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    194 ELECTRONICS & POWER MARCH 1977

    Industry
    Engineering Services delivers the goods
    Engineering Services, an 'inhouse' service CEGB construction and repair-and- lines solely on income from clients within the
    company within the Central Electricity maintenance divisions as well as other clients in CEGB and elsewhere. The services offered
    Generating Board, recently held an exhibition the UK and overseas. cover production assurance, quality assurance,
    at the CEGB Headquarters in London. The In conjunction with British Electricity technical documentation and field services,
    exhibition showed how the organisation International, the organisation recently with activities incorporated into packages as
    operates as an independent company, provid- reached agreement with the Atomic Energy consultancy services, plant procurement, site
    ing quality- and production-assurance services Organisation of Iran for the supply of a services and specialist services. The packages
    to CEGB departments and external clients. complete package of specialist and consultancy are available individually or as a total service.
    The organisation employs 600 staff, mostly services associated with the 23 GW Iranian At the exhibition, the first certificates of
    qualified engineers, and its work is mainly nuclear-power programme. The package will compliance were awarded to a representative
    concerned with mechanical and electrical plant include supervision of quality control and sample of manufacturing organisations which
    for conventional and nuclear power stations. inspection at site and at manufacturers, have demonstrated that their systems meet the
    The expertise available within the organisation, production assurance to ensure delivery to
    programme of plant ordered, and complemen- relevant section of CEGB QA Standard 42
    and on call from the CEGB resources, enables (Quality assurance system requirements
    it also to undertake comprehensive contract tary technical documentation, design and
    training facilities. applicable to CEGB contracts).
    consultancy and supervision services on a
    variety of high-technology process plant for the Engineering Services is run on commercial Encircle 75

    New braking system for


    electric vehicles
    The economic viability of battery electric would effectively short circuit the battery and
    vehicles of all types from buses to forklift blow the traction fuses) and were not capable
    trucks depends to a considerable extent on the of operation at low road speeds.
    size, weight and cost of the battery necessary Now, as a result of a programme of
    to achieve the required range and on reducing development funded jointly by the UK
    maintenance requirements to a minimum. Any Department of Industry and Cableform Ltd., a
    reduction in battery weight will not only new system of regenerative braking has been
    correspondingly reduce its cost, which is a introduced. This system is claimed to have
    significant fraction of the total cost of the advantages over earlier designs in that it is
    vehicle, but will also enable the vehicle to be simple, can be produced at low cost, will
    more lightly built and materially reduce its provide regenerative braking almost to a
    energy consumption per kilometre. standstill and requires no critical adjustments.
    One approach, known as 'regenerative
    braking', is to use the traction motor as a For many years, the well known Pulsomatic
    dynamo to feed some of the energy normally Mk 10 controller manufactured by Cableform
    wasted in braking back into the battery. This Ltd. has been fitted to battery electric vehicles
    will not only reduce the size of battery both in the UK and abroad. This system uses a
    necessary, but will also eliminate most of the combination of variable pulse-repetition fre-
    wear on the normal brakes, since they will quency and variable pulse width to give
    need to be used only for emergencies and for minimum ripple over the whole speed range.
    The new system, for which patent action is Integrated circuits mounted in the 'win-
    parking, and cut down maintenance quite dows' of a super-8 film, with the terminal
    significantly. pending, uses the same driving circuit to
    provide smooth and effective braking, and wires functioning both as conductor and
    Up to the present time, regenerative braking support, can now be supplied by Siemens.
    systems have required a considerable number hence requires only a very small number of
    additional components. It can be applied very The starting material for the new circuits is
    of additional components in the control circuit a polyimide ribbon cut and perforated
    and hence have been costly, have necessitated cheaply to any battery electric vehicle using a
    thyristor controller. analogously to a super-8 film. Manufacturer
    critical adjustments to provide the requisite and user can thus fall back on the drive and
    safety margin against miscommutation (which Encircle 76 transportation technologies of the film
    industry for the production facilities they
    require. Before the chips are mounted, the
    Ferranti expands Argus range film surface is coated with copper, tinned
    and etched to produce conductors and
    Two new processors to supplement the highly that of the lower end of the 700S range. Like terminal points for the chips. The inner
    successful Argus 700 range have been the 700S, it supports 256k of memory, 2 or 4 ends of the conductors protrude into the
    announced by Ferranti. At the same time, the word floating point and virtual addressing. 'windows' of the film to provide both
    Argus 700 range has been boosted by the Both computers utilise the wide range of physical support and electronic bonding.
    introduction of a bipolar memory which microprogrammed input-output processors, Once the chips have been inserted, the film
    increases the power of the top of the range backing stores, peripherals, displays and inter- strips are rolled on to reels. About 1000
    Argus 700S by 50%, a new low-priced m.o.s. face equipment already available. integrated circuits can be rolled up in this
    memory, a range of advanced monitors, The new 150 ns bipolar memory upgrades way on one film. The user of these flat
    including an extremely powerful c.r.t.-based the Argus 700S so that it can easily achieve circuits can cut the circuits individually and
    monitor for use in system commissioning and about 1 000 000 instructions per second, a install them directly in his equipment.
    improved systems control panels. boost of 50% over the performance of the Electronically controlled cameras and flat
    The new processors — the Argus 700F and same processor with core memory. This desktop computers have so far been the
    700G — are claimed to bridge the power gap operation complements the ported architec- main fields of application, but small
    between the existing Argus 700E and Argus ture of the Argus 700S, which allows measuring instruments in which optimum
    700S. The Argus 700F operates with an m.o.s. independent input-output processors to oper- space utilisation is a prime consideration
    memory of 500 ns cycle time; the maximum ate with time parallel memory access for the are now also utilising the new circuits
    memory capacity is 64k 16 bit words. The most demanding data rate applcations.
    Argus 700G has a performance approaching Encircle 77 Encircle 78

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