While change often comes slowly in the vast military industrial complex, there’s often good reason for that. That’s at least partly because battlefield conditions continue to dictate many of the same unique and complex operating requirements for vehicles, machines, guns, and support equipment that they
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Embry Riddle Aeronautical University has long been a staple of aviation education across the United States. Formed in 1925, It is the largest accredited university system specializing in aviation and aerospace. It has multiple locations with its primary campus residing in Daytona, Florida. One of the
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Thermal switches were originally designed to be reliable, standalone, systems that encompassed both a sensing element, and a switch. At a chosen set-point these thermocouple devices would reliably close or open a contact allowing for critical systems to be protected or activated. They were
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CPI’s X1 thermal switch is being increasingly used by both American and European avionics manufacturers and integrators as their thermal switch of choice for spot detection of overtemperature conditions in systems throughout the aircraft. Recent integrations include FAA approval as a Fenwal replacement on Gulfstream
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The International Space Station (ISS) may be one of the most underappreciated technological (and geopolitical) marvels on, or off the planet. While it has been under development since the 1990’s it is actually the joint effort of five different space agencies representing 15 countries, all
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The vast majority of thermal switch applications we get have to do with keeping things from getting too hot. Just a few examples of this include:
- Gally fire detection
- Avionics Bay Over Temperature
- Brake over temperature warnings
- Hydraulic fluid temperature monitoring
- Engine oil over temperature Read More...
If you’re a manufacturer of high pressure, high horsepower industrial air compressors, like the kind that might be used in large drilling or mining operations, you need to know that the Mine Safety and Health Administration has new safety requirements affecting high horsepower, recirculating type
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When CPI started making thermal switches for the Military in the 40’s, there really wasn’t any other choice. Thermocouple based switches with variable set-points and various temperature ranges of operation were made using the thermocouple materials of the day, mostly copper, aluminum, and chrome. The
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Almost every large commercial machine with an engine or motor of some sort has a system for monitoring temperature. Critical systems that are thermally controlled can be designed to shut down or throttle operation to prevent system failure or deliver cooling fluids that bring operation
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If you work at TARDEC (the Tank and Automotive Research Development Center) you pretty much spend all day thinking about how to increase the survivability of ground vehicles during combat operations. In fact, the folks at TARDEC have created a nice metaphor to explain levels of
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