Original article date: June 2000
Pilz’s Pipanel Touch is now used at Triumph to calculate shim sizes required, specific to each engine against default sizes.
Thunderbird, Daytona and Tiger… To any discerning motorcycle enthusiast, these names conjure up a unique image of highly desirable, technologically advanced motorcycles. In a word, Triumph.
With its sophisticated engine systems, combined with [...]
Original article date: June 2000
Put these guidelines into practice when using enclosures and cases, and you’ll be OK with OKW!
Cases have quite an influence on the electromagnetic compatibility of a product. The main reasons for EMC interference are:
Conductive – within low frequency range below 100MHz
Radiation from Cables – within medium frequency range (30-300MHz)
Penetration through material [...]
Original article date: October 1998
A new light emitting technology based electroluminescence (EL) is a thin flexible light source that can be produced in sizes from about 600mm down to a few millimetres. Where should they be used?
Innovel lamps can be made from a single element for backlighting LCD displays for example. Light is emitted evenly [...]
Original article date: January 2000
The SD250 battery disconnection switch combines a 250A DC manual disconnect switch and a coil-operated contactor in a single unit. Alan Quinn takes a closer look.
Modern battery-powered electric vehicles are inherently very reliable and safe, but even when sophisticated electronic controllers are used, you want to have a means of disconnecting [...]
Original article date: September 1998
by Hans-Jurgen Wochian, Product Manager, Non-Portable Systems, Kontron Elektronik
While the development of software and electronics made enormous progress, the mechanics of the PC remained largely unchanged, even up to the present day. The interior of a PC still contains screws and metal plates. A fan blows air through a more or [...]
Original article date: April 2000
Ian McLeod of Papst, explains why doubling the number of fans doesn’t always produce the desired results
The idea of mounting two fans in series or parallel often arises when one fan isn’t up to the task of cooling and a larger one just won’t fit. The only time two fans of [...]
Original article date: June 2000
With the amount of data being carried over the internet doubling every 100 days, what are the implications for networking enclosures, reflects APW’s MARCUS EDWARDS.
Appropriate cable management is the key to any high performance network. Ever-higher bandwidths are being achieved in copper cabling with the development of Categories 5, 5e, 6 [...]
Original article date: February 2000
Are you having problems with condensation? MARK JONES from OEM Automatic is your guide through the various types of condensation and how to deal with them
Careful thermal management of the internal environmental air has become an essential factor, because of increasing demands for extending the life of enclosed control systems.
One important [...]
Original article date: April 1996
What are forms of separation and why are they important? Paul Markham product manager for low-voltage devices at Merlin Gerin provides the answers.
National Annex NC to BS EN 60439-1 the new British Standard for switchboards is all about forms of separation.
But why separate the components making up a switchboard? Why not [...]
Original article date: October 1996
Mark Knightley of CKS maintains that keyboards must retain their reliability in harsh environments even when being hosed down!
In recent years ruggedisation and environmental protection have enabled even the most sophisticated electronic equipment to be installed on the factory floor. Today computer-based systems are routinely near such ‘dirty’ processes as steel [...]