• The Challenge 4B Components of Morton, IL, is a global supplier of material handling and electronic components for grain storage systems. The company provides a microprocessor-based hazard monitoring system that checks the health of elevator buckets and conveyors and provides status information such as belt speed and alignment, bearing temperature, pulley alignment and blockage detection. Status information is made available through a 4-wire, RS-485 serial port. One of their clients needed to connect the RS-485 port to a system monitoring and maintenance computer in a main office hundreds of yards away. Cabling would have called for digging, trenching, and conduit work. 4B Components turned to B&B for a solution. • The Solution B&B’s solved the problem with a pair of powe

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