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Thanks for coming back to update on this post.
If you have any large sites that have more than 1 JACE or 1 really full JACE you can also consider an industrial PC to act as the JACE that will have tons more memory and versatility for VPN etc. ...
I'll have to pay more attention to this I've not noticed this unless part of what I'm working on pushes against the edge of the canvas and it cannot move any further in that direction.
I'm glad our IT doesn't do all that to our laptops. :)
At my university we have a guy who helps the Facilities team with IT directly so he let's us have some flexibility with older versions and exemptions from update requirements for compatibility...
I'm not sure about all of that. I tend to not dig into that PM side too much as we're busy pulling in thousands of bacnet points from many sites into our new N4 server and I'm working on all of...
I forgot to add that even though the Mech contractor says they gave notice 2 weeks ago the Controls contractor has looked in all of their records and emails and cannot find the said notice.
In this case I'm the University's BAS guy who was left out of the PM's planning. We dug deeper yesterday and learned the Mechanical Contractor says they sent a notice to proceed 2 weeks ago to the...
Well they can pay for it in the original bid or in change order but either way it has to happen.
Today we learned one of our university PMs started work on a project and has already had our Metasys BAS ripped out and they're working on new stuff and they "opted out" of 2 of the 3 floors BAS...
Yes, do it. Not sure where you're at but perhaps a "local" vendor has a class they offer for Niagara and for Distech controllers. I'm a HVAC tech turned controls tech at a University within the...
We have started doing the same thing on our new buildings on campus. Our industrial PCs mounted in the control cabinet are running Windows industrial license. It's nice because you can run other...
Wait are you saying my 40-60 year old college campus buildings with old windows, worn out dampers, leaky ducts cannot go Leed Gold with an analytics program?
Thank you so much for sharing that PDF on the alarms. Those are good examples and initially I could think of other ways to implement those ideas to create valuable alarms for us. First I need to...
Also a tip for heating in the unit while unoccupied, be sure to set it to control the hot water valve to a mixed air temp setpoint while circulating the hot water. I've seen units that just shut...
In Denver here we have our mixed air low limit setpoints on a reset. The colder it gets outside the higher the MaLoLmt (in the reset range). Htg coil should be in front of the cooling coil with the...
Those are very good points. If the different parties are too narrow focused on just what they are doing and don't look at the system holistically then these problems will continue. Electricians...
We have an industry wide problem that IMO is the result of a few factors.
1) Too many apprentices per "journeymen, veteran, or master" (electricians, HVAC, Controls etc.). Many of the...
Yes I do backup before I edit graphics or use program services. Got tired of nuking the wrong graphic.
You could be lucky like us with the new building we just had built. We have 6 way valves for Heating and cooling. 0-30% is heating with 0 being full heat, 30-59 is dead zone and 60-100 is cooling...
Nice, I'll be revisiting these points and share more of what we also come up with. Today I was doing some program service changes to alarms in one of our new buildings that has about 40 FCU units....
I have a couple of questions about different approaches to alarm management.
First a short background. Here at the university I work in facilities at under our energy manager there are 2 of us...
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I recently ran across CRUAlm and it stumped me for a bit. Figured out it was the Condensate Return Unit Alarm.
That and they don't say Trane on them. ;)
For 1 we can drop their controllers right into existing LON buildings with obsolete equipment and use the same network. We have a few big buildings with that issue. This let's one of our main...
Multiple people working the same product in a market also helps us avoid having to do sole source justifications when bidding out jobs.
As a customer I like when the local contractors have to honestly bid against competition.
I'm interested in this subject as well. I'll be following this one. At our university campus we have multiple systems from metasys, AX, Tracer, N4, KMC, etc. We're looking starting an in house...
Are you talking about discovering the 10 points for each meter via bacnet? So you set up each bacnet device and want to replicate the discovery and naming?
I have similar desires when it comes to...
I would love to have a good source to refer to on this topic.
Initially thought this guy was just cursing (in a censored manner) Trane but then you said it translated to Turkish. LOL
I can't imagine any of this is going to get better for quite some time. The auto, home electronics and computer industries are so extremely far behind that I still struggle to understand how it got...
I know we're waiting forever for a drive from our local Trane rep for a unit that let the smoke out. They said they will let us know when they get a delivery status update. Sigh.
LOL my wife likes that song. I also dislike it but I have run subwoofers in most of my cars since I was a stereo installer just out of High School.
Thank you. The disable and reenable trick worked.
Here is a link to the course I took. https://www.long.com/training/niagara-programming/
Some info from the description in case the link doesn't work or you don't want to follow that.
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We have a few sites on NAEs that we've pulled some points into our N4 server and they discovered and pulled in fine but when I looked at 2 different buildings points today I saw a bunch in fault. ...
I'm at a university and we do have a IT department and our school has cyber security programs. That said I've seen some general IT practices that could definitely be more secure. I didn't read all...
Bigguy158, thanks for actually posting the story and context. LOL I missed that part. I am too new to post links but I could have copied and pasted a portion to give readers an idea what I was on...
What is the EDC bag organizer? I googled that stuff and didn't find much. I just found a bunch of wanna be tactical stuff.
Very cool. Glad you guys were able to find a solution.
This was a 40 hour N4 for programmers course they offer. Their pre reqs are their web browser course and their 2 day course on one of their controller systems such as KMC or Distech. I've done...
How common are these security issues? I know this is a KNX system (I personally don't know that stuff) but what could we be looking at for vulnerabilities with our N4 and Tracer systems? I'm sure...
They went over this in my 5 day N4 course at Long (Denver, CO contractor) and it 1 scared me out of wanting to use it or a long time and 2 really showed me the importance of backing everything up. ...
Sure fire way to get yourself written right out of BAS standards.
I've had (inherited) a klein backpack for tools at a previous job and I didn't like the way it sagged over and that one had the curve at the bottom of the zipper area that never wanted to just zip up...
Outstanding. I'll look into that.
I carry the Veto Pro Pac MC compact bag. It does a good job keeping me set up with hand tools and a tiny 1/4" drive socket set that can do 90 degree screws and stuff in those fun Univent cabinets. ...
We're looking to get our new laptops going for Trane TU also. If it becomes too much of a pain I guess we will just keep remoting to the one old desktop until IT makes us stop using the old windows...
I have not seen a pen style meter I'd trust. It's not all that often but there are still times when out troubleshooting I'll take 480v readings on a VFD or check primary voltages on a transformer...