Isomatic UK Weblog

Peter Burton's daily log, covering Peter's personal interests, e.g. jazz, travel and general grumpiness plus (occasionally) the business of Isomatic and its associate companies.

Monday, July 26, 2004

Photographs of phase converters

Over the weekend we had photographs produced of both Isomatic 3 phase converters and Boost Energy 3 phase converters. The photographer and 'digital manipulator' was Barrie Davis. Examples of his work can be seen at Brockham Village photographs. These were exhibited at Denbies Vineyard, which we visited yesterday.

posted by Peter # 06:20

Sunday, July 18, 2004

Courtauld Institute Gallery

Today is Sunday so we forgot about work and took a trip to London. The highlight was a visit to the Courtauld Institute Gallery at Somerset House. It was even quiet there, although the rest of London was very crowded with visitors.

posted by Peter # 17:23

Friday, July 16, 2004

Nigerian customers

We are receiving enquiries for DSL splitters from Nigeria. The first one gave two credit card numbers, neither of which worked. I do hope we are not into another burst of Nigerian scams !

posted by Peter # 05:46

Thursday, July 15, 2004

Booster Trade Mark

Having taken advice from a patent lawyer, we are adding the TM superscript to the word Booster everywhere on the following pages:

3 phase converters
3 phase convertors
rotary converters
rotary convertors
selecting and understanding a 3 phase converter.

posted by Peter # 06:18

Monday, July 12, 2004

Jack Gibbons playing Gershwin

Yesterday we went to a piano recital at the Queen Elizabeth Hall by Jack Gibbons. The performance was almost entirely Gershwin plus two of Jack's own compositions.

posted by Peter # 06:53

Saturday, July 10, 2004

Revised Selecting & Understanding Page

Yesterday I revised the web page Selecting and understanding a 3 Phase Converter. I changed the text in respect of deriving single phase from the 3 phase output by connecting between one phase and neutral. The new lower power Boosters allow this from any phase.

posted by Peter # 06:12

Thursday, July 08, 2004

Advice to Boostek re. web marketing

I have just E-mailed advice to Boostek on improving positions in search engines. This included:
Signing up to WebProWorld
Ensuring search phrases are available to spiders
Keeping content fresh
Starting a Weblog !

posted by Peter # 06:56

Wednesday, July 07, 2004

Phase Converter Manufacturers Association (PCMA)

Isomatic has received an invitation from Boost Energy Systems Ltd. to join the new Phase Converter Manufacturers Association. I replied that we are very willing to join, with a particular aim of educating potential customers in electrical terminology.

I am particularly unhappy with any manufacturer that describes a product as an inverter that does not follow the standard definition:
"A device that changes direct current (DC) into alternating current (AC)".
I note that none of the PCMA members are guilty of this.

posted by Peter # 05:58

Tuesday, July 06, 2004

Small transformers & Fragrance Direct

Yesterday I despatched a batch of small transformers that the customer wanted packed in small boxes, 100 per box. Our factory had sent them here split between just two boxes so I had the task of repacking.

I used the boxes saved from all the purchase of perfume for my wife over the last year or so. Since I found Fragrance Direct she has been using Carven's Ma Griffe like water because the price is so incredibly low.

posted by Peter # 06:15

Saturday, July 03, 2004

A good transport company ?

We have just used Davies Turner for the first time, transporting goods from our Bulgarian factory to the UK. For the first time EVER we received the goods on time and undamaged !

The final leg of the trip was so early in the morning that there was nobody to receive the delivery. The driver used his initiative to telephone the (apparently deserted) company and was answered because the telephone was on divert out of hours. Hence arrangements could be made for immediate drop. Many drivers would just go away.

Obviously we will continue to use this company and publicise such good performance. I hope that it continues because it would solve one of our major problems.

posted by Peter # 06:16

Friday, July 02, 2004

New search engine

I am very impressed with SearchSight.com. I t indexes my submissions immediately, responds quickly to searches and displays each result with a thumbnail of the web page. There is no obvious impediment to submitting individual pages in addition to the home or index page.

posted by Peter # 06:27

Thursday, July 01, 2004

Precision resistors

In order to measure and record 3 phase current waveforms for 3 phase converters we decided to buy 3 precision high power 1 ohm resistors. This proved more difficult than I anticipated but using Google.co.uk I found Willow, who have a specialist area of low value resistors.