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 […]
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Need 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 PostMuch Anticipated WebStat Controller and Thermostats Now Available
We’re always adding new products to our lineup here at Kele. As the leading supplier of building automation products, we have partnership with more than 300 great manufacturers worldwide. And, our newest catalog has added over 130 product groups and is more than 12000 pages. If you don’t have a copy, you can request a copy online. […]
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 […]
Read PostKele Customers Tell Us Why They Buy From Us!
It’s hard to be humble. While the Las Vegas AHR show is behind us, hearing what you had to say about Kele lives on! Several of our customers told us specifically what you thought about Kele. A short video below demonstrates a few of the highlights. When we asked the question “Why do you buy […]
Read PostAre You Sure You’ve Checked Everything?
Late one afternoon not long ago, a fellow got me on the phone for tech support. He said he had ten carbon dioxide transmitters on one DCP-1.5-W power supply, and they weren’t operating, and he had pulled out most of his hair. Each transmitter needs less than 100 mA to operate, so the 1.5A power […]
Read PostA Valued Customer’s Kele Story
We sold a variety of equipment on a job here in St. Louis County, consisting of fans, fire dampers, fire/smoke dampers, and grills. The fire/smoke dampers were to have factory-mounted actuators with end switches. But the salesman, when releasing the order for production, somehow deleted the end switches. After the arrival of the equipment on […]
Read PostWhen Electricity Acts Up
This past weekend, we were just back from a trip to market, and my wife was busy stowing the fruits, veggies, oils, kimchi, and spices. I was doing my usual chore of qualifying and sorting the plastic shopping bags as to fitness for cat litter duty, kitchen waste duty, and “other,” based on leakage potential. […]
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