[TriLUG] NC*SA Meeting - Monday, December 9th - Electrical Grounding and Power

[Roy Vestal]

woohoo!  Wish I could be there.

How are things?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lisa Lorenzin" <lorenzin at 1000plus.com>
To: "Triangle Linux Users Group" <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 1:10 PM
Subject: [TriLUG] NC*SA Meeting - Monday, December 9th - Electrical
Grounding and Power


>
> The next meeting of the North Carolina System Administrators
> organization (NC*SA) is upcoming.  Details about the meeting and
> directions are provided in this note.  We hope to see you there!
>
>                     NC*SA General Meeting
>              6:00 pm, Monday, December 9th, 2002
>                      Dreyfus Laboratory
>                  Research Triangle Institute
>                   Research Triangle Park, NC
>                      (directions below)
>
>         Speaker: Curtis Leary, GSSI
>         Topic:  Electrical Grounding and Power
>
> ==============================
>
> Abstract:
>
> How important is Electrical Grounding and Power in today's sensitive
> electronic environment that we take for granted?  What you should know
> about the National Electrical Code concerning your home and home office.
> What about your surge protection devices - are they really protecting your
> equipment, or are they a hazard?  Is your UPS correct for your equipment?
> Items you should know about in the field of Grounding and Power.
>
> Examples:
> 1. How to engineer a UPS for your needs
> 2. Surge Protection Devices & recalled items
> 3. Grounding & Bonding at the home (CATV, Telephone, AC Electrical Power)
> 4. AC Outlets, GFCI and AFCI
> 5. Single Phase AC Circuits, what does it mean: Phase, Neutral and
Grounded circuit
> 6. Common violations found during an Audit process
>
> Speaker Biography:
>
> Curtis Leary is the owner of Grounding Solution Services Inc., GSSI for
> short.  Curtis spent over 26 years serving his country in the US Coast
> Guard specializing in Telecommunications.  Upon retiring from the USCG he
> was hired by Nortel Networks where he was manager of the Technical Support
> Group and later started a Grounding Department that solved numerous issues
> with the Baby Bells and independent telephone companies concerning
> lightning and power.  Upon retiring from Nortel, he started GSSI in 1993.
> Now he is solving issues for telephone companies throughout the US
> (including Alaska), Canada, Central America plus other places.  In
> addition to telephone companies, ILECS, CLEC customers, he helps law
> enforcement agencies, medical facilities and businesses.  He also teaches
> Grounding and Power courses for customers including Nortel Networks.
>
> Curtis has a certificate in Electronics from William & Mary, a diploma
> from the USCG in Telephony, continuing education certificates from the
> University of Wisconsin (Madison), George Washington University (DC),
> Washington State University (Spokane), and the School of Lightning
> Technology, (Harvard).
>
> ==============================
>
> Our meetings are free and open to anyone with an interest in the topic
> of the evening and/or system administration.  We will be providing
> food and drink for the evening. If you have any questions please
> contact the Steering Committee at:
>
>   ncsa-steer at ncsysadmin.org
>
> ==============================
>
> For information about the NC System Administrators group, please see
> our web site at http://www.ncsysadmin.org/
>
> We have several usually-low-volume mailing lists that you can join:
>
>     ncsa-discussion .. general discussion
>     ncsa-announce .... meeting announcements
>     ncsa-jobs ........ employment opportunities
>     ncsa-steer ....... steering committee
>
> These are currently run on a Mailman list manager at
> ncsysadmin.org - please see this page on our web site
> for more information about these lists:
> http://www.ncsysadmin.org/lists.html
>
> (Please note, if you are a member of sage-members at usenix.org, you
> will also get a copy of these announcements.  We cannot unsubscribe
> you from that list.)
>
> ==============================
>
> Directions to Research Triangle Institute:
>
> Directions to Research Triangle Institute
> See also a map to the meeting place.
>
> >From I-40 west of RTP (e.g. Chapel Hill):
>
> Get onto I-40 heading east. Follow I-40 to the NC-147 - Durham Freeway -
> North (towards Durham). Stay in right lane. Shift right as soon as
> possible after merging with traffic coming off I-40 westbound.
>
> Exit to the right at the next exit (Cornwallis Road). At top of exit, turn
> to the left. (If you turn right and cross over the bridge, you are going
> the wrong direction.) After turning left onto Cornwallis, shift
> immediately to the right lane. Take the second right onto East Institute
> Drive. Take the second right off of East Institute Drive. Dreyfus
> Laboratory will be the first building on your right. Use the parking lot
> in front of the Lab and enter at the main entrance.
>
> >From I-40 east of RTP (e.g. Raleigh):
>
> Get onto I-40 heading west. Follow I-40 to the NC-147 - Durham Freeway -
> North (towards Durham). Shift to rightmost lane as soon as possible Exit
> to the right at the next exit (Cornwallis Road). At top of exit, turn to
> the left. (If you turn right and cross over the bridge, you are going the
> wrong direction.) After turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately to
> the right lane. Take the second right onto East Institute Drive. Take the
> second right off of East Institute Drive. Dreyfus Laboratory will be the
> first building on your right. Use the parking lot in front of the Lab and
> enter at the main entrance.
>
> >From north of RTP (e.g. Durham):
>
> Get onto NC-147 - Durham Freeway - south. Exit at the Cornwallis Road
> exit. At the top of the exit, turn left to cross over the bridge. After
> turning left onto Cornwallis, shift immediately to the right lane. Take
> the second right onto East Institute Drive. Take the second right off of
> East Institute Drive. Dreyfus Laboratory will be the first building on
> your right. Use the parking lot in front of the Lab and enter at the main
> entrance.
>
> A map of RTI is available at http://www.rti.org/images/campus.gif
>
> Enter through the glass doors at the front; all of the doors except one
> will be locked, but one will be open for our access.  Walk through the
> lobby, go straight out the glass doors, across the patio, and straight
> into Dreyfus Auditorium.
>
> --
> Lisa Lorenzin
> lorenzin at 1000plus.com
>
>
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