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PEARL SAFE Newsletter - October 2009
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Low-Voltage Motor Control Centers May Have Safety Hazard
PEARL has updated its Electrical Safety Recall and Counterfeit Notices page to include a recent announcement from Allen Bradley about a fault with their CENTERLINE 2100 motor centers...Read More
 
Online Source for Outdated Electric Manuals
Check out this online repository for outdated electrical manuals...Read More

Down Market Makes Retrofits More Attractive
Electricians and designers are making their nut with retrofits instead of new construction. This article discusses the common challenges to retrofits, including how to accommodate existing electrical service. Some designers are REUSING fixtures and other electrical equipment. Let's hope they're using PEARL standards to make sure they're safe!...Read More

Keep Your Business Strong in Weak Markets
Maintaining customer relationships, scrutinizing cash flow, and keeping an extra eye on the chickens in the henhouse are all good ways electrical suppliers manage risk in difficult economic times. This article takes it the next step, concisely suggesting pitfalls and methods to strengthen your business when things get tough...Read More

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P&F, R.N.T. Pass PEARL Site Certifications
Electrical apparatus reconditioners, P&F Supply Co. (Grand Rapids, MI) and R.N.T. Supply Inc. (Jackson, MI), recently passed full site certifications from the Professional Electrical Apparatus Recyclers League (PEARL)...Read More
 
Extra! PEARL Breaking News: PEARL President Brian Corekin Talks About the Power of NINES, plus the Trade Association Committee Report
        Elec Adv October 2009
Tech Talk: Answer the Challenge for Chance to Win a 4GB IPOD!!
This Month's Question: The modern electrical manufacturing industry was born in the late 1870s. What was the first mass-produced electrical product? We'll draw a winner from all correct entries received by the end of October...Enter Contest CONGRATULATIONS to  Emre Schveighoffer, National Resource Management, Inc.
out of Canton, MA for winning last month's Tech Talk Challenge!
        Electrical Domains Oct 2009
PEARL Tips: How to Recondition Low Voltage Panelboards, Motor Control Centers, Switchboards, & Switchgear
Section 1300 of PEARL's Reconditioning standards covers several low-voltage devices including circuit breaker panelboards, switchboards and switchgear, and motor control centers. Although these devices are different in function, the inspection, reconditioning, and testing of all of these devices have enough in common that PEARL believes in appropriate to group them together under section 1300....Read More
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Issue: 7, Oct. 2009
In This Issue
P&F, R.N.T. Pass PEARL Site Certification
Win A 4GB IPOD!!
PEARL Tips: How to Recondition Low Voltage Apparatus
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