Identifying faulty portable electrical tools and equipment
16 February, 2009
A safety bulletin recently issued by WorkSafe Victoria, stressing the importance of testing and tagging, highlights a business opportunity for the electrical industry.
Archicentre warns of hot weather stress on electrical wiring
16 February, 2009
Recent hot weather is placing condiserable load on electrical wiring in homes, but exposing some residents to the risk of fires due to sub-standard or inadequate installations.
Stainless steel cable tray
03 February, 2009 | Supplied by: Pentair
The Hoffman Clean Tray range of UL Type 1 stainless steel cable tray for power and data cable management in sanitary food and beverage processing and packaging environments has been expanded to include additional fittings and sections for easier installation and optimal sanitary performance.
Earth leakage circuit breaker
03 February, 2009 | Supplied by: NHP Electrical Engineering Products Pty Ltd
The Terasaki ZS earth leakage moulded case circuit breaker (MCCB) offers machine or personnel protection within a standard 125 A, 160/250 A MCCB frame size. The MCCB maintains the functionality of a standard thermal-magnetic overload/short-circuit protection device.
High-immunity RCDs
03 February, 2009 | Supplied by: ABB Australia Pty Ltd
The AP-R range of residual current devices (RCDs) is designed with high-immunity characteristics to overcome the problems associated with unwanted tripping due to overvoltages of atmospheric or operational origin in domestic, commercial and industrial systems where service continuity is essential.
Surge protection
03 February, 2009 | Supplied by: Novaris Pty Ltd
The SLT range of threaded instrument protectors provides surge protection for most forms of industrial monitoring and control.
Harmonic filtering solutions for VSDs
03 February, 2009 | Supplied by: NHP Electrical Engineering Products Pty Ltd
NHP’s Advanced Active Front End/Regenerative VSD solutions produce a very low level of harmonic distortion in addition to providing benefits for managing regenerative energy back into the mains power grid.
Large-scale power board
03 February, 2009 | Supplied by: Jackson Industries
The PT8282 is a 2 m long power board that contains 10 mains outlets that are spaced 200 mm apart to enable devices, including plug packs and chargers, to be connected to mains supply.
Tradies’ Bluetooth headset
03 February, 2009 | Supplied by: Plantronics Pty Ltd
The Explorer 370 is a ruggedised Bluetooth headset designed to withstand harsh conditions so outdoor workers and tradespeople can answer calls and continue working.
Benchtop drop saw
03 February, 2009 | Supplied by: Power Machinery Pty Ltd
The Willy 225 industrial strength sawing machine is a small bench-model sawing machine that is built entirely from cast iron and features bronze gear, case-hardened grounded worm screw and screw-locked swivelling head for mitre cuts of 0 to 45° left.
Noise suppression chokes
03 February, 2009 | Supplied by: Westek Electronics Pty Ltd
Schaffner noise suppression chokes cover symmetrical (differential) and asymmetrical (common-mode) noise suppression.
Load break switches
03 February, 2009 | Supplied by: NHP Electrical Engineering Products Pty Ltd
The Sirco M range of modular load-break switches and accessories manufactured by Socomec is a modular switching concept, covering the range 16-125 A and combining seamlessly with the existing Socomec range of load-break switches to offer solutions to a variety of power switching and control applications, ranging from 16 to 4000 A.
Power transfer switch
03 February, 2009 | Supplied by: Eaton Electrical (Australia) Pty Ltd
Eaton has expanded its ePDU rack power distribution range with the 16 A single-phase Powerware eATS rackmounted automatic transfer switch.
Rack-mountable hot air exhaust system
03 February, 2009 | Supplied by: LeisureTech Electronics Pty Ltd
The Cool-Stack III, manufactured by Active Thermal Management, is a rack-mountable one-unit high hot air exhaust system that utilises four 120 mm fans that are claimed to pull up to 70 cfm of hot air out from tightly packed racks, while generating low noise levels of 26 dB. Heated air is exhausted through the perforated front panel, or exhaust fittings and tubing provided with the unit, to move hot air away from a cabinet.
SDR-240 DIN rail power supplies
03 February, 2009 | Supplied by: ADM Instrument Engineering Group
The SDR-240 is the first model in the Meanwell Slim DIN rail product series of DIN rail power supplies. The slim design of 63.5 mm in width saves space on the rail and makes it 42% smaller in size in comparison to its predecessor model.
