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Improved Controller Quick Start Guides

Lakewood Instruments has recently upgraded our controller quick start guides – simple documents to get you up and running with new controllers. These guides contain easy to follow, color diagrams of step by step procedures on wiring, plumbing, and overall…

Boiler Lay Up Procedures

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…

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…

Lakewood Instruments boiler conductivity sensor

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…

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