The latest technology in air-con/heat-pump Wi-Fi smart phone control

The latest technology in air-con/heat-pump Wi-Fi smart phone control

The Pebble Wi-Fi controller bridges the gap between the rapidly developing smart-phone industry and the residential heating and cooling industry. The Pebble Wi-Fi controller uses patented technology, which allows for a secure connection to your local wireless router through your smart-phone. Once securely connected to your wireless router you will be able to controller your air-con/heat-pump through our smart-phone app Pebble Air. All Android or iOS (Apple) smart-phones and devices can download our free app from Google Play or the App Store. Communication to your air-con/heat-pump is via three powerful infrared (iR) diodes each with a maximum emitting range of up to 15metres. Designed for various mounting options, The Pebble Wi-Fi controller has front and also top iR emitters with an optional fourth plug in iR Pebble emitter which allows for an even more flexible and discreet solution. The Pebble Wi-Fi controller has an in-built temperature sensor which allows for real time readings at your home or office. If you need to turn on your air-con/heat-pump, change its mode, adjust the set temperature, fan speed or even set up or change a schedule, it’s right at your finger tips.

Cloud based, The Pebble Wi-Fi controller has the flexibility to keep your Pebble unit updated at all times. We have the ability to broadcast to our Pebble community adding cool stuff we currently have under development, new supplier air-con/heat-pumps as they're released and much, much more.

Key Product Features:

The Pebble offers multi-user functionality with real time reporting to all connected users. Changes you make to your air-con/heat-pump will be updated real-time to all shared users. The pebble software licence allows for unlimited connected users

Simply plug in and play, no fuss, no wiring required. The Pebble is designed for easy installation for homeowners and installers, there is no wiring, no technicians, no fuss.

Security when connecting to your Wi-Fi router is a priority. Patented technology allows for a seamless fully secure connection.

For information on pricing email us on 

info@orionair.co.uk  

Tel: +44 (0)845 567 7080

The Mayor Of Bedford Comes To Millennium Studios Bedford

16 August 2011

The mayor of Bedford Dave Hodgson visited the Millennium Studios Bedford, Bedfordshire UK for a site tour of the areas premier music and production facility. Mayor Hodgson was shown around site by Ronan Wilson of Millennium Studios and also paid a visit to many of the companies on the Bedford Technology site including Orion Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Limited UK where he posed for a picture with Fiona McCurrach (International Sales Manager) and Marianna Zona (Sales Executive). Orion Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Limited market and distribute air conditioning, refrigeration and hybrid energy equipment world-wide and mayor Hodgson was shown some of the products and services they provide.

Why choose Daikin air conditioning?

WHY CHOOSE DAIKIN?

As experts in our field and recognised within the industry, we see it as our responsibility to ensure customers are confident with our range of technological leading edge products. Daikin Airconditioning UK Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Daikin Europe NV. The focus of our business is the sales and distribution of Daikin air conditioning products whilst fully utilising the advantage of our European Group Manufacturing Division. Over 70 years of precision and innovation has helped Daikin build a worldwide reputation for quality and technology

THE PRODUCT

Daikin offers an extensive range of advanced air conditioning equipment – encompassing split, multi split, packaged, VRV and chilled water – for residential, commercial and industrial applications. Technological advances are evident across the full range of products. For example, Inverter technology has been applied to all split and multi split systems, which are especially suited to shops, restaurants and small offices. This technology provides a more comfortable environment and offers substantial savings in energy consumption. The type of air conditioning product chosen is only part of today’s drive for energy efficiency. The choice of Daikin controls to achieve maximum efficiency and comfort is infinite. Intelligent control systems from entry level to multiple air conditioning systems are available. The levels of expertise available within Daikin UK includes a team of control specialists, the facility of a control management helpdesk and remote monitoring and control of building systems.

