Case Study #001: The Low Wattage-High Voltage Problem This case study was the first of many to come, recorded on May 24, 1996, by Thermal Corporation engineer, Jim Dixon. Over the last fifty years, the great team of Thermal Corporation employees has helped many countless customers with heating applications. One of the byproducts of being an established company is having an extensive library of past solutions to lean on. A customer sent in the following quote for a cartridge heater: Diameter: 1/4” Length: 1 1/2” Lead Length: 20” Watts: 75W Volts: 208V When we entered it into our tech sheet program, the program was unable to choose an internal resistance wire for these specific cartridge heater values. This caused us to ask three questions: 1. Why is this a problem? 2. If the

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