Archive for February, 2011
All safety glasses are not created equally. When it comes to protecting your eyes, you don’t want to leave anything to chance. The people at Edge go through great lengths and testing to make sure they are providing the best protection possible. Every pair of their glasses go through High Velocity Impact, High Mass Impact and Drop Ball Impact testing. All Edge glasses are compliant with ANSI standards for protection eyewear and meet U.S. Military Eyewear Ballistic Impact Resistance Requirements. That’s the best eye safety you can get, but Edge safety glasses have even more going for them.
Jerry, Mark, and Bob at Stromquist Counter
Edge glasses are designed for comfort with straight temples that don’t pinch, flexible and durable wrap around frames and a material that increases its “grip” as it becomes moist or warm. They also are available with polarized lenses that block 99.9% of UVA/UVB/UVC rays and with fog and/or scratch resistant lenses. Better yet, you can now get Edge eyewear with HD vision. Their glasses are the first ever to exceed ANSI standards for definition clarity with twice the resolving power of most safety lenses.
All that is great, but how do they look? Edge provides a wide variety of stylish frames and lens types and colors. With all the combinations available, you have over 90 of options. We have been selling these glasses at our counter for a few months, and they are the hot new “it” product. We’ve even had our own employees buying them. Everyone who tries them loves them. They are comfortable and stylish, have great vision clarity, and most of all they provide the best eye protection available.
No one ever expects an eye injury to happen, but accidents do happen on all types of jobs and in all types of situations. Protect your vision with the best. Edge Eyewear gets an A+ from Stromquist. Check them out for yourself.
Our annual Fall training classes have been scheduled. We will be offering Basic Pneumatics on October 18 & 19, VAV on October 20 & 21, and the Boiler Workshop on October 24 & 25. All classes include hands-on training and are held at Stromquist & Company, 4620 Atlanta Rd in Smyrna, GA. Check back soon under the “Training Classes” tab for class descriptions and registration information.
Also, we are looking at adding a Chiller class and possibly other classes to our training line-up this year, so stay tuned for details.
The idea for this article came across my computer in the form of an e-mail sent to me by a fellow employee of Stromquist and Company with an attached photograph.
I know we all strive in our chosen industry to do things right with as much professionalism as our clients will afford us. I also realize at times even the best of service personnel will make installation mistakes. Some of these mistakes are quite humorous, some are quite expensive to fix, and some of these installations could be quite possibly dangerous.
Since the Control Trends website is duty bound to get, you our readers, the best information on new controls, controls installation, and new trends in the control industry would it not be appropriate to also show how not to install a product?
We at Control Trends will not mention anyone’s name or any company name we do this only as an insight to possible installation mistakes and how to avoid these mistakes.
This first installation is quite humorous to me and I call it “The Sunshine State Weather Protector” Read More
We build quite a few control panels at Stromquist & Company for our customers. In fact, in our Florida UL listed panel shop we are always looking for ways to improve quality without cutting costs. So I am thrilled with the new RIBAN series of relays from Functional Devices. For those of you who might not know, Functional Devices developed the RIB (Relay in a Box). Stromquist & Company has been providing our customers with RIB relays for years. The RIBs have proven reliable and durable, and the team at Functional Devices stands behind their products and provides great customer service. That’s why I am not surprised with how well the new RIBAN series of relays we tested worked.
The RIBAN is designed for anyone building panels, and it is a great alternative to the old plug-in enclosed relays. The functions make it easy to install, test, and troubleshoot. Functional Devices created the RIBAN as a new type of relay, different from anything else in the marketplace. Read More
In an effort to keep things interesting at Controltrends we are introducing a new feature called Control Talk. Control talk will be a video show in which I will be interviewing “really smart” people in the HVAC controls industry. It will be a cross between Stromquist radio and Stromquist TV. Like Stromquist radio Control Talk will be in an interview format but the interviews will be shorter. The show will also include product demonstrations, training and troubleshooting tips similar to what we do on Stromquist TV.
Hopefully, we will bring the best of both these formats together on HVAC Control Talk, Read More
Check out the Maxitrol Certification Gas Pressure Regulator Class that was held at Stromquist & Company earlier this month.
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Stromquist & Company stocks Maxitrol Gas Pressure regulators and can meet all your gas pressure regulator needs.
Functional Devices, makers of the RIB (relay in a box), will be at Stromquist on Thursday, February 24 to conduct a lunch and learn. If you are in the Atlanta area, please join us for a free lunch and learn about various types of relays (including open protocol relays), power supplies, and their new Half-Light, an energy saving lighting device.
The Two Stage Half-Light is designed for a 2-ballast, 4 lamp fixture where each ballast controls two lamps. Within this configuration, an initial toggle “on” of the wall switch activates only one ballast to produce 50% light; by toggling the switch “off” then “on” again, both ballasts will be activated to deliver full light output. The sequence can be easily restarted by holding the switch in the “off” mode for at least 5 seconds. This is just one of the Half-Light models available. To learn more click here or come to our Lunch and Learn on the 24th.
This article is taken from a flyer written by Belimo about four years ago called “The Belimo Code” We thought we would revive the article to help our clients remember or for the newbie’s to learn from. This article will cover most of the Belimo actuators you will see in the field, for the others, give us a call and we will “Break the Code” for you.
The first part of the Belimo code is why Belimo? Belimo is a Swiss company so the name Belimo is derived from its Swiss meaning…
BEraten Consulting
LIfern Delivering
MOntieren Mounting
Now that we have the Belimo name code “cracked” lets breakdown the actuator codes…The first letter of the actuator code is all about TORQUE…
G 360 in-lb G= GIANT
A 180 in-lb A=AWESOME
A 133 in-lb A=AWESOME
N 90 in-lb N=NORMAL
L 35-45 in-lb L=LITTLE
T 18 in-lb T=TINY
The second letter of the actuator code is about MOTOR ACTION…
F=SPRING RETURN (on power failure the motor will return to its normal position)
M=NON-SPRING RETURN (on power failure motor will stay in its current position)
The third letter is about motor speed…note: non-spring return actuators can combine a forth letter to designate MOTOR SPEEDS…
Q=Quickest running (non-spring return)
C=Fast running
A=No Position Feedback (spring return only)
No Letter= Normal Speed
B=Basic
X=Customized
Next will be a set of numbers…These numbers are about POWER SUPPLY…
24=24 VAC/DC
120= 120 VAC
230= 230VAC
After the POWER SUPPLY numbers (stick with me) are the CONTROL letters/numbers…
Blank=On/Off (spring return)
-1= on/off (non-spring return)
-3= Floating Point (spring return)
-3= On/Off, Floating Point (non-spring return)
-3-P5= On/Off, Floating Point with 5Kohm Feedback (non-spring return)
-3-P10= On/Off, Floating Point with 10Kohm Feedback (non-spring return)
-SR= 2-10 VDC
-PC= 0-20 volt (Phasecut)
-MFT= Multi-Function Technology (program what you want)
-MFT95= 0-135ohm
-MFT-20= 6-9 VDC 20 VDC power supply (spring return)
At last we have our last letter which will deal with actuator OPTIONS…
-S=Built in auxiliary switch
-T= Terminal Block
Blank=Cable Version
We have now broken ‘THE BELIMO CODE” until Belimo introduces more actuators, then we may need to add to our code breaking article. If you need Belimo actuators give us a call at Stromquist and Company @ 1-800-241-9471(Atlanta) or at 1-800-638-7828 (Florida)and we will be “Code Breakers” together.
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