
Do I Need a Safety Contactor?
Before we dive into safety contactors, let's first cover what a regular contactor is used for. Contactors switch an electrical circuit on or off. The most common use is as a simple on/off switch for a motor or lighting application. A safety contactor has the same...

Let’s Talk About What’s New
It's so nice to see the release of new products. Due to overwhelming component shortages and shipping delays, many manufacturers had to shift their R&D resources away from creating new products. We are happy to find those new products are finally getting their...

A Simple Explanation: The Difference Between a Soft Starter and a Variable Frequency Drive
This is a common question and, full disclosure, this is a very basic blog on the differences.A VFD (variable frequency drive) can increase/decrease the speed of a motor. If you need motor speed control a variable frequency drive is what you need. What does VFD really...

A Great Day To Throw An Axe! See How It Went.
The team of Marshall Wolf Automation recently spent an afternoon at Spartan Axe Throwing! What a great way to try something different and release any pent up tension. Even better, we were able to do that while getting to hang out with our entire team in one place!...

A Great Day To Throw An Axe! See How It Went.
The team of Marshall Wolf Automation recently spent an afternoon at Spartan Axe Throwing! What a great way to try something different and release any pent up tension. Even better, we were able to do that while getting to hang out with our entire team in one place!...

Do I Need a Safety Contactor?
Before we dive into safety contactors, let's first cover what a regular contactor is used for. Contactors switch an electrical circuit on or off. The most common use is as a simple on/off switch for a motor or lighting application. A safety contactor has the same...

Have You Looked At These Yet?
New products continue to be released! Last month we mentioned how excited we were to finally see our manufacturers being able to release something new. This month we are happy to say that we are seeing that continue. Multiple vendors have mentioned scheduled product...

AC Tech/Lenze SMV Series Video Resources
Instruction manuals are great, they're chock full of the technical data we need to get a drive set up......after maybe 120+ pages of information you weren't looking for, right?AC Tech/Lenze has made things easy by creating an extensive library of video guides for...