Small Components Making a Big Impact for the PV industry
insights from industryBrian Mills
Kayla Tescallo Stäubli
Brian Mills, product manager of photovoltaics at Stäubli and Kayla Tescallo, Marketing Coordinator from Stäubli talk to AZoM and answers questions about their original MC4 electrical connectors, the most widely used PV cable coupler in the world.
Could you start by giving our readers a brief overview of Stäubli Electrical Connectors?
Headquartered in Pfäffikon, Switzerland, Stäubli was originally founded in 1892 and currently has over 5,500 employees in offices across 29 different countries. We have four main business divisions in our company: robotics, textiles, fluid connectors and electrical connectors. Stäubli acquired Multi Contact (a privately owned company founded in 1963) to form its electrical connector division. The Multi Contact name was retired in 2017 and it is now known as Stäubli Electrical Connectors.
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that is not the same as going to take a safety class. these are people out in the world, far larger than the number of volunteers that president obama had in his campaign. there are a lot of people out there teaching these classes. and in many cases, the law requires you take the class from an nra instructor. it was an honest to goodness organization that was focused on teaching people how to use guns safely. i want to read something that ted cruz said about such a registry. in my judgment, the registry, the government keeping a list of firearms that are owned by the law abiding citizen would be terrible policy and would be inconsistent with the constitution. no word tonight on what ted cruz thinks of the nra putting together that list themselves. and the nra is not talking
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