NEWBURYPORT, MA (November 1, 2012) – Mersen, formerly Ferraz Shawmut, recently published a new Protection Intelligence Quotient (PIQ) Quiz understanding conductor sizing for laminated bus bars. This is the latest quiz in an ongoing program that challenges participants to see if they’re up to speed on the best practices in electrical safety and reliability. The quiz is online at http://ep-us.mersen.com/PIQ. Participants may take the quiz and enter to win a $100 gift card. Three winners are selected every month, and no purchase is necessary.
Bus bars can improve reliability, increase capacitance, and eliminate wiring errors while at the same time reducing systems costs. This latest PIQ examines these considerations and looks at products bundled for various applications. With the educational PIQ program, design engineers, specifiers, electrical professionals, and equipment manufacturers can discover how much they know about the hazards that can harm people, equipment, and investments.
“We are clearly filling a need for electrical protection and safety information,” said Stephen Colvin, vice president of marketing at Mersen. “Many visitors take the latest quiz, and then move on to take earlier archived quizzes on topics such as arc flash hazard protection, overvoltage protection, and selective coordination.” To review earlier quizzes and download the PIQ Quiz Notes visit http://ep-us.mersen.com/PIQArchive.
For further details on the PIQ Quiz program, please send a request to info.nby@mersen.com. The PIQ quiz program runs through December 31, 2013.
About Mersen
Mersen, formerly Ferraz Shawmut, is worldwide expert in high-performance materials for extreme environments and in the reliability and safety of electrical installations. Drawing on a century of experience—and an ongoing commitment to critical research in electrical safety— it provides industrial, commercial, and OEM customers with innovative products and unsurpassed technical support. The electrical and circuit protection division provides a comprehensive line of current-limiting fuses (low voltage, general purpose, medium voltage, semiconductor, miniature and glass, and special purpose) and accessories, fuse blocks and holders, power distribution blocks, low voltage disconnect switches, surge protection, high power switches, laminated bus bar, heatsinks, thermal management, and more. Amp-Trap® High-Speed Class J (HSJ) fuses, TPMOV® Technology, and the SmartSpot® open-fuse indicator are a few of the company’s latest innovations. For more information, call (978) 462-6662 or visit http://ep-us.mersen.com.
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Today’s power distribution systems impose particular demands on engineers, who constantly must make the most efficient use of space (more power in smaller packages) and deal with the potential negative effects of vibration in an assembly. The method most favored by Eldre begins with a self-clinching fastener mounted on the bus bar.
