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Material Considerations for Small-Appliance Design
Advancements in polymers in recent years are expanding the capacities of cooking appliances. Lightweight, tough plastics are catching up to the dishwasher durability and surface integrity of glass, but are consumers ready to pay more for it?

by Emmett O’Brien


Refrigeration Motors and Motor Efficiencies
The choice of a refrigeration motor is much bigger than a hum, a whir, or a whine. Electronically communicated motors are beginning to challenge shaded pole and PSC motors, but issues with reliability and motor surge currents, some real, some perceived, may be holding ECMs back.

by Herschel Blackburn

Simpler Solutions
Two case studies highlight how industrial and commercial designers can apply old engineering concepts to new problems.

by Hemant Kale
Joy Siegel

Understand Coating Thickness Measurement Test Methods
Develop a working knowledge of the test methods related to coating thickness measurement and the instruments available for both common and complex applications.

by Paul Lomax

Consolidation, or Better Design?
Sometime around 1920, so my grandmother said, it was believed that everything that could be invented had been. An explosion of consumer goods in that decade had made everything from telephones to toaster ovens to vacuum cleaners and automatic washing machines—things nobody had even heard of a few decades earlier—must-own items for every respectable household.

by Seth Fisher

TDK-EPC
New MKP and MKT film capacitors with low insertion heights have a lead spacing of 37.5 mm feature insertion heights of only 15 or 19 mm. The components are designed for rated voltages of between 63 and 2000 V DC or 250 to 400 V AC. Their capacitance ranges from 0.1 to 82 µF. Depending on type and technology (MKT or MKP), these capacitors are designed for maximum operating temperatures of 105, 110 or 125 °C. Visit www.epcos.com/film_capacitors

E-Switch
The small 500R series slide switch offers IP67 sealing protection and comes in up to three positions. Designers can choose between on-off-on, and on-none-on options, and SPDT and DPDT switch functions. This slide switch offers right-angle or thru-hole termination options and comes standard with gold contacts and an epoxy seal. Visit www.e-switch.com















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