In Compliance News

Vornado Air, LLC has recalled 79,000 Vornado VH110 Whole Room Vortex electric space heaters after receiving 29 reports of heaters overheating and melting.

A new edition of IEC 62501 has been published by the International Electrotechnical Commission. IEC 62501 ed1.1 Consol. with am1 applies to “Voltage sourced converter (VSC) valves for high-voltage direct current (HVDC) power transmission - Electrical testing.” The new edition is available for purchase on the IEC website.

Approximately 154,000 ESL and Interlogix hard-wired smoke detectors have been recalled due to radio frequency interference that can cause the smoke detectors to fail to sound and alert consumers of a fire.

A team of two engineers developed a line of high-tech gym clothing equipped with wearable electromyography (EMG) technology that can sense the activity of muscle fibers during a workout. The micro-EMG sensors are woven into the garment to measure muscle effort and can wirelessly transmit data back to the core processor for further analysis of performance based indicators.