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Improving power connection reliability

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No matter what the application, good power connections are critical to safety and performance One of the most important aspects of bringing power to any electrical installation is having solid connections. Even with the best of designs, if the electrical connections don’t hold up over time, you are going to be faced with a serious problem. What makes this seemingly simple part of the installation so prone to difficulty? It boils down to two things: ensuring proper connections at the time of installation, and ensuring those connections remain secure over time – which can be more challenging than you might first think. First, proper installation Power equipment, such as circuit breakers , frequently is designed with screw connections to allow a good, tight field connection. Such equipment always includes manufacturer specifications for the torque required to make solid connections. Installers know these specifications, but sometimes find it inconvenient to be as meticulous about the ...

EFF: New Witness and New Experts Bolster Our Jewel Case As We Fight Government’s Latest Attempt to Derail Lawsuit Challenging Unconstitutional NSA Spying

New Witness and New Experts Bolster Our Jewel Case As We Fight Government’s Latest Attempt to Derail Lawsuit Challenging Unconstitutional NSA Spying EFF has presented its full evidentiary case that the five ordinary Americans who are plaintiffs in Jewel v. NSA were among the hundreds of millions of nonsuspect Americans whose communications and communications records have been touched by the government’s mass surveillance regimes . This presentation includes a new whistleblower and three additional expert witnesses—Professor Matthew Blaze , Dr. Brian Reid , and former Chief Technologist at the Federal Trade Commission Ashkan Soltani —along with AT&T documents and witnesses we first revealed in 2006. We also marshalled key portions of the now massive amount of public admissions by the U.S. government and the most recent example of public judicial review in the Big Brother Watch case in Europe. The goal is to convince a federal judge that the NSA’s current claims of secrecy s...