GSA????

GSA - General Services Administration

One of our government customers (with the US Bureau of Reclamation) was disappointed he could not simply order one of our products through the GSA - told us we're making things difficult for him. Since we pride ourselves on making things easy - and of course would like more government orders - we've decided to learn how to get listed.

We've been approached by consulting companies who can get us started for several thousand dollars (more to follow???) but since we're small, we decided try it on our own first. If we then need help, at least we'll know the questions to ask!

We've learned on our own before, for the Navy. (See blog dated June 8, 2009.) Conquered WAWF (Wide Area Work Flow), CCR (Central Contract Registration), SBA (Small Business Administration) etc. A few headaches along the way, but we made it. And, free help was usually available via US government toll-free numbers.

(Personal comment: despite all the criticism we hear about government employees I've found the majority of them to be courteous and helpful, limited perhaps by the bureaucratic systems they work in.)

It looks like a good amount of help is available from the GSA. We're already signed up for a free GSA web seminar in September.

Stay tuned - or better yet, if you have some helpful hints, please let us know. (E-mail jhtek@jhtechnology.com, or just comment here, or US toll free 800-808-0300).

Fast Response

Speedy!

OK - maybe you're expecting me to promote our fast response to your orders. (Sneaky how I worked that in!)
The real topic - fast-responding signal conditioners.
A few months ago a customer asked if we could provide frequency response to at least a few kilohertz for DC and load cell signals. Our standard circuitry could not. His quantity requirements were large enough that we designed a new circuit to meet his needs (3kHz minimum). We've since shipped his order. He tells it is working well in his application - heavy-duty shock testing. More recently another customer needed just three fast-response units which we now are able to easily supply.
We're working on the paperwork and documentation to turn this in to a standard catalog product line of DIN-rail mount transmitters. Look for it shortly.
Meanwhile, if you have high-frequency or fast-response requirements, please ask us. E-mail jhtek@jhtechnology.com or call (800) 808-0300 (US toll-free) or (941) 927-0300.

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Extended Temperature Operation

Too Hot? --- Too Cold?

Wouldn't you know - while this job was in progress we had another customer who needed to operate at high temperatures in a solar energy monitoring application. Same exact product (JH4380W), same exact solution. The extended temperature ICs support a temperature range of -40 to +85 degrees C (-40 to +185 degrees F).

We recently took an order (almost ready to ship as this is written) for 54 rangeable transmitters (JH4380W) to operate in environments as cold as minus 40 degrees (C or F - this is the one point on the temperature scale where both are the same). Our customer tells us the end destination is Russia. No great technological challenge - we simply built a run using extended-temperature ICs.

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