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CRE TECHNOLOGY now offers you an exclusive range of Hybrid products, designed to meet all your needs, allowing you to have a reliable power source 24 hours a day, day and night, rain or shine, while minimizing your investments and contributing to a better respect of the environment.

Q. How long have you been at MurCal? A. About 8 months. Q. What is your position/role at MurCal? A. I'm a Cable Harness and Wire Assembler. Q. What do you love most about your job and why? A. Working with the blueprints and seeing how it all comes together has been very educational for me. I’ve always worked in the electrical manufacturing industry but never with blueprints and I really like it.

The OpenView™ product family retains the ruggedness, customizability, and excellent performance that customers expect from Enovation Controls, a global leader in highly engineered motion control and electronic controls technology for diverse end markets.

SPARK Software Manager is MurCal’s standard tool that makes it easy to download and install the latest version of PowerVision Configuration Studio®, Enovation Controls’ integrated development environment for its line of HMI display and control solutions.

Providing power-related solutions for all industrial, marine, power plants and defense applications, CRE Technology, founded in 1980 and based in Sophia Antipolis, is a French leading manufacturer. CRE Technology stands for high quality for more than 40 years and has developed a reputation for designing and manufacturing products to the highest standard and quality.

MurCal always welcomes talented college students to work alongside our team members on various engineering projects in a collaborative environment. This provides them with hands on “real world” experience. Our interns play a crucial role on their teams and are involved in important projects that create real impact. Our hope is that they’ll sharpen their technical skills, gain valuable experience, develop personally and professionally, and ultimately bring fresh perspectives to their future careers. The internship program has been so successful in the past that we’ve been lucky enough to hire several of them as full-time engineers, and each and every one of them have proven to be solid contributors to the product and team.

Q. How long have you been at MurCal? A. I began working after the company was established by my Father – Art C Murphy – in 1958. This wasn’t a formal job (I was 13 years old). My father had me checking the operation of some simple controllers we were building for the Oil and Ag business. He said he wanted to see if they were, “idiot proof.” Was that a compliment?

We are used to seeing coverage of hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean every summer, but rarely in the Pacific, and this is because there are many factors that need to play out in order for a hurricane to form: Wind Direction and Water Temperature are the main two culprits.

As we discussed in our previous article, MurCal has partnered with several Wind Machine companies over the past several decades to modernize their equipment with sleeker, more advanced interface options. Wind machines are one of the classic frost protection methods for farmers, pioneered in California back in the 1920s. Windmills are now used in many parts of the world to protect crops from frost and freezing. Almost all of California's citrus orchards are protected by wind machines and this trend is only expanding, and farmers are looking for superior frost protection built to last.

In a previous article we discussed the advantages of combining the TEC-10 controller from Enovation Controls, a 4-position keypad from Blink Marine, and a custom adapter harness built in our facility, and how we were able to give one of our rental pump manufacturers a competitive advantage over others that are just offering standard products. Using customer feedback, our engineers can improve off-the-shelf solutions offered by our vendors.

Q. How long have you been at MurCal? A. Almost three months now 🤞🏼. Q. What is your position/role at MurCal? A. I’m a Software Engineer at MurCal. . Q. What do you love most about your job and why? A. I love that I can work on projects from beginning to end. Plus the company culture and warm welcome have been great as well.

Huntington Beach is a seaside city within Orange County in Southern California that serves almost 200,000 residents. Incorporated in 1909, it is located 35 miles south of Los Angeles and 90 miles north of San Diego. It is bordered by the Pacific Ocean on the west, and with Costa Mesa/Newport Beach to the East. With its 9.5-mile (15.3 km) of beautiful beach, mild climate, and excellent surfing, it has long been known as Surf City.

These new series of products from EGIS are the 4704 Surface Mount and the 4707 Panel Mount and they are perfect for the modern vehicle or vessel electrical system. These Panel Mount switchable circuit breakers offer robust construction, weatherproof housing, easy to mount circular style panel mount design, stainless steel hardware and high visibility ON/OFF lever.

Q. How long have you been at MurCal? A. A year and 5 months. Q. What is your position/role at MurCal? A. I have 3 main roles. I am the Social Media Manager, I take care of most of the marketing and article/blog/newsletter writing and I also do most of the eCommerce for our online sales.

MurCal’s CAT Retrofit Panel is a superior panel offering which includes the powerful, yet simple-to-configure MPC-20-R2 Controller. Includes MPC-20 in a sheet metal enclosure.

Herb Kaewert, an M.I.T. graduate, founded Stored Energy Systems® (SENS) in 1971. He located the company in the heart of Silicon Valley, amidst a vibrant high technology culture. Kaewert had previously founded Alkaline Batteries Corporation (ALCAD). He grew ALCAD to be one of the leading suppliers of NiCd batteries in the U.S., ultimately selling the company to the Chloride Group (U.K.).

Q. How long have you been at MurCal? A. I’ve worked from 2001 to 2007 and then again from 2015 to present. Q. What is your position/role at MurCal? A. I'm a Cable Harness and Wire Assembler.

In 2019 MurCal partnered with Blink Marine technology to bring you the most flexible CAN keypads on the market to power our new AgZone4, Automatic 4-Zone Keypad for custom configured Murphy PowerCore® engine controllers. Besides its durability, its software allows you to assign any valid CAN address to the keypad and communicate on either BUS simultaneously.