COMPRESSORS, ELECTRONICS AND CHEMICALS

Daikin knows that the compressor is the heart of the air conditioner. It is produced in-house to ensure it meets Daikin’s strict quality control. If the compressor represents the heart of the system, the electronics are surely the brain. Electronic expansion valves monitor and regulate compressor capacity by varying the frequency of the power supply. This ensures a balanced and pleasant indoor environment without large scale fluctuations in room temperature. Daikin is the only air conditioning manufacturer in the world to produce refrigerant chemicals. The company is therefore in a unique and enviable position to research and develop alternative refrigerants and apply them to both new and existing equipment. It enables equipment to be designed around and tested with an individual refrigerant – in fact, optimised to ensure compatibility, performance and long term operating reliability. It is the unique combination of these three factors, integral to the company’s core business, that has led to worldwide recognition that Daikin is indeed the only true air conditioning specialist.

SALES SUPPORT, TRAINING AND COMMUNICATION

Daikin UK's position as the leading innovator in the market is the result of the close communication and co-operation between our D1 Partners, customers and staff. The Daikin high quality standard depends on it. The company is structured to ensure flexibility to each sector of our business. An external sales team provides extensive cover throughout the UK, supported by internal sales and full after-sales support. Within the team are dedicated specialists who consolidate consultant demands by developing a working relationship that does not invade their design responsibility but assists by application solving – for example, using case study reference material. We have gained considerable experience in supply partnerships with national accounts operating on the high street and within the commercial sector. Our capability to develop business in this sector is far reaching, from competitive price structures to detailed feedback data, extended warranty and training for the contractors approved by the national account client. The Daikin UK sales team are quietly confident that between them and a comprehensive Field Quality Support Team anything is possible and indeed that is normally the case. We are also in a position to recommend companies as Daikin Approved Installers who are part of our D1 Partner Network, which extends throughout the UK. The philosophy of this network is that, through the medium of partnerships, business can be developed for mutual benefit and loyalty is rewarded. The approval bears significant recognition, with engineers given access to an extensive Daikin UK training programme. D1 Partner companies are able to provide an extended five year warranty on all Daikin equipment subject to terms and conditions. Daikin UK also recognizes that training is the first step to making our customers self sufficient and therefore, in a position to need help only with the more difficult situations. It is important that the customer is engaged in the selection, application and installation of the products with trust and clarity.

WAREHOUSING AND LOGISTICS

The sales and distribution network within Europe is further enhanced to ensure customer satisfaction by our activities in the UK. Warehousing facilities at multiple distribution centres hold local stocks. Every day, week and month trucks deliver products from the Ostend factory to these centres. Each distribution centre also carries extensive stocks of spares and accessories and is equipped with its own fleet of modern delivery vehicles to maintain a regular and dependable supply chain to the UK customer base. All Daikin UK offices are linked with each other and European headquarters in Ostend by a fully integrated computer network, enabling close communication between field sales and technical departments to be maintained at all times for the benefit of customers throughout the country.

QUALITY

Since its formation in 1972, Daikin Europe has evolved from a component assembly plant into a full production unit that meets all European manufacturing standards. The specific quality requirements of the European market are taken into account and high priority is assigned by Daikin Europe to research, resulting in optimised unit capacity and quality. Following the factories in Japan, Daikin Europe received the ISO9001 certificate in 1993. ISO9001 certification is the customers guarantee that close attention is paid to quality during all stages of design and production, as well as after sales. It also guarantees that the quality system itself is audited regularly, both internally and by external bodies.

COMMITMENT TO THE ENVIRONMENT

Daikin's dedicated commitment towards improving the quality of the environment has been rewarded with the coveted ISO 14001 certification. ISO 14001 provides assurance that "Daikin has an effective environmental management system in place to protect both man and the environment from the potential impact of its manufacturing activities, products and services while helping to maintain and to improve the overall quality of the environment." Daikin is thought to be one of the first air conditioning manufacturers to receive such recognition. Government legislation prohibiting the use of toxic substances and the generation of pollutants has slowed down the destruction of the environment. Daikin Europe is proud to have been pro-active in this respect, closely following its Japanese parent in implementing policies that have often pre-emptied official legislative codes and directives. As a result, a culture of ‘environmental management’ implemented since 2001 plays a key role in the company’s day to day activities and development strategies.

