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July 2009              Circulation 17,000+ World-wide                Edition # 93

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Activity for Winter

I wish everyone well at this time.

On the home front I have just finished building a horse barn for the 3 horses we have. They are happy now they can get out of the weather especially at night. Our old mare we are hoping is pregnant, she was left with a stallion for a few weeks and we should see signs in a few months if it was successful.

On the business front, we have had a good May and June, with June looking like back towards normal numbers again.

In addition we have been receiving a lot of new product announcements from our suppliers, so they are busy updating and renewing also. You will see this in this newsletter.

Maestro Wireless Products.

We have been selling Maestro Wireless products now for 5 years. The main product being the older Maestro 20 SMS/GPRS and the modern Model 100 GPRS modem with a TCP/IP stack, which has been popular.

They have just released a host of new product that many will be interested in. It allows the same SMS/GPRS function while allowing hardware plugin expansion for M2M with a GPS, Digital I/O, Analog In and of most interest is the ethernet extension to turn the product into a Router. Also a lower cost power adaptor reduces costs.

See more in the newsletter

A New Service

As we mentioned last month, we are finding many small start up companies are having difficulty exposing their products or services to the market.

Next Service - this is not a start up company but an essential business for startup companies with new products.

 Our hird exposure for this month is from Spectrum Labs, a New Zealand company that offers testing services:-

Introducing Spectrum Laboratories Ltd

Outline of services and options that Spectrum Laboratories, an electrical safety testing laboratory provides for its customers.

What is the value of a life? What is the damage to your brand as the result of a product recall? How much time, money and stress will it cost you?

Product testing is the most important thing that you can do to protect your brand from public fault and loss of life or property, saving you time and money in the process. If such a service is so important, who can you trust to test it right?

Spectrum Laboratories are IANZ accredited and renowned for meticulous service and technical expertise in the area of independent inspection and testing of electrical appliances, light industrial equipment and solid fuel burning appliances for manufacturers and importers throughout Australasia and the rest of the world.

In a controlled laboratory environment, Spectrum’s highly experienced technicians will search for all possible dangerous conditions, things like:

- inadequate earthing,

- incorrect thermoplastic materials,

- insufficient mains isolation,

- inadequate guarding from moving parts –

and will then report back with an endorsed report. And with both IANZ and TUV accreditation there is security and assurance in both the validity and suitability of these results.

Spectrum Laboratories offer a wide range of individual services and testing options including:

- arranging partial or full test reports for global manufacturers,

- importers or for regulatory authority approvals,

- a MEPS testing service for testing of external power supplies to the relevant AS/NZS Minimum Energy Performance Standards

- and Water Efficiency Testing (WELS) for Shower heads in accordance with AS/NZS 3662:2005

Spectrum can offer the service of technical compliance management. It includes the management of approval applications and the maintaining of Technical Construction Folders (Hard and soft copies) ensuring that all testing is up to date as required under the Australian and New Zealand approval schemes.

Spectrum Laboratories Ltd has recently employed more Compliance Engineers with up to 25 years of individual experience to service its expanded workload and to provide timely test reports for our customers. In 2004, the Laboratory was moved into new larger purpose built premises in the East Tamaki industrial estate that were more suited to the expansion of the Laboratory.

There is no second chance or substitute for safety. For peace of mind let Spectrum Laboratories take care of your product testing needs before it’s too late.

This link to the NZ governments Energy Safety Service gives details and requirements of the Electrical Appliance Safety Regime.

I am interested in this

Some Interesting Highlights for this month are:-

         LabJack - U6 - 16bit+ ADC, programmable gain amp, TCs and Bridges without any additional hardware.

         Rigol keeps expanding their scope range, now 4 Channels 200 MHZ 2Gs/Sec, excellent prices.

Commell pushing the embedded boundaries of Mini ITX with Intel Q45

Intel Core 2 Quad/Duo LGA775 up to 800/1066/1333 MHz,
 DDR3 up to 4GB, 2 x Giga LAN, VGA, 6 x SATA, HD Audio
3 x RS232 & 1 x RS232/422/485, DVI, LVDS, GPIO, 8 USB2.0
One PCI , 1 x Mini PCI

And Next
The " Little Bites eNewsletter "
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 Introducing Maestro
 

Maestro 100 

 Industrial Maestro

 Maestro Heritage

Quad Band RS-232 SMS/GPRS Modem
+TCP/IP Stack

Quad Band RS-232 SMS/GPRS Modem
+
PLC interfaces & functionality

Quad Band RS-232 SMS/GPRS/Edge/3G soon
DIO, AI, GPS, Ethernet Router

Smart Pack

 Come Alive

 Softools

Software for Maestro 100

  • Automatic TCP/UDP connection
  • Remote AT command through SMS
  • I/O Triggered AT command
  • Call screening
  • Modem status check and monitoring

Software for Maestro Industrial

  • intelligent reset functions
  • network reattachment
  • back up modes ensuring the best
    reliability in communication.

