Temperature rise of flat conductor cable installed under carpet
The method, test data, and results of temperature rise tests are reported on flat conductor cable installed under carpet and powered at up to twice rated loads.
Hankins, J. D.↗
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Surface-mounted flat conductor cable for home wiring
The concepts are discussed which are being considered and developed for surface-mounted wiring using flat conductor cable. Safety aspects, problems being encountered, and advantages are also discussed.
Hankins, J. D.↗
Flat Conductor Cable systems - Originally developed for space flight, useful for commercial applications
Flat Conductor Cable (FCC) technology has now reached a level of development where it is being considered for, and used in, numerous interconnection projects. First developed for aerospace use, FCC is becoming a major contender for commercial wiring tasks as well. This presentation is designed to show why and how FCC has been able to make the transition from the aerospace to the commercial field.
Angele, W.↗
Testing of a flat conductor cable baseboard system for residential and commercial wiring
The results of extensive testing (mechanical, electrical, chemical, environmental, thermal, and analytical) are reported for a flat conductor cable baseboard system for residential and commercial wiring. In all of the tests, Underwriters Laboratories (UL) Standards, UL Tentative Test Programs, or Accepted Engineering Practices were followed during test selection, test setup, and test accomplishment.
Hankins, J. D.↗
Installation procedure for surface-mounted flat conductor cable used in commercial and residential wiring
The installation procedures for surface-mounted flat conductor cable used in commercial and residential wiring are described.
Carden, J. R.↗
User's guide for a revised computer program to analyze the LRC 16 foot transonic dynamics tunnel active cable mount system
The revision of an existing digital program to analyze the stability of models mounted on a two-cable mount system used in a transonic dynamics wind tunnel is presented. The program revisions and analysis of an active feedback control system to be used for controlling the free-flying models are treated.
Chin, J.↗
Installation of surface-mounted flat-conductor cable
Guide describes step-by-step process for installation of interior surface-mounted FCC used in commerical and residential buildings. Photographs illustrate how cable-riser and baseboard covers are installed as well as receptacle assembly and receptacle-cover replacement.
Carden, J. R.↗
Time-domain reflectometry for cable-fault isolation
Instrument can be used to isolate fault at specific multiple-cable splice location.
Wood, K. D.↗
Inexpensive tags for tubes or cables
Split brass paper fasteners are used to identify tubes and cables in environments in which standard adhesive-backed identification tags do not adhere.
Fakolt, A. J.↗
Rigid cable support for blind installations
Mechanical support structure, originally designed for use with electrical cables, can support hydraulic, pneumatic, and cryogenic lines where bends are required, assemblies are inaccessible, and conduits are impractical. Support is also light in weight and offers means of damping vibration.
Abbott, J. R.↗
Design of an optical fiber cable link for lightning instrumentation
A lightning instrumentation system was designed to record current magnitudes of lightning strikes that hit a launch pad service structure at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The instrumentation system consists of a lightning ground rod with a current sensor coil, an optical transmitter, an optical fiber cable link, a detector receiver, and a recording system. The transmitter is a wideband pulse transformer driving an IR LED emitter. The transmitter operates linearly as a transducer. A low loss fiber bundle provides isolation of the recorder system from the electromagnetic field of the lightning strike. The output of an optical detector receiver module is sampled and recorded in digital format. The significant factors considered in the design were dynamic range, linearity, mechanical configuration, electromagnetic isolation, and temperature compensation.
Grove, C. H.↗
Lightning-activated electrical ground for cable shields
Device protects cables used to connect circuits that are physically separated from lightning-induced high-voltage. Circuit returns to normal high impedance open configuration after lightning-induced shield voltage is dissipated.
Castle, K. D.↗
Cable-clamp installation tool
Tiny vise simplifies installation of cable clamps in confined spaces. As thumbscrew is tightened, ears of clamps are forced together, and bolt passes through all lugs and into hole in stationary jaw.
Noel, M. B.↗
Development of flat conductor cable for commercial and residential wiring
The overall spectrum of the space technology spin-off development project: development of Flat Conductor Cable (FCC) for commercial and residential wiring, is presented. A discussion of the background, program milestones, industry participants, system outgrowth, hardware availability, cost estimates, and overall status of the program is presented for the 1970-to-present time period.
Carden, J. R.↗
A wind tunnel technique for determining stability derivatives from cable mounted aeroelastic models
System identification techniques in common use for extracting stability derivatives from flight test data have been adapted for application to data obtained from aeroelastically-scaled flutter models flown in a wind tunnel on a cable mount system. The concept has been applied with reasonable success to data from rigid models of a Space Shuttle Orbiter and a fighter tested in the NASA Langley transonic dynamics tunnel. Further application of this technique should permit extraction of derivatives that include scaled flexibility effects, thereby obtaining additional information from the testing of expensive flutter models.
Bennett, R. M.↗
Automated landing, rollout, and turnoff using MLS and magnetic cable sensors
A description of the simulation program used to study the landing approach, rollout and turnoff of the B737-100 aircraft utilizing MLS and a buried magnetic leader cable as navigation aids is presented. Simulation results are given and show the concept to be both feasible and practical for commercial type aircraft terminal area control.
Pines, S.↗
Guidance and navigation for automatic landing, rollout, and turnoff using MLS and magnetic cable sensors
This paper describes the navigation and guidance system developed for the TCV B-737, a Langley Field NASA research aircraft, and presents the results of an evaluation during final approach, landing, rollout and turnoff obtained through a nonlinear digital simulation. A Kalman filter (implemented in square root form) and a third order complementary filter were developed and compared for navigation. The Microwave Landing Systems (MLS) is used for all phases of the flight for navigation and guidance. In addition, for rollout and turnoff, a three coil sensor which detects the magnetic field induced by a buried wire in the runway (magnetic leader cable) is used. The outputs of the sensor are processed into measurements of position and heading deviation from the wire. The results show the concept to be both feasible and practical for commercial type aircraft terminal area control.
Pines, S.↗
A continuously pulsed copper halide laser with a cable-capacitor Blumlein discharge circuit
Experimental characteristics of a continuously pulsed copper halide laser with a cable-capacitor Blumlein discharge circuit are reported. Quartz laser tubes 1 m in length and 1.5 and 2.5 cm in diameter were employed to study the effects of the electrical circuit, lasant, and buffer gas on laser performance. Measured properties of the Blumlein circuit are compared with an analytic solution for an idealized circuit. Both CuCl and CuBr with neon and helium buffer gas were studied. A maximum average power of 12.5 W was obtained with a 1.5 nF capacitor charged to 8 kV and discharged at 31 kHz with CuCl and neon buffer gas at 0.7 kPa in a 2.5-cm-diam tube. A maximum efficiency of 0.72 percent was obtained at 9 W average power. Measurements of the radial distribution of the power in the laser beam and the variation of laser power at 510.6 and 578.2 nm with halide vapor density are also reported. Double and continuously pulsed laser characteristics are compared, and the role of copper metastable level atoms in limiting the laser pulse energy density is discussed.
Nerheim, N. M.↗