In my first video you saw why the Honeywell WebStat is the perfect open controls solution for smaller buildings (3-20 units). In this video see how to connect to the Webstat. Stay tuned as in our next video on the Honeywell WebStat we will show you how easy it is to setup time of day schedules.

For more information on the Honeywell Webstat you can contact one of the control pros at Stromquist & Company if you are in Georgia or Florida. Viewers in other parts of the country can contact one of our qualified affiliates at Controls Group North America.

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When it comes to energy-saving controls solutions, the available choices are geared towards large commercial applications or small, “light commercial”/residential needs. This means that the majority of light commercial type buildings have little to no choices regarding viable energy-saving controls. Light commercial buildings either have to take a solutions designed for a home ( which is inexpensive but also ineffective) or they had to pay for full DDC control systems (effective but very expensive).

Honeywell has now introduced the WebStat in order for light commercial building-owners to finally have a controls’ solution that is both effective and affordable!

In this video Stromquist & Company’s Steve Rybka introduces the Honeywell WebStat.

The WebStat is designed to control up to twenty roof top units anything less than three units and you are probably better off going with the Ecobee thermostat solution. There WebStat also allows easy programming of side loops to turn things like lights on and off. Steve will be coming back on Controltrends to show how easy it is to set up and program the Honeywell WebStat.

The control pros at Stromquist & Company have been very impressed with the WebStat and give it a 9 out of 10 rating.

If you have experience with the Honeywell WebStat we want to hear from you. Please tell us about your experience with the WebStat give it a rating between 1-10, with 10 being best and one being the WebStat is worse than the Minnesota Vikings this year.

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With the advent of Tridium, Honeywell WEBS AX, open protocals like BACNET and LON building owners have choices that were not available before.
In this excerpt from an interview with Honeywell’s Roger Rebennack, see how Honeywell has taken building automation controls to a whole new level. Honeywell has opened up their Access and Security products so

integrating into the building automation control system front end is easy. Instead of having a seperate computer and/or software program controlling each building control system, the new Honeywell WEBS AX solution allows all the building control systems, HVAC, lighting, access and security to communicate via one software package giving the building owner true “single seat”control.”
To learn more about open systems and “single seat control”, contact a control pro at Stromquist & Company if you are located in Georgia or Florida. You can also contact one of our affiliates at Controls Group North America if you are in another part of the country.
You might also want to check out the interview with Roger on Stromquist Radio, and stay tuned for more excerpts from his interview on Control Talk.
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When I think about variable frequency drives (VFDs) and bypasses I am reminded of the story of the family of women cooking a ham at Christmas. The young girl notices that her mother cuts each end of the ham off before

putting the ham in the pan to cook it. She asks her mother, “why did you cut the two ends off?” The mother replies, “well that is the way my mom taught me to cook a ham.” The girl then finds her grandmother and asks her the same question, to which her grandmother responds, “that is the way my mother taught me.” The girl’s great-grandmother is still living and when the young girl asks her why she cut both ends off of the ham before she cooked it she responds, “I had a small pan and it was the only way the ham would fit.”

Bypasses have been around as long as VFDs have been used. And until recently it made sense to have a bypass on your VFD. There were two very good reasons for always having a bypass: 1) VFD’s were unreliable, had a high failure rate, were complicated to set up, and required a highly trained specialist to install, set-up, or fix your VFD. 2) A bypass was required to allow your fan or pump to run while you waited for a specialist to come and replace your variable frequency drive.
With the massive improvements in VFD quality resulting in thousands of hours of run time between failures and ease of installation and setup (see how to set up a variable frequency drive in 36 seconds) the need for VFD bypasses are few and far between. Given that most bypasses cost more than the VFD it makes much more sense to by a back up VFD that can be installed and working in the time it took your grandfather to call the VFD specialist.
If you are in Georgia or Florida you can call the Control pros at Stromquist & Company for all your variable frequency drive needs. If you are located in another part of the country one of our affiliates at Controls Group North America can be of assistance with your variable frequency drive applications.

The technology behind variable frequency drives (VFDs) has been around for over forty five years and involved in HVAC for over twenty five years. However, many people remain in the dark as to how much energy and money VFDs save. The truth is VFDs are one of the best ways to make a building greener and save energy. Half the electricity used in a building is a direct result of pumping air and water through the buildings HVAC systems.

Most fans and pumps are oversized or sized for worst-case-conditions which means they are running at over capacity most of the time. By adding a VFD you can control or modulate the speed of the fan or pump to match the required need. The faster you drive your car the more gas your car uses; the slower you drive the better your gas mileage. But because of the affinity law for motors and pumps the savings from using VFDs are huge.

For example, if you reduce the speed of your pump by 10% you use 21% less energy, 20% means a 49% energy reduction, and 30% equals a 66% reduction in energy used.

