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…
Cooling Tower Conductivity Controller Selection Guide
When your customer is ready to add automation or upgrade their cooling tower conductivity 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…
Boiler Water Treatment Automation Options
Lakewood Instruments boiler automation controllers give you great flexibility in operation schemes. You can choose from three boiler blowdown control systems: Continuous Sample – a steady, small blowdown that substantially increases via setpoint control. Sample/Cycle – a periodic cycle of…
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: Boilers & Cooling Towers
One of the automated blowdown control strategies available on the Lakewood Instruments 1575e & NexSys platforms is “Cycles of Concentration.” We get many questions regarding how it works. How to Calculate Cycles of Concentration In simple terms, it represents how…
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…