The answer to this question could be “it depends”, but I’m going to go right out to end of the tree limb and say the answer is “yes”, voltage regulators are necessary, even here in the United States where the delivery of power is pretty consistent. Consistent to the extent […]
Is your industrial touch screen monitor misbehaving? Flickering? Not responding? Most resistive touch screens are designed to last for more than 35 million touches in one spot before failing, as much as 4 times longer lasting than the display. That sounds like a helluva lot of touches but that depends on the application. […]
Here on the east coast we are not only roasting from the heat, but simmering like a pot roast in the humidity. And there’s no end in sight. Which, in my sweaty misery, reminds me of the nasty effects of heat on your industrial electronics. Do you know what they […]
No power light on board. No LCD on logic board. CNC not working. Work halted. These are words no manufacturer of any size wants to see or hear. It is the sound of work stopping – a mighty bad sound.
Making a big investment in new automation equipment may cause you to become paralyzed with fear of making a mistake. Buyer’s remorse is a gut-twisting feeling no one wants to have whether the item is as small as a new cell phone or a much larger purchase like a new […]
There are all kinds of keepers. Goal keepers, lion keepers, game keepers, scorekeepers, book keepers and, of course, the big fish that was “a keeper”. This morning, while having some intensely delicious coffee at The Filling Station, I met a new kind of keeper – the Gunpowder River Keeper. Yes, […]
Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and…power supplies? Oh yeah…power supplies are everywhere and in everything. Ubiquitous and almost as necessary as oxygen, the underappreciated yeoman power supply runs the motors of your life, from the microscopic to the 40,000 volt monster variety.
Americans enjoy freedom like no other country in the world. We embrace freedom in every way possible and guard it with our very lives. Whether your ancestors sacrificed their blood to create a free country in 1776 or they arrived on America’s shores in later centuries to follow their dream […]