Refrigeration services and products to suit almost any commercial need

we provide a range of refrigeration services and products to suit almost any commercial need. Our experienced professional team and state of the art refrigeration technology ensures that we can supply and install quality refrigeration systems. We understand the need for excellent and reliable refrigeration products, especially in the food and drinks industry, where it is essential that your products are kept sufficiently chilled and safe to consume.

From cold rooms and large storage freezers, to cellar coolers and display chillers and freezers, we can design your ideal refrigeration system and install it to the excellent standards you'd expect from a leading refrigeration company. We also have the expertise and equipment to provide refrigeration for laboratories and pharmacies where it is vital medicines and resources are kept at the appropriate temperature for safe use.

Evaporative Cooler EH1092 powerful 3 speed motor and e-flow Technology for effective cooling

The Evaporative Cooler has a powerful 3 speed motor which allows you to set your required level of comfort and also boasts E-flow Technology - this keeps pads evenly wet, resulting in more effective cooling. Other features of this durable unit include a unique Water Shield; this plastic cap protects the motor and pump from water humidity and splashing, an ice chamber where you can add ice for an extra cooling effect, a dust filter net to capture particles and provide cleaner air plus automatic swing vertical louvres to provide a wide distribution of air.

Key Product Features:

• Water level indicator
• Easily accessible cooling pads
• Manual water drain system
• Humidity controls
• Fitted with castors ~ for easy mobility
Colour White
Dimensions 91x50x38cm
Weight 12kg
Fan speed settings (Fan only setting) 3
Mode Settings -
Remote control -
Control panel Manual
Adjustable humidification level yes
Timer (hours) -
Internal oscillating louvres yes
Adjustable front louvres yes
Ioniser yes
Filter type Celdek
Cooling pads Celdek
Supplied with freezer element -
Supplied with ice packs yes
Water tank capacity (litres) 20
Water level indicator yes
Water level alarm system -
Water tank entry Top
Manual water drain system yes
Fitted castors yes
Built-in carry handles yes
Airflow (m³/minute - max) 1200
Airflow volume (m³/h max) 11
Noise level dB(A) 85
Power (W) 190
Voltage (V) 240
Frequency (Hz) 50
Indoor product dimensions (HxWxD cm) 91x50x38
Box dimensions (HxWxD cm) 93x55.6x43.6
Net weight (kg) 12
Gross weight (kg) 14
Cat Ref HICOOL

UK Air Conditioning Firm avoids £50k scam thanks to vigilant bank

BY KEELEY KNOWLES

A business had a lucky escape from a suspected scam after being asked to transfer almost £50,000 to a company in Dubai.
Orion Air Conditioning & Refrigeration Ltd, based at Bedford Technology Park, Thurleigh, was initially contacted by a man called ‘John’ who said he was from A-Four General Trading LLC in Dubai last month. He wanted to order around £5,000 of solar panels to be delivered to the country.
The sales team sent him an invoice with the firm’s bank details so he could pay the sum.
But earlier this month, Sean Handley, sales director at Orion, said they received notification from their bank – Lloyds TSB – about a cheque paid in to the branch in the High Street, Bedford, suspected to be fraudulent/counterfeit of £49,600.
In the meantime the company had received an email from the same address – this time from somebody called Mike – asking to confirm the payment ‘as soon as possible to enable us to proceed’.
It said that due to an ‘erroneous blunder made by the financial department’ they issued Orion’s payment with another company’s payment – therefore resulting in the £49,600 instead of the £4,797.
Mr Handley said: “The scariest thing about this is that somebody actually went into our branch bank in Bedford to pay in the cheque. We do deal with companies in Dubai so had no reason to suspect the order initially and so sent them our bank details.
“But what happens is that they then say they have overpaid you and ask you to transfer the money back to their account. While it shows on your account, it hasn’t actually cleared, so if you transfer the money then you’ll be out of pocket.” Mr Handley said he contacted the named ‘drawer’ of the cheque – an independent retailing and distribution company CJ Lang & Son Ltd, based in Dundee, and was told that somebody had stolen their cheque book a number of years ago.
He added: “When I spoke to them they said they had received a few calls about it. Luckily, Lloyds Bank is on the ball with this sort of thing and flagged it up before it got any further.” A spokeswoman for Bedfordshire Police said that a statement would be taken from Mr Handley and his colleague next month but it was likely the case would be referred to a police force in Scotland.
A spokesman for C J Lang & Son Ltd said: “We do not have a trading relationship with Orion nor have we issued any cheques to them.
“The cheque which Orion received is undoubtedly a forgery. We are grateful to Orion for making us aware of this attempted fraud and we have advised our bankers accordingly.”
A spokesman for Lloyds said: “We take fraud extremely seriously. We have a range of measures in place to help detect and prevent instances of fraud, but we also urge our customers to remain vigilant to suspicious activity relating to their businesses.” We could find no record of A-Four General Trading LLC in Dubai.

