Child-friendly radiator
Play is a colorful radiator designed for use in schools, nurseries, classrooms, or children’s bedrooms. It features soft, rounded corners and a surface that remains cool to the touch. The unit combines five polyurethane-painted medium-density-fiber (MDF) boards in a simple and easy-to-detach design. Its thermostat control is locked into the design, preventing undesired temperature changes. It can be used in conjunction with heat pumps, geothermal systems, solar energy systems, and condensing boilers.
—Jaga Climate Systems
Industrial wireless sensors
Sentry I is a line of industrial wireless sensors that are enclosed in a weatherproof NEMA- (Type 1, 2, 4, 4X, 12, and 13) rated housing and listed to UL508-4x specifications. They are designed to efficiently and effectively monitor and capture real-time energy and asset data at facilities where weather or harsh conditions prevent regular sensor use. The data captured is seamlessly integrated into the Sentry Online Dashboard, providing a complete picture of the customer’s property. The sensors are powered by a replaceable AA battery; some also offer a solar-powered option.
—Energy Resource Products
Building-information-modeling software
ArchiCAD 16 software is designed to change the way users access custom building-information-modeling (BIM) components. ArchiCAD’s new modeling capabilities, connected with its cloud-based BIM-components database, allow users to create, search, upload, and download custom BIM components of their choice. The fully integrated web portal makes sharing BIM components a core community function. BIMcomponents.com provides a central marketplace for all geometric description language (GDL) objects to directly reach ArchiCAD users when and where they need them.
—Graphisoft
Compressor hoist
The HVAC Breeze service cart and roof-hatch-gantry compressor-change-out hoist is small and lightweight and collapses for transport, yet can pull compressors weighing up to 250 lb. The gantry measures 4-ft wide at the header, 73-in. high from header to ground, and weighs about 40 lb. A video is available at www.hvacbreeze.com/hvac-breeze-video.html.
—Wyse Industrial Carts
Water-source heat pump
The Tranquility Compact (TC) belt-drive water-source heat pump is now available in four sizes: 13.3 tons, 16 tons, 20 tons, and 25 tons. These sizes are only available in a vertical cabinet. The TC series has an extended-range refrigerant circuit capable of ground-loop, ground-water, and water-loop (boiler-tower) applications. Vertical unit configurations can be ordered with front or back return air and top, front, or back supply-air discharge. The units’ small footprint allows them to be installed in tight spaces. Available options include a coated air coil, DDC controls, dual-point power, a cupronickel water coil, and a sound-absorbing UltraQuiet package.
—ClimateMaster
Draft simulator
The Draft Simulator is a hand-held, battery-operated instrument that can calibrate and test adjustable and factory-set pressure switches. The instrument produces a sustainable vacuum pressure, allowing the user to simulate the pressures produced by draft inducers. It can be used in any commercial or industrial application on any piece of equipment equipped with a pressure switch.
—Good Day Tools
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