[TriLUG] NC*SA Meeting - Monday, December 9th - Electrical Grounding and Power
Roy Vestal
rvestal at trilug.org
Mon Dec 2 13:55:11 EST 2002
oops. supposed to be just for NCSA...Dang auto response settings!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roy Vestal" <rvestal at trilug.org>
To: <trilug at trilug.org>
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] NC*SA Meeting - Monday, December 9th - Electrical
Grounding and Power
> 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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