Light Efficient Design
Save Money, Energy, and Maintenance Time with LED Luminaires
I was talking to my brother, Mark, on the phone last night. We’d been
trying to connect all week and finally got the chance. I’m in Arkansas
and he’s in Arizona, so the time difference can be a pain.
We just missed each other the day before because he was over with the neighbors across the street.
Hubbell Wiring Systems
Residential Premises Wiring for Better Data Connectivity
Right now, I’m writing this article from the comfort of my side yard.
Sitting on my bench under the tree, cup of coffee on the table in front
of me. And I’m totally connected to the internet via an access point in
my office about 30 feet away.
nVent HOFFMAN
What Makes Steel “Mild” – Ironing Out Your Metal Material Options
Looking through a manufacturer’s online enclosure catalog recently, I
came across a term I hadn’t heard before. Now, I’m not a contractor, so I
likely haven’t seen as many of these listings as you might have. But I
am a journalist who has covered the construction industry for several
decades, and the term “mild steel” stuck out to me when it showed up as a
material option for the maker’s broad range of enclosure offerings.
Philips Lighting Co.
Philips Lighting Offers Array of New LED Products
Earlier this year at the Light + Building 2018 trade show in Frankfurt,
Germany, Philips Lighting announced a string of new initiatives aimed at
the transition to more LED lamps as well as the inclusion of LEDs into
the “Internet of Things” (IoT) in homes and buildings worldwide.
First
the company announced IoT platform called Interact, designed to handle
data collected from connected light points, sensors, devices and
systems.
Legrand/Pass & Seymour
Less Work to Meet Safety Requirements
Some facilities are changing their requirements for motor and appliance
installations. This could be due to OSHA Lock-out and Tag-out
requirements or NFPA 70E. The change is toward using pin and sleeve
devices instead of having a hard-wired installation.
Safety requirements often have the maintenance person checking for the
absence of voltage before touching. The rules are quite specific and are
enforced by OSHA.
Panduit Corp
Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) – No Battery, Maintenance-Free
The Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) uses 24VDC input/output to
provide 35W of power and 5 to 15 minutes Hold Time and is designed for
critical networking and control applications such as industrial managed
switches and human machine interfaces (HMI’s). The Industrial UPS uses
Ultracapacitors instead of batteries, eliminating the #1 cause of
conventional UPS failures, which lowers the risk of downtime - and
there’s no need for costly and time consuming maintenance.