Short Circuits
Sep 1, 2007,
Tarzan the Electrician I was fresh out of college, recently returning from Army active duty, and was hired on as an electrician at a small electrical...
Record Gains Bring Labor Pains
Sep 1, 2007, By Beck Ireand, Staff Writer
An unprecedented 47 of this year's Top 50 electrical contractors reported an increase in sales from 2005 to 2006. One of the firms leading this trend...
Calculating Arc Flash Energy Levels
Sep 1, 2007, By Benjamin O. Medich, P.E., Ballinger
While not a major topic of consideration when designing and maintaining facilities in past years, code-enforcement bodies have become increasingly aware...
Article 230: Services Part 2
Sep 1, 2007, By Mike Holt, NEC Consultant
Part 1 of this two-part series, which ran in last month's August issue, explored how to ensure your service entrance equipment meets Code. Starting with...
Seeing the Light
Sep 1, 2007, By Gary Nangle, P.E., Cronis, Liston, Nangle & White, LLP
Although industrial lighting has historically been a step behind technologies used for other building types, many of the advancements made over the past...
SHOCKING STAT OF THE MONTH
Sep 1, 2007,
1,000 The number of projects in the industrial manufacturing industry that began construction in North America in the first half of 2007. These projects...
Service Secrets
Sep 1, 2007, By Amy Florence Fischbach, Contributing Writer
Jim Kleiser, franchisee owner of Mr. Electric in Vancouver, Wash., started his own business with a service truck in his garage. In less than 18 months,...
Illustrated Catastrophes
Sep 1, 2007, By Joe Tedesco, NEC Columnist
As usual, never consider the following commentary associated with these photos as a formal interpretation of the National Electrical Code (NEC). Without...
Code Quandaries
Sep 1, 2007, By Mike Holt, NEC Consultant
All questions and answers are based on the 2005 NEC. Q. Can Type MC cable be installed from fixture to fixture without support above a suspended ceiling?...
Reader Comments on Case of Suffocating Swine
Sep 1, 2007,
Reader Comments on Case of the Suffocating Swine After reading the Forensic Casebook article in the March 2007 issue several times and studying the photographs,...
What's Wrong Here?
Sep 1, 2007, By Joe Tedesco, NEC Columnist
How well do you know the Code? Think you can spot violations the original installer either ignored or couldn't identify? Here's your chance to moonlight...
Safer Aerial Work Platforms Only a Click Away
Sep 1, 2007,
It's a well-known fact that, when worn, automobile seat belts save lives. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), based...
Numbers Game
Sep 1, 2007, By Michael Eby, Editor-in-Chief
Every time I pick up a newspaper, turn on the radio, or tune in to the local or national TV news, all I hear about is how bad the residential housing...
ACEEE Scorecard Rates States on Energy Efficiency
Sep 1, 2007,
To identify those states committed to safeguarding the environment, the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), Washington, D.C., has...
The Case of the Knockoff Motor
Sep 1, 2007, By Curtis E. Falany, P.E., FORCON International Corp.
Have you ever heard the expression, green is ground the world around? I have, many times. But do you ever personally check the green conductor to see...
Plug-and-Play Subsystem Platform
Sep 1, 2007, By Stefanie Kure, Senior Associate Editor
Every so often, a groundbreaking product comes along that has the potential to transform an entire industry. The Convia programmable building platform,...
Battery Sizing Basics
Sep 1, 2007, By Shanmuga S. Pandian, SOFCON
Because stationary batteries and 48VDC power systems serve as lifelines for telecommunication networks, the reliability of these systems is of the utmost...
Magnetic Motor Starter Basics
Sep 1, 2007, By Steve Vidal, P.E., Joseph J. Vidal & Sons, Inc.
The NEC defines a controller in a few different ways. In Art. 100, a controller is described as a device or group of devices that serves to govern, in...
Observations on Supplemental Grounding and Bonding: Part 3
Sep 1, 2007, By William Bush, Panduit
In Part 2 of this article (August 2007), we described multipoint (or common-type) supplemental grounding and bonding between the T(M)GB [notation used...
Product News
Sep 1, 2007,
Synthetic pulling lubricants Premium Synthetic winter-grade pulling lubricant can be used in temperatures ranging from -20F to 120F. Available in a 1-qt...
2008 Truck & Van Preview
Sep 1, 2007, By the Editors of Fleet Owner magazine
Despite the big falloff in new truck sales this year due to the mandated introduction of EPA 2007-compliant diesel engines into 2008 model year trucks...
Product News
Sep 1, 2007,
Access ports Panel-Safe control cabinet power and data access ports help protect personnel from high voltage, shock hazards, and arc flash hazards covered...
The Case of the Conveyor Catastrophe
Aug 1, 2007, By Andrew Paris, P.E., Anderson Engineering
The night in question couldn't have been more normal at the baked goods plant. Throughout the day, sheets of dough wind through a twisting maze of machinery...
Printed and Organic Lighting Market to Top Almost $3 Billion by 2012
Aug 1, 2007,
Owing to higher energy efficiencies and the ability to create novel lighting products, the adoption of solid-state lighting (SSL), such as organic light-emitting...
Product Spotlight
Aug 1, 2007,
Digital multimeters The 310 series of digital multimeters measures AC-DC voltage, resistance, continuity, and temperature. Suitable for general troubleshooting,...
