Electrical/Electronic Monthly
Electrical/Electronic Monthly
The latest information on electrical and electronic components December 11, 2007

In this issue of the Electrical & Electronic Newsletter from Machine Design there are articles on software that helps build stock-cars, energy-stingy coolers, and a new unmanned aircraft that runs on hydrogen.

The highlighted products are Rohs-compliant enclosures, a new off-road LED work light, and rugged enclosures.

Be sure to check out the industry update to find out about MACHINE DESIGN's Holiday lighting contest!

Thanks for reading and have a Happy Holiday!

Julie Kalista
Articles

Software helps build a 244-mph stock car
Driver Russ Wicks with American Challenge Inc., Bellevue, Wash., recently set the world stock-car speed record by hitting 244.9 mph in a Nascar Daytona Series 2007 Dodge Charger on the Bonneville Salt Flats. This shattered the 222.623-mph record he set last year. Wicks credits software from Autodesk Inc., including online collaboration and design- review packages, for getting the car in shape for its run. "Our company focuses on breaking land and water worldspeed records," says Wicks.
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Energy-stingy coolers
Despite using as little as one-eighth the power of traditional coolers or chiller systems, many industries have yet to adopt evaporative cooling. But technology from Azevap, LLC, Phoenix, Ariz., that cools despite increased wet-bulb temperature and relative humidity could put evaporative coolers on the fast track. A new suite of coolers with Opto 22 control hardware addresses scaling and reliability issues of other water-level control systems.
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Getting high on hydrogen
Hale, Boeing's High Altitude Long Endurance unmanned aircraft, recently completed ground testing of its hydrogen fueled engine which was developed by the Ford Motor Co. The engine, a multistage turbocharged internal-combustion design, ran for four days straight in a controlled chamber. (Gas versions of the same engine are used in Ford’s Fusion and Escape Hybrid vehicles.) For three days of the test, the chamber replicated conditions at 65,000 ft. The engine is said to have demonstrated better than expected fuel economy and showed complete control of torque and airflow across the engine's operating range.
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New Products

Rohs-Compliant Enclosures
The 176-page 4.0 Enclosure Catalog covers eight RoHS-compliant, corrosion-resistant polycarbonate enclosure families. Designed for industrial, instrumentation, process-control, outdoor, and hostile-environment applications, the catalog covers each product family with photos, detailed drawings in both inch and metric, and ordering information. An online PDF catalog is also available.
More Information:
Fibox Enclosures

Rugged Enclosures
Rugged electronic enclosures for commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products are engineered using lightweight aluminum with welded seam construction. The units can be configured with a shock and vibration-isolated subchassis and a temperature-control system that fully shields contents from extreme temperatures.
More Information:
Carlo Gavazzi Computing Solutions

Off-road LED work light
The 9450 Remote Area Lighting System (RALS), a rapiddeploying emergency area light, is self-contained inside a 1510 Protector case. The system assembles in minutes and features a multiangle telescoping light tower that reaches up to 8 ft in the air, a detachable bank of sixteen 1-W LEDs that generate up to 1,280 lumens of light, and a removable diffuser filter. Removing the diffuser lets the light be used as a high-powered spot beam. A 17-A-hr rechargeable battery offers up to 9 hr of peak light and recharges in 6 hr. An auxiliary socket can deliver an emergency charge to any 12-V device.
More Information:
Pelican Products Inc.

News from MD

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UPCOMING WEBCASTS

Discovering Direct Digital Manufacturing: Impact and Opportunity
Sponsored by RedEye RPM
DATE: December 12, 2007
TIME: 2:00pm ET

Designers face difficult design challenges every day and each issue has different technological options for a solution, but no one technology works every where, every time. RedEye RPM, a business unit of Stratasys, Inc. has invited Todd Grimm, a well known rapid prototyping consultant, to discuss different technologies, leading to a closer look at where DDM (Direct Digital Manufacturing) technology works and why. The presentation will cut through the confusion to provide designers and manufacturing engineers the data they need to move in the right direction for their projects.

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Introduction to Direct Gear Design
Sponsored by AKGears
DATE: January 16th, 2008
TIME: 2:00pm ET

Invention of the gear hobbing process about 150 years ago revolutionized not only gear fabrication, but also gear design. The cutting edge of the hob presents the generating gear rack. The standard universal gear design approach provides gear interchangeability and reduces tooling inventory, however, it also constrains performance for particular gear applications.

This webcast presents the Direct Gear Design method — an alternative approach to traditional analysis and design of involute gears, which separates gear geometry definition from the generating rack and tool selection to maximize gear transmission performance for a particular product and application.

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Industry Update

String us along on your holiday lighting escapade
If you devote more thought to your outdoor Christmas lights than your retirement plans, we want to hear from you. Post a video of your illuminating derring do on YouTube (youtube.com) and send a link to mdeditor@penton.com. We’ll announce the winners in our December issue and post links to the best videos on machinedesign.com. Deadline for submission is December 26th.

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