Volume 16, Issue 453

A Beverly Hills company is now selling a cellphone that costs seventy thousand dollars. The cellphone is covered with sapphires, platinum, and rubies.

Ironically, it's a smartphone, but if you buy one, you're an idiot.

-Jay Leno

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What Roll Ups Give Us
By Bill Floyd

Is less more, or is more less?

Unless you've been distracted these past several years you couldn't help noticing all the roll ups that have taken place. Smaller, often family-owned, distributors are now smaller parts of of larger entities. Likewise, for formerly independent manufacturers. There are obvious advantages and disadvantages to this evolution that are worth examining.






NAILD Partner App

Download the NAILD Partner App from iTunes!

The National Association of Independent Lighting Distributors was founded in 1977 by a group of lighting specialist distributors and has grown steadily since then. The association’s membership is made up of lighting distributors, vendor manufacturers of lighting equipment, products and supplies used by our MRO, contractor and facility end-user customers. Use our mobile app to explore catalogs, search products, view videos, create product lists, and more.





This Month's Smart eCat Features: BURNDY


With the popularity of the Internet, the world has changed. SMART eCAT is now one new important way. Each month we will feature a new manufacturer’s electronic SMART eCAT that will show how looking up products and using manufacturer’s catalogs have never been easier. This “eCatalog Collection” now also appears on our distributor partner and manufacturer rep’s websites as well. We encourage you to look for these there and deal with the companies with which you already have close relationships and work hard to serve your everyday needs.

Click here to enter their Compression Connectors catalog section.





"E-Smarts to B-Smart" Promotion


We're going Social! Now you can reply to the Monthly Questions via email like you always have or on Facebook.

We're going social. Yes, the ElectricSmarts Facebook page is attracting a lot of interest. You can still win $100 just by emailing us your answer as you've always done. But now, we are entering folks who answer the question on Facebook into the potential prize-winner pool as well. So go ahead answer anyway you'd like and make some money and have fun while you learn.

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This Issue's Question: Who now offers New Quantum Vue Facility Management Tool to "Manage your building from anywhere. Easily monitor, control and optimize a {our} control system from any tablet, PC or smartphone.





Switchboards On-Demand to the Job Site
James R. Dukart

Teaming up with distribution partner Square D Distributors, Schneider Electric is now offering on-demand standardized or customized electrical switchboards delivered direct to a job site.

Lori Whitbey, a senior marketing specialist for Schneider, explains that emergencies happen, from flooding to storms and sprinkler system malfunction to industrial accidents, arc flash and even rodent infestation, that require immediate switch-out of switchboards in order to restore electrical power.





Precision Sensors for Increased Automation Productivity
Steve Maurer, IME

We've come a long way since service and production technicians relied on only their senses to ensure efficiency. Sight, sound and touch were vital to maintenance and quality control in the past. They have modern-day counterparts: sensors.

Technicians not only had to use their senses and interpret the feedback, but to make decisions. With the high speed and essential precision of today's automated systems, a human can't keep up.





Custom Switchboard Options from Schneider
James R. Dukart

Schneider Electric offers numerous switchboard customization options to meet the demands of today’s ever-changing electrical customer.

From generated distribution and green power to varying load and circuit demands based on time-of-day pricing, contractors and customers are seeing a growth in demand for customizable switchboards. Another driver — pun intended — may well be the growing number of electric vehicles in use today; vehicles charging overnight create new demand curves for utilities, affecting the switchgear and switchboard options onsite.





Homac® Transformer Connectors’ Compact Design Increases Connection Capacity
Thomas & Betts

In electrical distribution, the transformer regulates voltage as electricity flows from the power source to the load, which is what consumes electrical energy. Electricity is delivered in the form of single-phase alternating current (AC) for residential applications and three-phase AC for both commercial and network systems for large buildings, such as airports, hospitals, data centers and arenas, as well as entire city blocks.







Anamet Electrical, Inc.

How to Cut Anaconda SEALTITE® Liquid-Tight Flexible Conduit

How to avoid all too common problems caused by poor cutting.





Hubbell Wiring Systems

AUTOGUARD GFCI Receptacles®

Self test monitoring now required in 2015 UL 943 GFCI Safety Standard… Hubbell AUTOGUARD® GFCI receptacles continually test and monitor for “people protection capability” automatically.





IDEAL INDUSTRIES, INC.

IDEAL Wipes™ The Multi-Purpose Towel

Pre-moistened wipes with sealing, moisture retaining canister. Cleans dirt, grease, lube and grime.





USB Receptacle Pop-up Floor Boxes from Orbit
Disposable Enclosure Locks from Burndy®
Eaton Offers Efficient and Efficacious Asymmetric Lighting Solutions to Large Open Spaces
Eaton’s Redesigned Mounting Brackets Advance Strength, Flexibility and Ease of Installation for Electrical Boxes
Leviton Introduces New LED Ceiling Occupancy Sensor
Littelfuse Introduces Circuit Protection Industry’s First True High Power Surface Mount TVS Diodes for Lower Production Costs
The Cully™ Brand from Minerallac Company Fasteners, Anchors, Tools, Safety Products, Paints, and Chemicals
Eaton Helps OEMs Reduce Size of Next Generation Power Conversion, Energy Storage Technology with 48 Percent Smaller Compact High Speed Fuses

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