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NEWSLETTER

Sunday, July 6, 2003

Record intact

Chuck Stapleman and Jim Lawrence kept their record intact by again capturing the booby prize at the annual ISA golf outing at MidVallee in Kaukauna. Jim and Chuck have managed to come in last every year that this tournament has been held, except for twice; and Chuck teamed with Tom Fraley to take last place once. Some people just take more time to practice.

Ethernet Based PLC

Intelligent Instrumentation has reinvented itself as a maker of open architecture programmable logic controllers. Their new EDAS CE is a Windows CE based PLC that is very economical and easy to use if you have any kind of analog I/O to deal with. We can provide the engineering and programming. We now have a multifunction EDAS as part of our demo pool. We have added programs to it for monitoring a heat soak furnace and for keeping track of a Williamson Pro100 infrared pyrometer.

New On-Line Catalog

We now have our own on-line catalog page at On-Line Catalog Try it out. We will be building it up as we go along. So far we are offering a vibration meter and a digital pressure guage and vibration monitoring systems.

Protect Your Data

We now have three product lines to protect your data. Control Concepts, the maker of Islatrol, has TVSS products that keep spikes and noise from getting into your signal or data lines. These very economical products supress the disturbances. Dataforth makes signal conditioners for your signal lines and limited distance modems for your data communications to isolate and amplify your important information. S.I. Tech has fiber optic interface products to eliminate any noise or ground loops that may exist.

Plug-And-Play Sensors

Wilcoxon has joined with National Instruments and the Plug and Play sensor program with a new feature on their more popular sensors called Transducer Electronic Data Sheets (TEDS) that conform to the IEEE P1451.4 standard. Companies involved in this program will now have automatically configured measurement and automation systems for vibration measurements. From Wilcoxon it is a $35 option on the 786A, 787A, 793, 797, 797L, & 797V sensors. You can order the whole package and or the new sensors from Stapleman Corporation.

Ruggedized Fiber Optic Interface

S.I.Tech has a new ruggedized mini bit-driver to interface an RS232 port to fiber optic cable. This new instrument can handle -40 degF to +175 degF and provides IEC 801 surge protection. It was originally designed for use in power company substations, but it can be used anywhere that commercial grade instruments will not handle the environment.

Kobold has new catalogs

Kobold has three new catalogs: An overview of all four product lines - flow, level, pressure and temperature; and full catalogs on flow and level. We have them in stock. Let me know if you want one or more.

OpTest FQA to Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University has just contracted with OpTest for a new Hi Resolution Fiber Quality Analyzer to be delivered in September. The state-of-the-art analyzer will be used in their new paper technology lab.