eCycle Awarded Contract to Provide Brushless Fan Solution to Aurora Flight Sciences
Temple, PA (ContentDesk) November 11, 2005 -- eCycle announced today that is has been contracted by Aurora Flight Sciences, located in Manassas, VA, to provide lift fan motors and controllers for an unmanned aircraft.Under the contract, eCycle, Inc. is designing and building brushless motors based on its CMG Silicon Series brushless motors.
The fan motors and electronics will be integrated into Auroras Excalibur Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (TUAV).
The Excalibur platform will feature a Williams International jet engine for main propulsion and three eCycle brushless fan drives for additional lift and attitude control.
This platform is intended to demonstrate Auroras new VTOL (vertical take off and landing) technology.About eCycle (www.ecycle.com)Established in 1996 and located in Temple, PA, eCycle produces a line of advanced brushless motors and generators, which have a wide range of applications in commercial, industrial, and consumer markets worldwide, particularly for mobile applications.About Aurora Flight Sciences (www.aurora.aero)Aurora Flight Sciences is a leader in unmanned aerial vehicle technology for research, defense and homeland security organizations.
For more than 15 years, Aurora Flight Sciences has expanded the limits of unmanned flight through the design and manufacture of innovative aircraft..
Dog Doors
Dog doors, often referred to as doggie doors or pet doors, are miniature swinging doors that are installed in a door or wall. They allow your dog or cat to access the backyard without someone to let them in and out. A dog door helps your dog reach the outside world quicker. A dog door also solves the problem of scratched wooden doors or torn plastic screens.
There are many different sizes of dog doors.
They are available in all sizes and are designed for traditional wooden doors as well as sliding glass doors. There are some dog doors that have magnetic and electric doors which are triggered open by a key which hangs from your dog's collar.
The key to finding the right dog door is to first measure your dog's height and width. Then determine which door in the house you would like to designate the dog door for. Next, consider how much you would like to spend on a dog door.
A dog door can be installed by cutting a square hole through the...
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"Forget Everything You've Ever Read About Water Heating..."
In recent times electric tankless hot water heaters areprogressively making a name for themselves in the UnitedStates as optimum water heater cost savers. In addition in many areas outside of the United States,electric tankless water heaters are considered to be farsuperior to the standard and more traditional hot waterheaters with tanks that take up entire closets and indeedsoak up lots of dollars each month. The tank units are seen as antiquated and entirelyinefficient in both water heating mechanism and costs. Yetpeople stick with because they are tried and true.In many ways, this belief is true. Hot water heater tanksnever quite stop working and are generally fairly reliable.But there is one over riding issue with the traditionalwater heaters which is that even if nothing in the house isusing the heater, the heater is still wasting energy andtherefore still costing money.
But despite what they have used in the past and despitewhat they have paid for water heating in the paste,...
"Forget Everything You've Ever Read About Water Heating..."
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Electric Radiant Floor Warming: the Affordable Luxury
(ARA) - Mountain climbers have an old saying: "Don't cheat your feet." A homeowner might consider this advice when building or remodeling a bathroom or kitchen floor.For floors, homeowners know that ceramic, slate or marble tiles are attractive and durable alternatives to wood, carpet or vinyl. They want the beauty of tile floors, but their feet tell them they're cold. While most people are comfortable with air temperatures of 65 to 75 degrees, they tend to feel uncomfortable if there's more than a 5-degree difference between the surface temperature (80 to 85 degrees) of the head and that of the feet. A bare foot gives an immediate indication as to the comfort level of any floor. For this reason alone, tile is often not the flooring of choice.With a tiny amount of heat supplied by a human foot, carpet fibers warm almost instantaneously to "foot" temperature, about 83 degrees.
A ceramic tile can't compete in this race: its mass needs a lot more heat for a longer amount of time...
Electric Radiant Floor Warming: the Affordable Luxury
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The SCOOTER Store, Health Net Partner to Provide Scooters to Managed Care Members
New Braunfels, TX (ContentDesk) August 8, 2006 -- The SCOOTER Store announced today a new partnership with Health Net, Inc. to make power mobility equipment and services conveniently available to Health Nets 6.6 million managed care members requiring power wheelchairs or electric scooters.