Electrical and Electronic Equipment

The new new low cost USB/PS2 stainless steel keyboard from RAFI GB is well suited for use in non-supervised areas and features many new technologies. The standard computer interfaces make them ideal for integration into almost every kind of application providing the benefits of robust construction and established means of data input.

Sensitive communications and electronic equipment housed in an outdoor location requires extra protection from external influences, such as temperature variations in order to maintain full functionality. Rittal have introduced a new series of enclosures, the CS Toptec outdoor range, which has been specifically designed to safeguard the internal components from the external environment.

Funkwerk Enterprise Communications (FEC) has announced a series of access point devices designed to enable WLANs to operate under extreme environmental conditions. These can include industrial manufacturing, transportation and outdoor applications such as building to building, where the need to protect against moisture and dust is paramount. The new devices are part of Funkwerk’s established range of industrial wireless products designed for networks in harsh environments.

Power-One and Magnetek have jointly announced an agreement to promote and distribute commercial and residential solar as well as small wind alternative energy inverters. This alliance will allow both companies to drive new growth opportunities and provide superior service and application support to alternative energy customers. By combining Power-One’s state-of-the-art product development and manufacturing capabilities with Magnetek’s well established distribution channels and proven applications and customer support expertise, the alliance will accelerate the availability of highly efficient power inverters to the industry.

Rittal RiLine NH on-load isolators provide safe, reliable isolation protection from down-stream electrical equipment. Available either with or without fuse monitoring, the isolators range from 100 to 630 amps (60mm), sizes 000 to 3 and can be easily mounted directly onto Rittal’s range of busbar systems.

The new line of Southco® PT Tubular-Key Cam Locks brings a higher level of security to the simplicity of cam lock applications. It features the enhanced performance of a 7-pin tumbler lock design and tubular keys to provide an affordable solution that makes it more difficult to compromise the lock. Multiple housing and cam options make it easy to satisfy a wide variety of enclosure door configurations in applications ranging from industrial, electronics, or medical equipment to consumer applications such as furniture, recreation vehicles, or vending equipment in self-service environments.

The Buccaneer Antenna is a robust and completely waterproof medium gain antenna specifically developed for the 2.4 to 2.5GHz frequency band.

Addressing the needs of system designers needing to maximise the density of their circuit and board level mixed-signal interconnects, the range of D-Sub connectors from Eleading Technologies (HK) Ltd has been enlarged to cover an limitless number of permutations, with a choice of regular signal pins for soldering, wire-wrap or PCB mount; high current power contacts for 10A, 20A & 40A, and RF coaxial inserts for use to 2GHz, spaced accordingly to fit industry standard 9, 15, 25, 26, 37 or 50 pin D-Sub shell sizes.

Inertial Aerosystems announce the availability of a new affordable miniature electronic board module for personnel on foot that provides the user’s position relative to a preselected point. Manufactured by US based Honeywell, the Dead Reckoning Module (DRM) 4000 gives an accurate position derived from dead reckoning data and external GPS NMEA data disciplined by an internal Kalman filter.

A new RJ45 Ethernet module has been added to the HARTING Han-Modular® family of heavy-duty industrial connectors.