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There will be a Northeast Product Safety Society / CNEC Product Safety Engineering Society meeting on tomorrow, February 27th, 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. Robert Johnson, President of ITE Safety Consulting, will present this month’s topic concerning GFCIs and AFCIs. 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. Bob Johnson offers product safety engineering consulting as ITE Safety Consulting. Bob offers design assistance in the field of product safety during the product design and development cycles, specializing in IEC 60950 and its derivative standards in the field of Information Technology Equipment. He is quite active in standards writing committees as a member of NFPA 70 code panel 12 (National Electrical Code) representing Information Technology Industry Council, has been active in IEC TC108 and UL's STPs on 60950, 60320, and 1283. Bob has been a member of Northeast Product Safety Society from its beginning and is now on the NPSS advisory committee. Bob’s presentation outline is: GFCIs How they work Where they are required Impact on electrocutions Cost, implementation Problems: false trips, failures AFCIs Their origin (product safety engineers) How they work Where they are required Cost, implementation Problems 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 paul...@yahoo.com. 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 2008 NPSS meeting schedule is available on the NPSS website at http://www.nepss.net/Calendar.html. Further information about the Northeast Product Safety Society and how to become a member is available at http://www.nepss.net. You can also contact one of the NPSS officers via links on the NPSS web site. 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 matthew.campane...@motorola.com 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 emc-p...@ieee.org 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 emcp...@ptcnh.net Mike Cantwell mcantw...@ieee.org For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org David Heald: emc-p...@daveheald.com All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
