EDITOR’S CHOICE
CLIMATE CONTROL
RITTAL
NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION - MAKE IMPROVEMENTS
NOW TO BE READY FOR NEXT SUMMER!
The temperatures may be feeling quite
mild, but even if the thermometer hasn’t
yet regularly dropped below zero, you’re
probably no longer hearing the alarms
on your cooling units. While this is
likely to mean you’re spending less time
maintaining overheating panels, it would
be a mistake to forget about climate
control.
In fact, the opposite is true; this is actually
the best time of year to turn your mind to
your enclosures, carry out a climate review,
and start to understand what changes or
improvements need to be made.
Last summer, of course, things were
very different. Fans and filters weren’t
cutting it as the ambient temperature
in the workplace was higher than you
wanted inside your enclosures! Now that
everything has settled down, it’s worth
assessing any problem enclosures and
making the necessary changes to ensure
that this summer you are free to spend
your time on tasks other than firefighting.
It’s important to remember that every
degree above your set-point will be time
removed from the life of your expensive
equipment, including PLCs, variable speed
drives and transformers. Collectively,
this can easily have a replacement value
that tops £100k, even in a relatively small
setup. If you replace only 2% of that
equipment each year because of burnt-out
componentry, then the costs can quickly
mount up and it’s an entirely unnecessary
spend.
But it’s not just the cost of repair and
replacement of the actual componentry.
There are also the add-on operations costs
caused by componentry breaking down
and stopping the processes it controls.
This lost output will continue for as long
as it takes to repair the fault, and is bound
to have consequences for your wider
business, impacting productivity and
efficiency, and thereby reducing profits.
Correct climate control is often overlooked
during the installation of electronic
equipment because the focus is all on
the equipment, not on regulating the
environment that it operates within.
This is where Rittal can help you, we are
the world leaders in enclosure climate
control products and pride ourselves on
being your trusted advisor.
With our RiAssure service, one of our
trained staff can visit you and provide
a FREE Cooling Review. This review is a
short visual inspection of your existing
enclosures and cooling equipment; from
this we can ascertain the next best step
for your equipment and also provide
ongoing, best practice, suggestions so that
your operations benefit from increased
longevity, life and profit.
So make this your resolution for 2019 and
reap the benefits of the optimising your
climate control.
For more information visit
www.rittal.co.uk or on twitter @rittal_
ltd. To arrange a FREE cooling review,
go online, call our customer service
team on 01709 704000, or email
[email protected].
Enclosure Climate Control
Whatever the scale......
......we have the solution
ENCLOSURES
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PECM Issue 36
POWER DISTRIBUTION
CLIMATE CONTROL