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Industry News Pentair Technical Products has introduced Excelerate, a new way of doing business with the enclosure solutions provider, Hoffman. Excelerate is an end-to-end engagement with customers, making it easy for them to find the solutions for all their design needs. Hoffman’s Excelerate offers more than 12,000 standard products immediately available through their distribution network. In addition, customers have the flexibility to modify a standard product via the Design Your Standard solution to meet unique project requirements. For more complex projects, Hoffman’s Engineered Solutions gives customers access to total product customization. Excelerate includes tools that make choosing, designing and ordering enclosures simple and easy. Customers have access at every step in the process, increasing efficiency and convenience. With the new e-Select tool, design engineers and channel partners can find enclosure solutions for their applications in just a few clicks. “We are thrilled to unveil this new approach with our customers,” said Phil Pejovich, presiden, Pentair Technical Products. “Our entire team is dedicated to making sure our customers’ projects are completed with the right enclosure at the right time.” Pentair Technical Products Launches Excelerate In addition to flipping through the catalog pages, the Webbased interface gives user the ability to easily browse thumbnails of each page for faster, at-a-glance product selection. A toolbar at the bottom of the screen also offers a search feature, as well as one-click options for PDF downloading and printing. New Gore Business Unit Formed to Help Protection Portable Electronics Devices NEMA Publishes NEMA AB 3 Molded Case Circuit Breakers and Their Application The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) published NEMA AB 3 Molded Case Circuit Breakers and Their Application. This application guide covers molded case circuit breakers and molded case switches, single-pole and multi-pole, fused and un-fused, and their accessories. These circuit breakers and switches are assembled as integral units in supporting housings of insulating material and have rated voltages up to and including 1,000 V, 50/60Hz, AC or AC/DC, and have rated interrupting current ratings of 5,000 Amperes or more. Updates to this publication include the addition of photovoltiac circuit breakers, National Electrical Code references and diagrams. W. L. Gore & Associates (Gore) has stepped up its efforts to help OEM customers maintain and protect sensitive electronics in cell phones, laptop/tablet PCs, two-way radios and other handheld and portable electronic devices by creating a new business unit. Gore Portable Electronic Vents will concentrate on providing solutions to protect devices from water, dust and dirt ingress while maintaining the integrity of sound transmission. “Active users expect smart phones, laptop computers, two-way radios, tablets and other portable electronic devices to function well in any environment,” said Gore associate Victor Lusvardi, Global Business Leader for the new Portable Electronic Vents unit. “They must withstand water, dust, liquids and harsh environments without compromising performance or reliability.” Gore Venting solutions for portable electronics prevent contaminants from entering, while preserving sound transmission quality through the use of high transmission materials employing Gore’s ePTFE (expanded polytetraflouroethylene) technology. These are available in a variety of product forms for protection from dust and splash as well as full immersion. First PCI Express Gen 3 Expansion System Ships to NASA CRU-DataPort RTX Enclosures Featured in the Amazing Spider-Man The Amazing Spider-Man follows the original story of Peter Parker, an orphan bitten by a radioactive spider who acquires extraordinary powers. In a quest to understand his parents’ disappearance, Spider-Man is lead directly to Oscorp lab where his father’s former partner, Dr. Curt Connors, securely stores his clandestine scientific data on CRU-DataPort’s RTX storage enclosures. The use of CRU-DataPort’s RTX enclosures in “The Amazing Spider-Man” inspired CRU-Dataport to offer customers tickets to the movie and a chance to win the new RTX110-3Q single TrayFre bay enclosure that connects to almost any host via USB 3.0, FireWire 800 and eSATA. RTX enclosures are used for data storage, backup and archiving. RTX units are available with up to eight TrayFree bays and multiple interface options (Multilane, eSATA, iSCSI, FireWire 400/800, USB 2.0 and USB 3.0). The units support any capacity 3.5 inch SATA drive. One Stop Systems, Inc. (OSS) has delivered two of its PCIe Gen 3 expansion enclosures to NASA Goddard Space Flight Center’s High-End Computer Network (HECN) Team. NASA is using these enclosures to demonstrate high speed diskto-disk transfers. Each enclosure supports up to eight RAID controllers that transfer data to solid-state disk drives, achieving diskto-disk transfer speeds that exceed 100 Gb/s. These data transfer speeds allow NASA to predict climate change and other complex modeling and simulation tasks. “One Stop Systems has previously supplied NASA with Gen 2 expansion enclosures that achieved 60 Gbps disk-to disk over the Internet and tested up to 72 Gbps disk-to-disk,” said Steve Cooper, CEO, One Stop Systems. “We are confident that the Gen 3 expansion system will help HECN exceed 100 Gbps disk-to-disk transfers.” NuSil Technology Expands New Interactive EMI Shielding Catalog Library To help improve the way engineers search for EMI shielding products, Leader Tech recently converted its entire library of product catalogs to an interactive digital format. Each of the company’s board, enclosure, FerriShield ferrite and fabric shielding gasket brochures are now available online for instant browsing. The e-reader style page turn presentation makes users feel like they are reading a printed publication with the advantage of several technology enhancements. NuSil Technology LLC has announced plans for a major facility and capacity expansion in Bakersfield, Calif. Construction of a third building is complete, and the site is on track to reach a total of seven buildings on the 15-acre campus. “This facility expansion will result in increased employment opportunities across many functional areas at NuSil Technology’s Bakersfield campus,” said Bill Klansek, vice president of Manufacturing, NuSil Technology. “MorehouseCowles, a NuSil subsidiary, will be designing and building much of the equipment necessary to support the new manufacturing processes.” The newly completed third building increases the polymer processing capacity while adding additional warehousing space. The fourth building, at approximately 35,000 square feet, is now under construction and is scheduled for completion in September 2012. This new structure will become the center for Quality Assurance, Human Resources and Engineering, and will feature an enlarged QA testing laboratory and expanded office facilities. 29 September/October 2012 www.ElectronicsProtectionMagazine.com http://www.ElectronicsProtectionMagazine.com

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HP Intelligent Series Racks Offer Monitoring Capabilities for Data Centers
The Unknown Problem with Airtight Enclosures
Key Drivers When Turning to Captive Panel Screws
Emerging Trends in Field Equipment Enclosures
JV Industrial Solves Power Outage Issues with Battery-Free Flywheel
The Green Data Center Opportunity
The Power-Grid and Protecting Electronic Devices
Maximizing Availability, Capacity and Efficiency with Rising Data Center Temperatures
Canyonwest Cases Releases new Enclosures for Flat-Screen TV Transportation
Ohmite Manufacturing Releases Radial-Fin Heat Sink Extrusions
Rogers Introduces Condux Plus Conductive Foams
FIP Gasketing Resin Offers Advantages over Gasketing Materials
Minmax Power Releases MSGWI06 Series of DC/DC Power Modules
New E-Line Locking Systems Reduce Security Costs and Enhance Locking Solutions
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Electronics Protection - September/October 2012