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SAFETY

How to follow NFPA 1126 - Use of Pyrotechnics before a Proximate Audience - and get hurt anyway
David Crater, Spring 2005 Birket Engineering News

Treasure Island Pyro Story
Glenn Birket, October 2004

Safe Flame - Fire on Stage or Stage on Fire?
Daniel Birket, May 2002

Fire When Ready - A Pyro-Electric Safety Primer
Daniel Birket, February 2002

Wolf! - Meaningful Messages and Alarming Alarms
Daniel Birket, January 2002

Silent Death - Protecting Against Undetected Failures
Daniel Birket, December 2001

Safety Interlocks Not Always a Good Idea
Birket Engineering News, Jan/Feb 1994

 

LIGHTING

Photometry of Strobes
Glenn Birket, 2004

Strobes v Epilepsy
Glenn Birket, 2003

 

DESIGN

Fire Show Controls Designer Must Consider Every Possibility
Birket Engineering News, May/June 1995

E-Stop Resetting Strategies
Birket Engineering News, Sept/Oct 1994

Current vs. Voltage Mode Signals
Birket Engineering News, July/Aug 1994

Control Panels and Electrical Enclosures
Birket Engineering News, Jan/Feb 1994

I/O, I/O, It's Off to Work We Go...
Birket Engineering News, July/Aug 1993

Concerning Frequency of Operation in Interlock Design
Birket Engineering News, May/June 1993

Design Guidelines for Safety Critical Systems
Birket Engineering Standards, 1993

 

LADDER LOGIC

Latches
Birket Engineering Cookbook

Push-On, Push-Off Toggle
Birket Engineering Cookbook

Simple Response Check in Ladder Logic
Birket Engineering Cookbook

Simplifying Ladder Logic
Birket Engineering Cookbook

Watchdog
Birket Engineering Cookbook

Writing Ladder Logic Using the Fail-Safe Convention
Birket Engineering Cookbook

 

SYSTEM CONFIGURATION

Save/Load a Panelview from a ATA Flashdisk
Steven Eckwielen, Nov 1999

SLC to Modem Configuration
Steven Eckwielen, Oct 1997

Panelview 1400 to an Okidata Serial Printer
Steven Eckwielen, Oct 1999

 


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