Software for Maestro Heritage

  • ARM 9 Tools
  • Open Platform
  • Easy to customize option board
  • Download Over The Air
  • Wireless gateway for Modbus RTU protocol
  • Modbus Master with SMS server
  • Modbus I/O
  • and much more

 Services

 Accessories

Facilities Management Solutions

End-to-end
manufacturing
service
for M2M products



 

 More Product News
 

 Wireless

 Comms

 PAC & PLCs

Digi - Green Wireless Competition 20K USD Prices
April 1, 2009 - March 31, 2010


MODBUS TCP to Serial RTU/ASCII Gateway

High Performance PAC

T&M Instruments

 SSR - Solid State Relays

 Embedded Micros

 Rigol 4 Channel 200MHZ 2Gs/s DSO

OPTO 22 New Product Range

Lowest Cost Rabbit - Minicore RCM 5700 pdf
Any new designs should be looking at the RCM5700

 UPS

 Frequency Converters

 Solar & Alternative Power

Gamatronic Redundant up to 250KVA

Soltec 3KVA -400KVA units
Single and Three Phase
50 - 60 - 400 HZ

  Wind Turbine
200watt - 100Kwatt

 Medical Biological

 Embedded ITX

 Data Acquisition

Microscopes for PCs


Dual Core ITX
Best pict I have at present

LabJack U6 low cost high end performance
 
     



MasTec Staff Contacts :-

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Pronunciation

 MasTec Ltd    

 Administration

 Saera.Moala@mastecnz.co.nz

Sara Moala

 Spot Buy Sales - All products

 Saera.Moala@mastecnz.co.nz

Sara Moala

 OEM accounts liason and logistics

 Saera.Moala@mastecnz.co.nz

Sara Moala

     

 OEM Automation Instrumentation Wireless Manager

 loyal.noronha@mastecnz.co.nz

Loyal Noronha

 Automation Instrumentation Wireless Sales

 loyal.noronha@mastecnz.co.nz

Loyal Noronha

     

 OEM LED Lighting Manager

 Saera.Moala@mastecnz.co.nz

Sara Moala

 LED Sales

 Saera.Moala@mastecnz.co.nz

Sara Moala

     

 OEM Power Manager

 dhara.pandya@mastecnz.co.nz

Dara Pandya

 Power and Alternative Power Sales

 dhara.pandya@mastecnz.co.nz

Dara Pandya

 Power Dealers

 dhara.pandya@mastecnz.co.nz

Dara Pandya

     

 Strategic Marketing

 marketing@mastecnz.co.nz    

 Jeannie Murdoch

All info requests from the news letter

 info@mastecnz.co.nz    

 Jeannie Murdoch
     
 Smart Work Systems    

Product Development for SWS
All types of systems using Instrumentation, Automation, Transducers, Wireless, Micro and PC

 rob.maskell@mastecnz.co.nz

Rob Maskell & Hayden

Software Development
LabVIEW, Dynamic C, Python and PLCs

 rob.maskell@mastecnz.co.nz

Rob Maskell & Kim

     
 AC~DC Power Ltd    

General Sales & Dealers

 voltage@acdcpower.co.nz

Dara Pandya

     

Administration & Accounting

 power@acdcpower.co.nz

Jeannie Murdoch

Please send Rob Maskell in Marketing any updates on company details, any new staff members etc

Please contact our staff for any products, Loyal, Saera, Dhara are always pleased to help


Wireless Primer

Now th eguys at B&B are pretty switched on cookies and they just released this excellent info on wirless, I believe should be available to all. It is public domain ut still I want to acknowledge them as the writers and authors to the public domain.

They have blogged it -- so happy reading and using.

The link for the Blog

Just scroll down a bit and you will hit this excellent work.


Some other important or useful links

Rabbit Forum - Rabbit
Rabbit Appnotes - Rabbit
Rabbit Webinars - Rabbit
Rabbit White Papers - Rabbit
Rabbit Documentation - Rabbit
Rabbit Ask Larry Column - Rabbit
Rabbit New Downloads and C math code examples etc - Rabbit  


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