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This month we would like you to join in celebrating Lex's 20th anniversary! Help us celebrate our "20 Years of Electrifying Innovation" by participating in this month's contest - an "egg hunt" through our website. Our 20th anniversary bug has been hidden on 3 separate product pages. Everyone who finds all 3 products will win a Lex prize this month!
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We know Lex has a lot of products, so we'll give you a few clues to help your search through our website:
Good luck and thank you for supporting Lex. You've helped us make it to the big 2-0!
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We're pleased to say that we are able to hold our prices again this month. Log in on our home page - www.lexproducts.com - to download your April price list.
Lex has recently "powered up" our Western sales force. Our Lex West sales team is now lead by Bob Ferra as Western Territory Manager. His Western sales team is comprised of Sales Associate Joe Goshert and Customer Service Representative Steven Siegel. Bob will be responsible for most face-to-face meetings with customers, providing product demonstatrations and introducing new products. Jow will be a customer resource for quotes, as well as product and application information. Steven will be the point man for customer orders, order status and tracking.
Bob says, "At Lex, we organize our people with the same care we build our products. As usual, it will be our customers who reap the benefits." If you haven't already seen the results of this change, we are confident that you will soon.
Lex Products offers a complete line of factory-built and tested audio and data cables, so we hope that you will never have to solder your own XLR audio or DMX cable. Nevertheless, someday you might be on the road and need to repair a cable an hour before curtain. In addition to your soldering iron and solder you might not have a clamp to hold the connector you're soldering to.
Instead of a clamp, if you can find any loose mating connector and weigh it down (a sandbag works well), plug in the connector you're soldering to, and voila! The connector stops running away from you while you're performing the repair. Plugging the connector into a mating connector has the added benefit of holding the pins so that they resist misalignment when heated with a soldering iron.
It's also important to note that many of the solders sold by stores you encounter on the road may now be of the non-leaded variety. Non-lead-bearing solders sometimes require substantially higher temperatures to melt, which may increase the likelihood of misaligning pins when soldering wires to them. Non-lead-bearing solders are also more brittle and connections more likely to break (e.g. when a connector field-repaired at too low a temperature is dropped) than connections made using their traditional counterparts.
-Arnold Tang
- A business change in the rain.
- It comes in twelves.
- A 15A time saver.
Good luck and thank you for supporting Lex. You've helped us make it to the big 2-0!
We're pleased to say that we are able to hold our prices again this month. Log in on our home page - www.lexproducts.com - to download your April price list.
| We are pleased to announce the addition of Joe Janisch to the Lex Products team as Director of Engineering. Joe has over 23 years of professional engineering experience, leading top-performing engineering teams, including his most recent position with Cooper Lighting Products in Peachtree, Georgia. At Lex, Joe will lead product engineering, which includes product development, product improvement, product testing, and technical support functions. You can reach Joe at jjanisch@lexproducts.com or at his direct dial, 203.247.9933. |
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Lex has recently "powered up" our Western sales force. Our Lex West sales team is now lead by Bob Ferra as Western Territory Manager. His Western sales team is comprised of Sales Associate Joe Goshert and Customer Service Representative Steven Siegel. Bob will be responsible for most face-to-face meetings with customers, providing product demonstatrations and introducing new products. Jow will be a customer resource for quotes, as well as product and application information. Steven will be the point man for customer orders, order status and tracking.
Bob says, "At Lex, we organize our people with the same care we build our products. As usual, it will be our customers who reap the benefits." If you haven't already seen the results of this change, we are confident that you will soon.
The West Sales Team, from left: Joe Goshert, Sales Associate: jgoshert@lexproducts.com, Bob Ferra, Western Territory Manager: bferra@lexproducts.com, Steven Siegel, Customer Service Representative: ssiegel@lexproducts.com.
Our trivia contest question is being replaced this month by our 20th anniversary "egg hunt," but we still wanted to provide you the answer to last month's question: What does SJOOW-A stand for?
Our official answer, provided by Bob Luther, is:
S = Service
J = Junior (300V)
O = Oil Resistant Jacket
O = Oil Resistant Insulation
W - A = Weatherproof Approved
Heath Hurwitz from Focus Lighting provided the most entertaining answer of the month and we thought you would enjoy reading it:
Back in 1973, we had a guy working in the cable department named Stanley Johnson. Stanley was in the Marine Corp and had recently returned from the Vietnam War. We decided that it would be a low stress job if we put Stanley on the cable testing machine. It was fairly simple. All Stanley had to do was plug in both ends of the cable and make sure that the lights came on.
We do not know how he did it, but he kept shocking himself. All through the warehouse, you would hear Stanley yelling "OOW-A" when he would shock himself. I guess it brought him back to his marine days.
Soon enough everyone was making fun of Stanley and we started labeling all of the cable SJOOW-A.
And low and behold, the name has stuck and now it is written on cables all over the US of A.
Let's give a loud "OOW-A" for Stanley.
Our trivia contest question is being replaced this month by our 20th anniversary "egg hunt," but we still wanted to provide you the answer to last month's question: What does SJOOW-A stand for?
Our official answer, provided by Bob Luther, is:
S = Service
J = Junior (300V)
O = Oil Resistant Jacket
O = Oil Resistant Insulation
W - A = Weatherproof Approved
Heath Hurwitz from Focus Lighting provided the most entertaining answer of the month and we thought you would enjoy reading it:
Back in 1973, we had a guy working in the cable department named Stanley Johnson. Stanley was in the Marine Corp and had recently returned from the Vietnam War. We decided that it would be a low stress job if we put Stanley on the cable testing machine. It was fairly simple. All Stanley had to do was plug in both ends of the cable and make sure that the lights came on.
We do not know how he did it, but he kept shocking himself. All through the warehouse, you would hear Stanley yelling "OOW-A" when he would shock himself. I guess it brought him back to his marine days.
Soon enough everyone was making fun of Stanley and we started labeling all of the cable SJOOW-A.
And low and behold, the name has stuck and now it is written on cables all over the US of A.
Let's give a loud "OOW-A" for Stanley.
Lex Products offers a complete line of factory-built and tested audio and data cables, so we hope that you will never have to solder your own XLR audio or DMX cable. Nevertheless, someday you might be on the road and need to repair a cable an hour before curtain. In addition to your soldering iron and solder you might not have a clamp to hold the connector you're soldering to.
Instead of a clamp, if you can find any loose mating connector and weigh it down (a sandbag works well), plug in the connector you're soldering to, and voila! The connector stops running away from you while you're performing the repair. Plugging the connector into a mating connector has the added benefit of holding the pins so that they resist misalignment when heated with a soldering iron.
It's also important to note that many of the solders sold by stores you encounter on the road may now be of the non-leaded variety. Non-lead-bearing solders sometimes require substantially higher temperatures to melt, which may increase the likelihood of misaligning pins when soldering wires to them. Non-lead-bearing solders are also more brittle and connections more likely to break (e.g. when a connector field-repaired at too low a temperature is dropped) than connections made using their traditional counterparts.
-Arnold Tang
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