Heat pumps are bringing benefits to our Commercial buildings

With the excitement being created by rapidly growing application of heat pumps in the residential sector to replace conventional central heating boilers, it is often mistakenly thought that this is a recent innovation, this is not the case; heat pumps have been with us for over 50 years, indeed they are a dominant feature in the commercial buildings sector.


What we are seeing in the residential sector is the emergence of air or ground source-to-water heat pumps, which can satisfy space heating and domestic hot water requirements utilising conventional heat emitters - radiators, fan coil units or underfloor heating and hot water storage cylinders. Heat Pumps being part renewable, part electric technology, achieve far greater operating efficiencies than all electric or fossil fuel (gas or oil), combustion based boilers. Heat pumps have been recognised as being capable of helping us reach our carbon emission reduction targets not to mention greatly reducing our household heating bills.

In the commercial sector the pre-eminent heat pump is the air source air-to-air type, which can satisfy the space heating and cooling requirements, however, the sanitary hot water services are still mainly provided by secondary systems such as all electric or gas/oil fired boilers.

Pre 1990's most commercial buildings were cooled by air or water-cooled chillers circulating chilled water to wall mounted or ducted fan coil units and heated by conventional 'wet' central heating systems, either utilising the same fan coil units or radiators. In the mid 1980's, Daikin Industries developed an ingenious new heat pump technology called Variable Refrigerant Volume or VRV. This revolutionised the commercial air conditioning market because, for the first time there was a single system that could efficiently cool and heat commercial buildings, reducing dependence on energy guzzling boilers, which would now only be needed, in smaller capacities, for providing hot water.

What's more, VRV could offer simultaneous cooling and heating from the same system by re-distributing waste or rejected heat that would otherwise discharged to atmosphere! VRV offered many other benefits apart from superior energy efficiency, it was a modular concept so proved much more flexible in terms of the space it occupied and in programming the installation works.


Daikin Air Heat Pumps












Electrical loads were reduced and the speed with which VRV was able to respond to demand was far quicker than any chilled water/secondary heating system.
No surprise then that modular VRV (and later derivatives known as VRF) overtook central chiller systems in terms of popularity in the commercial sector.

However, certain commercial applications remain better suited to chiller systems, for example in large areas with a single temperature set-point or where response times are less critical, spaces with larger cooling loads or very high ceilings.

So has chiller development learned any lessons from the success of VRV? - Heat pump chillers have also been available for some years but at a premium that hindered their success. Such chillers could only operate in cooling or heating. In heating mode, there were limitations and in certain conditions a secondary heating source would still be required to satisfy the heating demand. This has been largely resolved with the more recent introduction of inverter technology (which VRV/VRF had adopted years earlier). Inverter technology enables the heat pump chiller's compressor/s to be boosted, in more extreme conditions, with a frequency increase that exactly follows the required thermal load, resulting in a wider operating range and reducing or eliminating the need for secondary heating.