In addition to energy savings, enhancing a pump or motor with a VFD will almost double its life expectancy. Given that most fans and pumps are expensive, this saving, in and of itself, may justify the cost of adding a VFD.

Improvements in VFD technology over the last several years including ease of set up and installation have made it easy to understand why VFDs result in a quick return on investment and have become the first thing energy experts look at when they want to make a building more green and cost efficient.

Are you or your company involved in making the world a greener planet? Tell the world! Comment below. Leave a link to your website and your Company Facebook page. You never know who will find YOU on Controltrends!

Functional Devices has developed a plug and play Evaporator Fan Controller the Functional Devices EFC 4045T for walk-in coolers and freezers that can significantly reduce energy costs –  with a potential 2-year payback! They are great for convenience stores, restaurants, schools, hospitals, hotels, etc – anywhere that has walk-in refrigerators and/or freezers. Check out this video to see the EFC 4045T

The fans in the evaporator boxes run at normal speed at all times, even if the thermostat is not calling for a cooling cycle.  To save money, the controller monitors the temperature on both the intake and the exhaust of the evaporator fan unit.  When the temperature of the exhaust is equal to the intake temp, the controller will reduce the speed of the fans to save energy and reduce costs.  When the compressor turns back on the meet the thermostat requirements, the controllers will return the fans to normal speed.  Think of it as a mini VFD!

These Evaporator Fan Controllers have been installed and tested in several locations and have already proven their worth.  One convenience store installed two devices two years ago for testing and is saving an average of $200/month on his electric bill since installing them!  Now that’s great payback.  If you have walk-in coolers or freezers or have customers who do, you need to check out this new gem from Functional Devices.
For more information on the Functional Devices EFC 4045T controller you can contact Stromquist & Company if you are in Georgia or Florida or one of our affiliates at Controls Group North America.

In part three of the Honeywell Industrial Controls Training Series, Matt covers PID control as it pertains to tuning an industrial control such as the Honeywell UDC 3200. Matt will demonstrate how to set up a Honeywell UDC 3200 control loop right out of the box. Just in case you cannot get your control loop tuned with the parameters that typically

work, Matt walks us through industrial control concepts such as auto tune, adaptive tune and fuzzy logic, which are all available on the Honeywell UDC 3200. In addition, Matt covers different types of control input signals like the type J and K thermocouples. He then demonstrates the correct way to scale a 4-20 ma signal. These are just a few topics covered in this informative Honeywell industrial controls training class, stay tuned for Part 4. If you missed Part 1 and Part 2, click on the links to get even more Honeywell Industrial Controls Training.

In this class Matt continues his discussion of when and how to use the Honeywell UDC2500 and UDC3200. Matt also shows us why the new Honeywell DR4500 Truline circular chart recorder is far superior to conventional “pen dragger” recorders. See how to power temperature, flow, humidity, and differential flow transmitters from either the Honeywell DR4500 circular recorders or by using the auxiliary output option on the Honeywell UDC3200.
Matt also introduces us to the different types of communication protocals used in industrial transmitters including foundation field bus, Honeywell DE, and Hart. Learn when and how these protocols are used and why the Honeywell MCTOOL KIT communicator is the only communicator you will need to set up and communicate with all your transmitters from Honeywell to Rosemount.

Take a peak inside a recent Stromquist & Company controls class. In this video Matt from Stromquist & Company will walk you through what you need to know about industrial grade single loop controllers. Find out why the Honeywell UDC3200 universal single loop controller is the best selling and best valued controller in the marketplace, and the UDC 2500 controller is the high limit controller that industry chooses when burner safety is critical. Matt teaches us about different types of input and output signals. Want to know the difference between a 4-20ma and a 2-10 and why people choose one over the other? How about upscale and downscale burnout? What thermocouple should you use? What is the thermocouple health feature that Honeywell offers? Should I use it? Check out this training video to get the answers to these and other questions.

Most of us know Bacharach for combustion analyzers like the PCA3 and ECA 450 combustion analyzers or for the Monoxor 3 or snifit carbon monoxide detectors. Did you know that Bacharach introduced thirteen new products last year and will

be introducing five more this year? As you can see in this video at the CGNA product show Bacharach is a company on the move. In addition to their core products of combustion analyzers you can see they have introduced low cost
refrigerant detectors like the R22 refrigerant identifier and a really cool line of ultrasonic leak detectors. The contractors we know love the price and flexibility of the IEQ Chek portable indoor air quality monitor. Bacharach has also added a complete line of gas monitors including both a single zone and multi zone gas monitoring units that can detect thirty of the most common gases.
Bacharach still makes a great line of combustion analyzers and with these innovative new products they have truly become a leader in the testing and measurement instrumentation market. If you are a Stromquist customer or are located in Georgia or Florida please contact your friends at Stromquist & Company to find out more about Bacharach products. All others can contact one of our affilates at CGNA ( Controls Group North America) for help with Bacharach devices.