High Temperature Cabinet Cooler, Your Oasis For Hot Summer Conditions

August 19, 2010 — ndraker

Think about where you work. During the hot summer season, does it feel like this?

Think about all the electrical and electronic control cabinets used around your shop. Are any of them located near to an oven, furnace, or other source of heat? Imagine how hot it gets inside those cabinets with the added load of electronics giving off heat inside. With high temperature applications like these, it is a wonder how many electronics are able to survive the double-threat of summer and of hot processes.

EXAIR actually has a solution for these kinds of applications to keep cabinets in these kinds of applications cool. It is called High Temperature Cabinet Cooler. The High Temperature Cabinet Cooler System is set up to deliver the rated cooling power even under the most demanding of hot applications up to 200° F (93°C). In fact, many of our customers come to us from the Middle East countries such as Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, and Oman because our High Temperature Cabinet Cooler has earned its reputation as a robust performing Cabinet Cooling System even in demanding, desert-type conditions. And since there are no moving parts to burn up or wear out, our High Temperature Cabinet Cooler will last for years with little or no maintenance.

If you are in search of your oasis in the desert with keeping your cabinets cool,

Give some serious thought to using High Temperature Cabinet Cooler. You will not be disappointed. Fill out your Cabinet Cooler sizing guide and submit to us today.

Neal Raker, Application Engineer

nealraker@exair.com

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5 Ways to Save Compressed Air

August 18, 2010 — Kirk Edwards

1. Lower Your Pressure – A general rule of thumb states for every 2 PSIG increase in operating pressure adds an extra 1% energy cost. Increasing the main pressure to make up for a pressure loss always decreases your efficiency. You should concentrate on properly sized piping and filters to eliminate pressure drops and regulate your end use pressure with simple pressure regulators. This may allow you to lower your main operating pressure.

2. Lower Your Air Consumption – While lowering pressure will also lower consumption you probably have bigger issues than simply lowering main pressure a few PSIG. Retrofitting open blow offs and homemade blow offs with engineered products like air nozzles and air knives  is a simple, low-cost and fast way to recover wasted energy.

3. Regulate your Compressor - A regulation control on the compressor itself will allow for adjustments for different production schedules. You can run at peak performance during top production hours and program the compressor to reduce pressure during off hours and weekends. Large systems can use multiple compressors while smaller systems can benefit from newer compressors with this adjustment built right in.

4. Maintain Good Air Quality - Keeping your air quality high can lower maintenance needs, keep the system reliable and consistent, reduce wear on your air powered equipment. If designing a new system it is good to include an oiless compressor and an air dryer to keep good quality air. Good air quality at every opportunity will reduce wear on the entire system and keep down maintenance costs. It will also keep pressure up by eliminating any pressure loss through other filters.

5. Proper Maintenance – Planning your system well from the beginning will clearly reduce maintenance. Monitoring your system regularly is always a good plan as well. Many compressor manufacturers have maintenance services and can keep your compressor up to snuff. Letting a certified technician look over your compressor and system is not a bad idea of you are not staffed for this task. A well maintained compressor will last a long time can allow you to anticipate the service life of the machine and its components.

Kirk Edwards
Application Engineer
KirkEdwards@exair.com

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Saving the Business with a Simple Fix

August 16, 2010 — japanfalone

I received a call from a customer who was in a panic. He does auto detailing for car dealers. He said that it is a competitive business and if you fail to deliver once, you lose your chance to bid for any future jobs.

His  business has been successful beyond his goals and the growth has put a strain on his equipment, especially his central vacuum system. Adding more work stations has demanded more vacuum capacity. Not being able to run a vacuum at all the workstations at one time was causing production to back up. He was getting perilously close to not meeting promised delivery dates and did not have time to quote and install a new vacuum system.

EXAIR suggested using a Vac U Gun transfer system to clean the interiors and direct its vacuum hose into the central system. This way the Vac U Gun does all the work and the central system just provided the air flow to carry it away. In his words “it worked like a charm”.  He worked down the back log, and met his delivery dates.

The Vac U Gun is simplicity in itself. There are a multitude of applications that it solves. If you have an application that you would like to discuss, feel welcomed to call and ask to speak with one of our applications engineers.

Joe Panfalone
Application Engineer
joepanfalone@exair.com

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The Cold Gun Really Does Work!

August 13, 2010 — bdfarno

“The High Power Cold Gun really does work!”  That’s a statement a customer I spoke with recently told me during a phone conversation.   Our catalog and flyer had come across his desk many years ago and he had just passed it by like it was another piece of junk mail.   Well when his application suddenly went from being able to use liquid coolant to having to cut dry, his cycle times and process times greatly increased.  He searched for a solution to the problem he was seeing and the tooling manufacturers were trying different coatings and his operators were trying to get him to reprogram the part.  He knew there was a way to avoid all of these recommendations but could not find it.  Until, he was sitting at his desk and remembered seeing EXAIR on a piece of paper with an Aircoolant system.  He did a quick search on the internet and found our homepage. 

Once he was on our site he immediately found the Cold Gun Aircoolant System.  He ordered a 5330, a High Power Cold Gun System w/ two cold outlets.  When he got the unit in, he immediately hooked it to the machine and fixed the nozzle to dispense the cold air directly at his cutter contact area.   The part ran and for the first time since they had started running the process dry, the machine was cutting a good part at his old cycle time. 

The operators couldn’t understand it and the owner even had a hard time himself.   That was until the machine stopped and they felt how cold the air was coming out of the Cold Gun and they saw the finish on the part.  They put it on several different applications that were running into similar problems with surface finish and tool life and it proved to be a worthy tool for their production line.  

Recently, he had a business acquaintance contact him with a similar problem on a stainless steel milling application.   Our customer immediately recommended the Cold Gun to him and even gave him one from his own machine to try out. 

It is interactions like this that help us to succeed and we thank all of our customers for these interactions.  This is also how we are able to have a case study for every product we offer. 

This is just one of many customer applications that we have helped with over the years.  Our application index and case study files are yet another way that we are able to help our future and existing customers with their compressed air needs.   If you have an application you aren’t sure we have done before, please contact us and let us know.  If it hasn’t been tried before, we’ll do our best to help you find an EXAIR product to make it work.

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