Featured New Product

HVAC-CALC-Easy to use heat loss/heat gain software

From the people who bring the open discussion forum HVAC-Talk to the HVAC community

HVAC-Calc, is called the easy to use heat loss and heat gain Calculator, for both residential and commercial structures.Explains how to size furnaces and Air Conditioners; includes duct sizing and hot-water baseboard sizing.

Here are some comments from HVAC-Calc users shown on the web site for the program:<"Thanks for a great product. It does what it says it will and makes a tedious task almost fun.."..."Don, the demo was a joy to use!!... The easiest program I've found! Here's my $389 for Residential 4.0."..."If you can use a tape measure, you can use your program."..."The data entry is straight forward and follows a logical path.">

It is very interesting to us, at least, to realize that temperature calculations from fundamental heat transfer principles are now so readily available for use at relatively modest costs. This means that more precise heating and cooling estimates can help improve the efficiency of system designs, said systems depending upon one or more temperature sensors for proper control of the entire system operation.

NEW Links of Interest - May2002

Thermocouple Vendors Page
(Note that the page has been modified to the new style)

Paul Beckman Company ( USA) The source for ultra-thin thermocouple wire and small, fast responding thermocouple probes.

Johnson Matthey Noble Metals (UK) Supply thermocouple wire ranging from the 0.03 atomic percent iron/gold v chromel for cryogenic temperature measurement, through the platinum v rhodium/platinum combinations to iridium v iridium/rhodium for measurement of temperatures up to 2100°C.

Thermodynamic Sensors (USA) Thermocouple Wafer Technology; Customized for semiconductor, MEMS and Flat panel display. Also industrial TC & RTD assemblies.

Thermoelectron Wire and Cable (USA) A maker and seller of thermocouple wire, cable and copper cable assemblies.

Thermowell Vendors Page

Temperature Measurement Systems (Texas-USA) TMS has been making thermowells for over 20 years. They maintain a large inventory of standard thermowells, flanges and barplus they pride themselves on high quality and 99% ship dates with "on-time rating".

Dewpoint and Humidity Vendors Page

Meaco (UK) The Home of Humidifiers, Damp & Humidity Monitoring and Control.

Links Page

Meaco (UK) Offers a line of temperature and multifunction readout and data logger equipment along with the Testo line of Humidity Monitoring and temperature measuring probes.

Page Updates

Home Page

Our opening or home page now features a new product news column that is updated frequently by EngineeringTalk.com a web product news provider (and more) from the UK.

Notice to PR and Ad staffs in equipment and service companies: Send news releases to Chris Rand at EngineeringTalk.com as well as to us. Chris covers a much wider audience than we do and your coverage there will be wider.

The following pages have been converted to the new page format and edited for accuracy and clarity:

Applications (Measurements)

Meetings

Sensors

Thermocouple Vendors

New Pages

The new HVAC page provides an overview to the wide areas of use temperature and humidity sensors grouped together under the term HVAC, or sometimes referred to as HVAC/R, Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning (and Refrigeration) fields.

The Temperature CD-ROM List is begun. It is a meagre offering, we know, but we simply do not know all the catalogs and temperature related information available from various sources. This start at the task covers a few free CD-ROMs. If you know of more or have one that you think should be added, let us know, please.

Next Month's Plan

Temperatures.com, Inc. is moving its home base starting late this month. Our addresses and phone connections will remain the same for a while and our email address will never (we hope) change. We will advise you of our new phone and mailing addresses in our next newsletter and also post the changes on the web site. Our new physical location will be in Bucks County, PA, a return to old haunts after wearing ruts in the two turnpikes that connect it with Cuyahoga County, OH for nearly 13 years. We look forward to better resources and continued operations. We expect to publish throughout the transfer which will not be completed until early September. Next month promise to be a surprise. We'll see you then.

COMMENTs and MORE SITE RANKINGS

We review many, many web sites in our course of wandering the Web. What we see is a surprising mix of sites. Most appear to be little more than a static catalog of a company's products and services. We have been very successful in generating large numbers of visitors to our site and it is still growing faster than our most optimistic expectations. According to Alexa , a free rating program one can add to their browser and see site rankings, we are in the first 300,000 web sites ranked according to visitor rate, a major improvement from last month! Our site now ranks just below Sensors Magazine and just above the American Society for Non-Destructive Testing. We are not alone in improving our ratings; many site have, but some have not.

Here are a few sites and Alexa ratings we collected at the end of May and April 2002. The ranking starts at the top site, the best being No. 1! (We found the second ranking site last month, as you can see below and a few more representative ones. Considering that there are more than 17,000, 000 sites on the web, a ranking in the first 1,000,000 seems very laudable while the first 100,000 is an exclusive club-the top 0.5%). Note, too, that we have added six more sites including some high-ranking ones and some more representative of temperature sensor-related ones. The new sites are highlighted in yellow, those sites that improved their rankings are in green and those whose rankings diminished (numeric value is higher than last month) are in rose.

This addition to our newsletter has been commented upon very much and we are considering adding an Alexa Rating for every listing in our directories. Your further feedback and comments will help us decide how to display the information.

We are teaming up with an experienced web design and marketing firm to aid technical organizations get more out their Web investment. (Not to brag too much but our investment in web resources is tiny compared to many other orgainzations. Yet our ranking is nearly that of a widely read magazine and, at the present rate of ranking growth, we may pass them soon. What do we know that makes this possible? We know and are willing to share that knowledge and some hard work to help others, for a fee of course.)

We believe companies can improve their visitor rate, sale and marketing operations, sales communications and generate more orders through proper focus on their Web resources. The Internet, especially the Web, is a revolutionary new marketing tool and few companies seem to understand that undeniable fact.

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