Heat recovery, heat pump chillers manage to get a little closer to VRV/VRF capabilities because, the chillers offer cooling and heating as before - but - in cooling mode, heat absorbed from the conditioned space and from the compressors, instead of being rejected to atmosphere, is recovered and directed to a second heat exchanger. The recovered heat energy can then be used in areas calling for heating or passed to a thermal storage facility for hot water. In this way chillers can offer simultaneous heating and cooling, a common requirement in commercial buildings, at remarkably high efficiencies.

To manage the heating and cooling requirements of our commercial buildings it's not so much a question of why install heat pumps rather than other technology? More the fact that no other systems offer anything like equivalent energy efficiency and cost effectiveness. A fact that we in the industry trust will be acknowledged in the government's soon to be announced Renewable Heat Incentive.

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. and Hitachi Ltd today announced that they have been jointly selected b

Tokyo – Mitsubishi Corporation (MC: TSE/8058), Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI:TSE/7011) and Hitachi Ltd. (Hitachi: TSE/6501, NYSE/HIT) today announced that they have been jointly selected by The New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) as participants in a Smart Community*System Demonstration Project (Project) in the area surrounding Malaga-city, Andalucia, in southern Spain.
Comprising a feasibility study to be conducted until July 29, 2011, and a subsequent demonstration phase that will carry through to the end of March, 2016, the Project was made possible by deregulations in Spain’s electric power market and advantages they present in implementing large amounts of renewable energy. It will be enhanced by leveraging state-of-the-art Japanese technologies in renewable energy, energy conservation, and smart communities. NEDO, MC, MHI and Hitachi hope the Project will give rise to other opportunities for Japanese companies to develop smart community businesses around the world.
The feasibility study will be conducted in two phases : the first to verify the amount of CO2 emissions produced by major public services in Malaga City; and the second to determine how best to reduce these.
The demonstration phase will focus on the transportation and electric power sectors. Infrastructure will be installed to facilitate greater use of electric vehicles (EVs), including EV chargers, an EV center, and the vehicles themselves. A smart grid will be set up to ensure electricity is supplied smoothly and safely to the vehicles, as well as integrated ICT platforms to connect the new infrastructure to the city’s existing power systems.
The details of scope of the demonstration operations will be defined by NEDO, upon consultation with specialists following the feasibility study phase.
This Project will be conducted under the Japan Spain Innovation Programme (JSIP**). MC will offer its global business expertise, while MHI will contribute its Technology Integration/Intelligent Transport System. Hitachi’s involvement will be through incorporation of their energy management and ICT systems. Cooperating on the Project will be Endesa S.A. and Telefonica, Spain’s biggest electric power and ICT companies respectively.
*
A smart community is one that comprehensively manages all types of energy, including electricity, heat and waste energy, and integrates transportation and other infrastructure. It incorporates an advanced type of smart grid, which efficiently controls electricity supply and demand by means of ICT. Countries around the world have been promoting smart community projects to help build sustainable societies that have a stable supply of energy, prevent global warming and stimulate economic growth.
Creating smart communities, requires an understanding of how societies function in terms of their energy supply and demand, and their potential use of renewable energy; but knowledge of different lifestyles is also very important. In this respect, smart community development goes beyond technology. Demonstration projects like this one in Spain should help to identify many of the social components that need to be considered.
**
The JSIP enables parallel funding for joint projects between Japan and Spain to develop technologies, with the provision that the Japanese companies involved are already approved for funding from NEDO, and the Spanish companies involved are approved for funding from CDTI (Centro para el Desarrollo Tccnological Industrial). NEDO and CDTI agreed to foster cooperative research, development and demonstration of smart grid-related technologies by signing a letter of intent in September 2010.
Endesa S.A., Telefonica, Sadiel and Malaga City will participate in the Project.
ABOUT Mitsubishi Corporation
Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) is Japan’s largest general trading company (sogo shosha) with over 200 bases of operations in approximately 80 countries worldwide. Together with its over 500 group companies, MC employs a multinational workforce of approximately 60,000 people. MC has long been engaged in business with customers around the world in virtually every industry, including energy, metals, machinery, chemicals, food and general merchandise.MC seeks to contribute to the enrichment of society through business firmly rooted in principles of fairness and integrity.
For more information on Mitsubishi Corporation, please visit the company’s website at http://www.mitsubishicorp.com/jp/en/.
ABOUT MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. (MHI), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, Is one of the world’s leading heavy machinery manufacturers, with consolidated sales of 2,940.8 billion yen in fiscal year 2009 ended March 31, 2010. MHI’s diverse lineup of products and services encompasses shipbuilding, power plants, chemical plants, environmental equipment, steel structures, industrial and general machinery, aircraft, space rocketry and air-conditioning systems. For more information, please visit the MHI website (http://www.mhi.co.jp/en/index.html).
ABOUT HITACHI
Hitachi, Ltd., (NYSE: HIT / TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately 360,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2009 (ended March 31, 2010) consolidated revenues totaled 8,968 billion yen ($96.4 billion). Hitachi will focus more than ever on the Social Innovation Business, which includes information and telecommunication systems, power systems, environmental, industrial and transportation systems, and social and urban systems, as well as the sophisticated materials and key devices that support them. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company’s website at http://www.hitachi.com.

