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1/4" Shorter
Demand often dictates developments direction. In this case, a large potential customer requested that Dalton Electric Heating supply a ¼ x 1" Watt-Flex® cartridge heater. Our minimum length has been 1¼" for 20+ years, resulting from our standard manufacturing techniques.
Paul Trainor, Mgr. Technical Services discussed the challenge with Ted Mitchell, who developed the tooling necessary to manufacture the shortened heater. The first manufacturing run yield was 20 for 20.
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1/4 inch x 1 inch Watt-Flex® Cartridge Heater |
Pictured above, this heater is specified at 12 volts and carries a low wattage spec. It can be supplied at 120 volts, but the wattage required to give us a tolerable resistance wire also gives us a higher watt density.
Contact your Regional Manager to discuss, if you have an application for this little heater. And, certainly talk with us if you have any unique application problem that needs a unique solution !!! We will be looking at other diameters in the future to determine if their minimum lengths can be
shortened using similar tooling.
Friday Funnies
It was already late fall and the Indians on a remote reservation in South Dakota asked their new chief if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild. Since he was a chief in a modern society he had never been taught the old secrets.
When he looked at the sky he couldn't tell what the winter was going to be like. Nevertheless, to be on the safe side, he told his tribe that the winter was indeed going to be cold and that the members of the village should collect firewood to be prepared.
But being a practical leader, after several days he got an idea. He went to the phone booth, called the National Weather Service and asked, "Is the coming winter going to be cold?"
"It looks like this winter is going to be quite cold," the meteorologist at the weather service responded.
So the chief went back to his people and told them to collect even more firewood in order to be prepared. A week later he called the National Weather Service again. "Does it still look like it is going to be a very cold winter?"
"Yes," the man at National Weather Service again replied, "it's going to be a very cold winter."
The chief again went back to his people and ordered them to collect every scrap of firewood they could find.
Two weeks later the chief called the National Weather Service again."Are you absolutely sure that the winter is going to be very cold?"
"Absolutely," the man replied. "It's looking more and more like it is going to be one of the coldest winters we've ever seen."
"How can you be so sure?" the chief asked.
"Because," the weatherman replied, "the Indians are collecting firewood like crazy."
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