Electrical Industry Articles and Stories

Winter will some day be over (it snowed here today… in Arkansas!) And undoubtedly some of us will be slathering on the SPF-whatever to protect us from the sun’s rays. Did you know that Old Sol is about 5,000 degrees on the surface?

I’m old enough to remember days when cash registers weren’t computerized – they used electricity but were otherwise pretty analog devices. But a lot has changed since the first computerized cash register – or, as retailers say, point-of-sale (POS) devices – was introduced in 1973.

In the food processing plant where I cut my electrical teeth, there were ceiling drops for sticker guns to label bagged product. Some of the workers complained about getting shocked off the stainless still bins that held the product. Adding inline GFCIs helped (although some still complained, even when no voltage was present).