In my last blog entry I raved about the endicator power monitor and how it will make my life easier and that is all true. What the designers have done, unbeknownst to them, is they have made life easier for future DR too. I’ll try to explain. Chances are if you are reading this you […]
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Managing Shipping Costs
In today’s economy, all of us are looking for ways to be more cost effective. One cost that is visible is shipping & transportation. Companies look for ways to trim expenses in this area. Kele helps our customers do this by being proactive in our efforts to efficiently manage the supply chain process. Here are […]
Read PostMaking Your Job Easier (and Mine too)
My first exposure to power monitoring was the WT series. I started out in the warehouse shipping them. Then I progressed to stripping the wires used for the CT shorting assembly. After that I assembled them, put them in enclosures, and added the shorting switches when they were ordered. From the warehouse I moved to […]
Read PostThe Dark Arts
Sometime last week I answered the phone in my usual manor when the man on the other end asked simply “tech support?” To which I replied, “Yes, this is tech support”. “I need someone that knows the ‘dark arts’” he said. “I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want.” I told […]
Read PostGet Ahead of the Curve
Understanding and then selecting the right temperature curve might seem like a daunting task. To a newbie, it might seem impossible but there is a logical, systematic method to selecting the right temperature sensor. Basically, the thermistors we use in our systems have negative temperature coefficients meaning as the temperature rises, the corresponding resistance […]
Read PostMake Your Job Easier with Kele’s Sensor Tips
Every decent-sized Building Automation contractor should have a sensor whisperer; the guy who knows instinctively exactly where each sensor should go…even when there’s no plan. If your company doesn’t have a sensor whisperer, we can help. Our technical support staff can always help you with just the right touch for perfect sensor installation guidance. But […]
Read PostNeed Help Retrofitting Pneumatics to Electric Actuators?
In the current economic times it can be difficult to convince a client that it is necessary to remove a working valve just to change out the pneumatic actuator controlling it. Re-piping and draining the system alone means down time and extra labor that probably isn’t in the budget. The obvious solution is to leave […]
Read PostKele Pieces Together the Component Hospital
One of the great perks of working for the nation’s leading supplier of building automation products is field trips to locations where there are interesting applications for our products. Case in point, I drove to Joplin on February 21st in my quest to learn more about Joplin’s “component” hospital. If you remember, Kele was Xcel Mechanicals […]
Read PostKele Hits the Road to Investigate Component Hospital
Well, when it comes to intriguing new applications for Kele’s peripherals in building automation systems, I just can’t help being nosey. A couple of weeks ago I received an email from one of our account executives, Jon Butler, about one of his customers who was working on temporary hospital in Joplin, Missouri. Kele was the […]
Read PostNo Silver Bullet for Rising Energy Costs, But There is Power Monitoring
You may have noticed that energy prices are on the rise. While there is much chatter about wind farms, solar panels and hydrogen-powered vehicles, Building Automation Industry customers are reliant upon current energy sources and those prices continue to go up. While we have little control over energy prices, we can control costs by controlling […]
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