Daikin Industries, Ltd. announces the establishment of the Technology and Innovation Center

Daikin Industries, Ltd. announces the establishment of the Technology and Innovation Center (floor area: approx. 58,000 m2; hereinafter referred to as "TIC") at its Yodogawa Plant (Settsu City, Osaka Prefecture). The facility is intended as a technology development base where air conditioning and chemical researchers work closely with product development engineers from various company divisions, and the disciplines of mechanical and chemical engineering are integrated with the fields of electrical and electronic engineering. Construction of the center begins in May 2011 at an investment cost of approximately 30 billion yen. Operation is scheduled to start from November 2014.

Because Daikin is rapidly expanding its worldwide presence in the fields of air conditioning and fluorochemicals centering on emerging markets, the ability to launch timely products to meet the specific needs of each regional market becomes the key for further growth of the company.

For this reason, clarifying priorities and roles for a wide-range of research and development themes becomes essential. Consequently, even as Daikin continues to strengthen the "local R&D function" that discerns and incorporates local needs, Daikin also recognizes the necessity to have one place (TIC) for concentrating on themes that have universal applications and greatly contribute to the overall global business, including core and common technologies, so that results can be quickly generated.

On this background emphasizing the development of core and common technologies along with maintaining base model products, the TIC will serve as the primary facility of the Daikin Group for promoting global technology development and achieving innovations through "development of global No. 1 environmental technologies," "surviving in the forthcoming decades," and "challenging destructive innovation of heat pump technology that has progressed for 100 years."

By concentrating approximately 1,000 R&D personnel (to increase to 1,600 employees in the future) from three bases in Japan (each production base of Sakai, Shiga, and Yodogawa), Daikin intends to promote information sharing and communication in order to widen the efficiency of and increase speed in the development of core technology such as heat pump, inverter, and fluorochemicals.

Furthermore, the TIC will function as a "training ground" for overseas engineers to learn shared values and ways of R&D of Daikin. It will also serve as a venue encouraging exchanges between fellow engineers from various fields inside and outside the company and promote "open innovation," which is generated from the fusion of new technology and knowledge, as Daikin sets its sights on realizing "collaborative creation" innovation.



[Special Characteristics of TIC]
The TIC employs a "knowledge flow structure" which circulates people, knowledge and information, and is comprised by three functional zones: "Theme Execution Zone," "Theme Creation Zone," and "Open Zone."

(1) Theme Execution Zone: describes a large stadium-like layered office space where 1,000 engineers can be seated and "testing rooms adjacent to the office that are visible by glass walls." This zone also provides test facilities with the world's highest standard.

The aim is to promote communication and collaboration among engineers by enabling openness of ongoing developments and minimizing the distance between the office and laboratory to accelerate optimum development speed.

(2) Theme Creation Zone: aims for innovative creation generated by engineers inspired by information from within and outside the company and becoming absorbed in discussions with engineers from other fields and outside specialists. For this purpose, the TIC provides various types of discussion rooms and rooms for invited outside specialists. By providing a good balance for communication between users, space for concentration of individual engineers, this zone offer a collaboration-suited environment that facilitates the creation of new research and development themes.

