GFCI DEVICE TESTER The U. S. Department of Energy (DOE), its laboratories, and production facilities are committed to helping businesses in the United States to improve the cycle from new ideas and product innovation to product development and commercialization. In order to achieve this goal, the DOE has put in place a program to transfer technologies developed at its laboratories to the private sector for commercial applications. DOE's objective in doing this is to establish mutually beneficial partnerships that can leverage advanced technologies and enhance U.S. position in the ever changing global marketplace. Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) is one of the participating laboratories in this program. By this announcement, Sandia is soliciting expressions of interest from U.S. businesses for potential collaboration and licensing in the following technology for which patent application has been filed. Sandia has developed an improved GFCI device tester which measures and plots the trip current and trip times of a GFCI device using claibrated components and circuitry. In addition, it also collects and saves data pertaining to a GFCI device and to plot the data on a lifr code safety curve and develop a trend for each GFCI device to provide an indication of futurr reliability. The invention can be used to test GFCI devices such as those found in wall mounted receptacles, panel-mounted breakers, end-of-cord breakers, and multiple-outlet extension cord type breakers, and is particularly useful in critical industrial applications. This is not a solicitation. Interested parties are invited to submit a letter of interest providing information about the company, intended use of the invention, in its business and the point of contact (including name, address, telephone and fax numbers) to: Ms. Joanne Trujillo, MS 1380 Sandia National Laboratories P. O. Box 5800 Albuquerque, NM 87185-1380 FAX NO. (505) 843-4163. E-MAIL: Joanne Trujillo, jmtruji@sandia.gov.

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