It’s finally spring! Your customers may lay up their boilers for the season, and you should know what’s important for the automation equipment as well as the entire system. Boiler lay up procedures are easy – here are some quick…
Author: Lloyd Brown
CT Controller Selection Guide
When your customer is ready to add automation or upgrade their cooling tower controller, use our CT Controller Selection Guide to pick the best choice. Even if you have a “favorite” controller that you love, a simple run-through of your…
Boiler Water Treatment Automation Options
Lakewood Instruments boiler controllers give you great flexibility in operation schemes. You can choose from three boiler water treatment automation control schemes: Continuous Sample – a steady, small blowdown that substantially increases via setpoint control. Sample/Cycle – a periodic cycle…
When the conductivity reads “0”
For our Model 1575e and Model 140 controllers, we get calls with this status fairly often. Cooling tower conductivity sensor troubleshooting is something we do every day. In the end, most of the time you just need to initialize the…
Cycles of Concentration Control
One of the blowdown control strategies available on the 1575e & NexSys platforms is “Cycles of Concentration.” We get many questions regarding how it works. In simple terms, it represents how long fresh make-up water can be circulated in the…
Is Your Boiler Conductivity Sensor Working?
What do you do when your boiler conductivity sensor is not giving you the right reading? There are a few simple things you can check to determine whether your sensor is the problem or if something else is going on.…
Fuses – What You Need to Know
There are two fuses in Lakewood 1500 series controllers. One is a 100mA, 250VAC Slow-Blow fuse. The other is a Fast-Blow 10A, 250VAC fuse. This article will discuss why they can blow and how you can troubleshoot the source of…
Seasonal Maintenance for Cooling Tower Automation
Depending on where you are in North America, the seasons are definitely changing. While we are all experiencing shorter daylight hours, some are going from dozens of consecutive days over 100F to highs in the “comfortable” 90’s. Others are waking…
Understanding Alarms from 1575e Controllers
Model 1575e controllers are versatile and compact, and they can display various alarms based on how you set them up. This article outlines the alarms, what they mean, and what you can do about them. If you have a Model…
Choose Your Boiler Controller
Need a controller for a new boiler installation? Time for a refresh or upgrade? Here is the easy comparison to help you through Lakewood’s choices for Boiler applications. For boilers, we have three choices: Model 150, Model 1575e, and Nexys…