“It is as easy as changing a light bulb,” says Steven J. Briggs, vice president of marketing and global product management with GE Consumer & Industrial’s LED business, Lumination, LLC. “Leading lighting designers and architects are on the record with concerns about integrated LED fixture upgradeability and serviceability. Some won’t specify an integrated LED fixture. This is GE’s answer. It’s future-proof and market-ready."

Welding System
The TerraWeld Exothermic Welding System provides permanent welded connections for lightning protection and grounding systems. Alltec Corp.’s Protection Pyramid, a three-tiered complete facility protection approach for grounding solutions, surge suppression and lightning protection, relies on TerraWeld® to create electrical connections that will remain uniformly conductive. TerraWeld® helps create circuits that carry the full amplitude of a short circuit safely to the ground. Alltec Corp.

Industrial-grade CFL Fixture
The maintenance-free ProSeries GU24 Utility Light is designed to generate annual savings of approximately $30 per fixture or more compared to incandescent lighting fixtures. With an EPAct tax deduction and rebates from local utilities or rural electric co-ops, the typical return on the lighting retrofit investment averages less than two years. In some instances the lighting incentive application rebate for existing buildings can be as much as $30 per fixture when replacing an incandescent lamp with a GU24 compact fluorescent lamp (CFL). The tax deduction can be up to $.60/square foot when the ProSeries™ GU24 Utility Light Fixture is designed into a new or retrofitted buildings. According to EPCO President Jack Schuster, “Our new fixture not only offers up to 75 percent energy savings, but it also saves installation time and maintenance costs. It's the only one-piece GU24 single-lamp compact fluorescent fixture specifically designed to withstand the rigors of applications in damp and wet locations.” Engineered Products Co.

Junction Box
The HomeRunner Box is designed specifically for commercial construction applications that require a spacious, flexible junction box for terminating home run cable and other electrical wiring. As the latest addition to the Cooper Crouse-Hinds PRE-formance™ family of products, it provides contractors with significant cost savings and flexibility on the job site. The HomeRunner is an 8-inch x 8-inch screw-cover junction box that contains a patented external clamping system designed for terminating MC/AC or non-metallic sheathed cable and is suitable for metal or wood stud applications.
HomeRunner’s large cubic capacity (177 cu. in.) provides contractors with plenty of room to run multiple circuits off of a single home run cable. Its innovative, patented, labor-saving integral clamping system eliminates the need to punch holes in the enclosure to install fittings. It’s designed to allow for multiple mounting options and numerous cable types, sizes and/or configurations, providing the flexibility of a custom design in a standard off-the-shelf product. www.crouse-hinds.com