A comprehensive 212-page guide, Interpreting the Requirements of Articles 500-516 of the NEC® was put together by Emerson’s Appleton brand team to offer extensive help in determining NEC requirements for the use of electrical products in hazardous locations.
Emerson's Edward Brann presented, Simplify Connected Lighting for Hazardous Locations with Appleton and Plantweb at the 2019 Emerson Exchange conference. Ed opened describing the evolution of hazardous area lighting. Typically standard lighting stays on 24x7 which...
Emerson's Anthony Di Domenico and Ajay Tripathi presented on Zone 1 hazardous lighting solutions at the 2018 Emerson Exchange conference. LED light sources contain no pressurized gas, hot filaments or arc sources. They also don't require frequent service or...
This is one for those electrical engineers out there. When I was interning on offshore oil & gas platforms in my college years back in the 1980s, I learned there was a lot more than just making an electrical connection between electrical devices (motors, sensors,...
If your process includes hazardous locations, you can appreciate the extra care that must be taken with the wiring to instrumentation located in these areas. And ongoing testing of these transmitters and final control elements poses challenges as well. In a Control...
My ControlGlobal - The Great Kanduski: Best Practices in Industrial Networking RSS feed alerted me to a post, Antennas - Wireless Achilles Heel? As the title implies, it raises the question about antennas on wireless devices when installed in hazardous areas. The post...
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