Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

  • Congratulations cowski on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Recent content by Gavtech

  1. Gavtech

    Stainless vs brass vs bronze for high current connections

    The application is for a temporary earth connection on a busbar @1500VDC 20kA. A colleague has been warned away from using stainless steel & steered towards brass or bronze. I would understand if the reason was due to conductivity for the equivalent cross sectional area, but it was in...
  2. Gavtech

    Is there a machine guard sensor for the detection of human contact?

    A client of mine has informed me of a sensor for safety applications which has got my head scratching. The application, he assures me, was on the guard of a docking/chop/mitre saw, which retracted the blade in the presence of human flesh. This was demonstrated by using a sausage and trying to...

Part and Inventory Search