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11May 201915 Mar 2020

Line and Load Reactors Basics

By TCI Trans-Coil. Reactors can protect both motors and variable frequency drives (VFDs) from harmful current and voltage spikes. Reactors…

9May 201915 Mar 2020

Measuring and Monitoring Relays Application Guide

By Omron Automation. Measuring and monitoring relays are like automobile assurance. Even if you are careful, car accidents will occur.…

28Apr 201915 Mar 2020

How To Maintain A VFD Drive

By Dave Polka, ABB. Do you know how to maintain variable frequency drives (VFDs)? Doing so is easier than you…

Why Non-contact Sensors are So Named And their really big advantages

By Ray Peacock At the risk of being insensitive by saying this sounds like a ‘Duh” moment let’s not. Let’s explore just what it means and why it is significant,…

How does a Noren heat pipe work?

5 Jan 202016 May 2020

By Ray Peacock Heat pipes are transport mechanisms that can carry heat fluxes ranging from 10 W/cm2 to 20 KW/cm2 at a very fast speed. Essentially, they can be considered…

Relay Contact Materials

22 Dec 201922 Dec 2019

By Finder Many relay users take a standard product, and with it, the standard offering with respect to contact material. More often than not they are perfectly happy - never…

Encoder Glossary

20 Oct 201920 Jan 2020

By SICK/Stegmann Absolute encodersAbsolute encoders generate information about position, angle and rotation counts in type-specific angle steps. For this, a unique code pattern is assigned to each angle increment. The…

Throw away your relays

29 Aug 201915 Aug 2020

By ABB Low Voltage If you appreciate the wisdom of combining the fax, scan, and copy functions into a single device, the benefits of combining the function of relays and…

Drives

Cost benefits of AC drives

By ABB. In addition to their technical advantages, AC drives also provide many cost benefits. In this post, these benefits are reviewed, with the costs divided into investment, installation and…

Introduction to relays

24 Jul 201915 Mar 2020

By OMRON. What are relays? In a very basic sense, a relay is simply a binary actuator. At any point in time it has one of two steady states -…

Did you know? Omron’s IP67G-rated sensors are immune to damage from cutting oil

19 Jul 201921 Jul 2019

By OMRON. Cutting oil is a mainstay of industries that involve metalworking, but it can be extremely harsh on delicate technologies like sensors. In fact, 30% of component failures are…

Technical Explanation for Proximity Sensors

26 May 201915 Mar 2020

By OMRON. What is a proximity sensor? "Proximity Sensor" includes all sensors that perform non-contact detection in comparison to sensors, such as limit switches, that detect objects by physically contacting…

The Solid State Advantage

2 May 201914 Jul 2019

By OMRON Automation. A solid-state relay (SSR) is an electronic switching device that switches on or off when a small external voltage is applied across its control terminals. SSRs consist…