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BURNDY® LLC

Putting a Crimp in Your Style – Part One

Honestly, I can't think of anything that bothers me more than stray hairs. Now, I'm not talking about the hairs on my head. (In fact, the older I get, the less I have to worry about those, if you know what I mean.)

Panduit Corp

Ratings Matter When Specifying Fiber Optic Cable

Fiber optic technology has become standard where high bandwidth capacity is required – data centers being a prime example of such applications. Like other cabling products, fiber optic cables all can look pretty similar from the outside. However, just as electrical cabling comes in different varieties to meet every application’s specific safety requirements, so, too, do fiber optic offerings.

BURNDY® LLC

Putting a Crimp in Your Style – Part Two

In a previous article, we looked at some of the manually operated hand tools for crimping terminals and splices. Some of them would crimp sizes up to #2 AWG. Not bad.

But when you get into the heavier electrical work, such as building transformers and other more industrial type work, a hand tool may not cut it … excuse me … crimp it.

Non-metallic QuickLatch™ with installed strut clip

Atkore Calconduit/Calbrite/Calbond

One-piece TECK Connectors from Atkore Offer IP65-rated Protection

Atkore has expanded its one-piece TECK cable connectors to provide maximum protection in a wide range of indoor and outdoor applications. Available in two new versions to meet application demands, both the Calbrite Stainless Steel and Calbond PVC Coated aluminum TECK cable connectors deliver reliable and rugged performance in harsh environments.

Sperry Instruments Inc.

Three Top Choices for Building Your Testing Toolbox

Enter the phrase “electrical tester” into your search engine of choice and you’ll get literally millions of choices (107,000,000, to be exact, in my latest try). But which of the many varieties of testers are the most essential for electrical contractors in day-to-day work?

Moxa Americas, Inc.

Don’t Let OT Data Traps Be the Downfall of Industrial Digital Transformation

Industrial digital transformation seeks to break down the silos between an enterprise’s information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT), translating the physical behavior of OT devices into digital data, and distilling insights with the help of IT’s analysis.

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