(3) Open zone: promotes open innovation with those outside the company with a "showroom" where exhibition of Daikin technologies offer solution ideas to various kinds of visitors (e.g customers and academic researchers), a "forest of knowledge" where exhibition of the latest technologies (e.g. in house prototypes and new outside products encourage engineers and researchers to discuss freely on technological trends.) , and a large hall where 1,600 engineers can assemble and be inspired by innovative ideas from presentation of outside specialists.


[Test facilities serving as the world's highest standard]
TIC aims for "world's highest technology development environment" by providing test facilities constructed to the highest global standard as core facilities for technology development."

"Air conditioning (VRV) testing tower with the altitude difference of 100m"
[To lead the world in air conditioning testing]
• Product reliability is expected to improve by reproducing actual installation conditions for air conditioning by having the highest tower in Japan to perform height differential testing for building type multi air conditioners (VRV).


The environment chamber capable of simulating various environments found in the regional markets (outside air temperatures ranging from -40ºC to +60ºC, sunlight, wind, rain, and similar conditions) and environment testing room that authentically reproduces the conditions of an actual residence. [World-leading]
• It is a major global facility for an air conditioner manufacturer. Testing with simulation of actual installation conditions of each regional market contributes to improved product reliability. Furthermore, Daikin will be able to promote actual verification and testing of renewed spatial value creation by enabling testing of an entire residence.

"An anechoic chamber where electromagnetic noise of indoor and outdoor units are measured at the same time in order to meet noise regulations of each regional market" [First in Japan]
• A double-deck turntable enables to measure noise levels of indoor and outdoor units at the same time, which leads to meet the needs of regional market.


END


[Summary of Technology and Innovation Center]
1) Facility Summary: Technology and Innovation Center
Floor area: approx 58,000m2 contained in a 5-story building constructed on site area of 50,000 m2
2) Facility Structure: office building, testing building, and general affairs building
3) Location: Settsu City, Osaka Prefecture (within existing Yodogawa Plant)
4) Purpose: To improve product development efficiency by centralizing the technology development function and create innovative products through technology fusion activities.
5) Opening schedule: November 2014
6) Investment: approx. 30 billion yen
Image Drawing

Solar Charge Controller SDCC-5 10A / 12v 24v

Solar Charge Controller SDCC-5 10A / 12v 24v

Wind / Solar Charge Controller SDCC-5 10A / 12v 24v: (PWM) technology to regulate battery voltage to prevent overcharge. This generation of voltage regulation saw the end of the need for bulky heat sinks to dissipate excess energy generated by the windcharger and, more importantly for the lifetime of the windcharger, introduced speed limiting to the turbine when the battery is full.

Key Product Features:

Type - SDCC-10
Rated charge current:10A
Rated load current: 10A
Work voltage: 12V / 24V
Over load, short circuit protection: 1.25 rated load current 60sec, 1.5 rated loads current 5sec, over load protection action. Ý3 Rated load current short circuit protection action.
Quiescent current: 6 mA
Charge circuit voltage drop: 26V
Load circuit voltage drop: 15V
Over voltage protection: 17V; ×2/24V
Work temperature Industry stage: -35 DEGC to +55 DegC Commercial stage -5 DegC to +50DegC
Boost charge voltage: 14.6V; ×2/24V (keep 10min)
Direct charge voltage: 14.4V; ×2/24V (keep 10min)
Float charge voltage: 13.6V; ×2/24V
charge return voltage: 13.2v
Temperature compensation -5mv (Boost charge, Direct charge, Float charge, charge return voltage);
Lower voltage indicate: 12.0V ×2/24V
Over discharge voltage: 11.1V no load- modified voltage by discharge rate of battery ×2/24V
Over discharge return voltage: 13.1 V; ×2/24V
Over-discharge pressed return voltage: 12.4V; ×2/24V
Control mode PWM charge mode; modified discharge voltage by the discharge rate