Lately it feels like there is a race between the widespread improvement and adoption of renewable energy sources, and the worst effects of a rapidly warming planet. We're not there yet but the dedicated and intelligent work of so many
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Sometimes clients come to us because they have a small need for switches on an outdoor application and want to design in a sealed switch that they won’t ever have to worry about. A switch that is truly
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CPI Thermal Switches are solving fire and heat detection applications for a large variety of Military and Non-Military Applications. Typically used for these applications is our Rod & Tube line of Thermal switches owing to several important operational characteristics.
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Every day in the US, you'll see outriggers used in thousands of vehicle applications. Sometimes referred to as "stabilizers," these small but powerful hydraulic systems do exactly that: provide stability and compensation for abnormal or uncentered loads during performance of
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Military hardware never stops evolving, because threats never stop evolving. Yet proven technology like CPI thermal and waterproof switches continue to be designed into modern hardware. It comes back to survivability and endurance, and we pretty much own that.
Whether for
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In the world of work trucks, there are literally hundreds of applications for lifts of some kind. These can be either hydraulic or electric and can be found on everything from your commonly used forklift, to scissor lifts, to liftgates
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Putting a precision linear sensor into a subsea environment is one of the most difficult challenges in the sensing world. Sensors produce signals and they are inherently electronics-based devices. Liquid immersion is the enemy of all things electronic,
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To understand the unique product line that has evolved at CPI you'd have to understand the history under which that happened. Like many US companies, CPI has a rich and long history which we are proud of and which informs
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In the movie "Oppenheimer" one of the key plot points is the discussion of the development of the hydrogen bomb vs. the original atomic bomb. While the atomic bomb operates on nuclear fission, the hydrogen bomb is both a fission
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CPI - Keeping Military Personnel Safe for almost 80 Years
Unless you are a rabid CPI company history buff, (like us) you may not know that CPI’s original switch parts developed back in 1946, were thermal switches designed for transport vehicles
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