Copper Wire Engineering Principles

This lecture will present insight into the fundamental properties of copper wire and its design to a broad range of applications. There will be an examination of the language of copper wire, a demonstraion of the fundamentals that are elucidated by that language, a look at the logarithmic properties of the copper wire tables, a useful memorization techniques for making it easier to work with those tables, a discussion of wire size selection criteria verus a variety of applications, a look at printed circuit traces and their allowable current levels plus a discussion of the NEC code and fuse specifications.

Speaker Bio:

Martin Kanner has extensive experience in the fields of motion control, switching supplies, feedback and feed-forward control systems. He holds three degrees, a BSAE, a BSEE, and an MSEE, all from New York University. He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi honorary societies and holds three patents.

Attention Professional Engineers: An application for .2 CEU credits (equivalent to 2 PDHs) has been applied for and is pending. There will be no charge for these credits.

6:30 PM: Network with others over delicious food and soft drinks, so bring your appetite.

7:00 PM: Introductions, LICN announcements and presentation

Between our normal non-Meetup crowd and those on this Meetup list, we expect to have a good 40 or so people attending, so bring your business cards to share when networking.

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