All, NOTE – Location Change For The October 25th NPSS Meeting
Location: Holiday Inn Boxborough Woods 242 Adams Place Boxborough, MA 01719 There will be a Northeast Product Safety Society / CNEC Product Safety Engineering Society meeting next Wednesday, October 25th, at The Holiday Inn, Boxborough MA. A social hour with light refreshments will begin at 7:00 PM and the technical meeting will start at 7:30 PM. Carl Lindquist, VP of New Product Development at San-O Industrial Corporation, will present this month’s topic concerning overcurrent protection design. If you will be in the area, please feel free to join us as advanced notice or membership in NPSS or IEEE PSES is not required. Mr. Lindquist has worked in the circuit protection field for nearly 40 years, starting as a Development Engineer at Western Electric Headquarters Staff Purchasing in New York City. He joined San-O Industrial in 1980. In 1998 he authored a 75 page chapter on “Overcurrent Protective Components” in the Passive Electronic Component Handbook, McGraw-Hill. Carl has been a member of the IEEE - Surge Protective Devices Committee (SPDC) for over 15 years, chairs a subcommittee at the Electronic Component Assemblies & Materials Association (EIA/ECA Passive Components Committee) and chairs a working group established to generate a new safety standard for telecommunications overcurrent lightning surge withstand protectors at the Telecommunications Industries Association (TIA TR41). He is also a Senior Member of the American Society for Quality. Overcurrent protection design and selection are often overlooked by design engineers during new product development. Those responsible for designing circuits using overcurrent protectors, as well as those purchasing such protectors, often misinterpret specified parameters and “equivalent” devices when seeking primary and secondary sources. Mr. Lindquist’s presentation will provide a brief overview of various types of overcurrent protectors, including fuses, PTC’s, circuit breakers, etc. The discussion will concentrate on fuse design, the relative strengths and weaknesses of different types of fuse designs, important protector parameters and documentation recommendations. Our meeting notices are also listed in the IEEE NH Section web site under the latest newsletter topic. This month’s notice is on page 4 at http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r1/new_hampshire/Docs/NL200610.pdf If you or anyone you know would like to give a product safety technical presentation, please contact Paul Smith, our meeting scheduler, by email at [email protected]. A technical presentation should be 45 to 60 minutes in duration and be related to product safety. Although the presentation may reference your company and it’s services, the presentation must not be simply company advertising. We would also appreciate any slides or handout materials be made available for posting on the NPSS web site. Releasing presentation materials for posting is desired but not a requirement to make a presentation. The 2006 NPSS meeting schedule is available on the NPSS website at http://www.nepss.org/meetings/NPSS_2006-7_Calendar.html. Further information about the Northeast Product Safety Society and how to become a member is available at http://www.nepss.org. You can also contact one of the NPSS officers via links on the NPSS web site. If you haven’t updated your contact and email address information this year, please update it at http://www.nepss.org/membership/profileupdate.html. Directions: >From Route 495 North or South, take Exit 28 to Route 111 East Turn right onto Adams Place (approximately 500 feet from Route 495 North) The Holiday Inn is the last building on the left. Regards, Matt Campanella NPSS Secretary Compliance Engineer Motorola, Inc. Broadband Communications Sector 111 Locke Drive Marlborough, MA 01752 (508) 786-7629 Direct (508) 786-7500 Main (508) 480-6332 Fax [email protected] email - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: [email protected] David Heald: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________
