries, Chicago, IL ... Don Hay, Keith Hay Electric, Kingston, Ontario, Canada... Mark Holden, Lafert North America, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada ...Richard Kotcella, Monongahela Valley Hostpial, Monongahela, PA ... Brian LaCoursierre, Circuit City National Music Distribution, Louisville, KY,... Jack Lopes, NSTAR Electric, Walpole, MA ... Gary Mezo, Kilred Winding Industries Ltd., Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada .. Art Michael, International Product Safety News, Middletown, CT .. Bret W. Mock, HJi-Speed Industrial Service, Memphis, TN ... Sarah Murphy, Cheyenne Electric Motor, Las Vegas, NV ... Mike Oswalt, Michael D. Oswalt, Vacaville, CA ... Richard Rensock, Llyoy'ds Electric Co.., Ferndale, MI .. C.J. Runtal, Sears Logistics Services, Delano, CA ... Garry Smyda, Allegheny Power, Greensburg, PA ... Paul Snopek, Reliance Electric Service Co, Holyoke, MA ... Rod Vellenoweth, Tri-State Electric and Machine Co., Glen Dale, West Virginia .. David S. Walker, Walker Electric Repair, Monmouth, IL ... by Lillian Nielsen, Special Correspondent
- Direct and Current No more electric cars in California? ... an increase in overtime pay ... employees must now have emergency safety training ... a slight improvement in air conditioning equipment sales ... stopping spam ... reducing non-highway diesel engine pollution .... by the Editors
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