Operations & Maintenance Guides

Your guides to optimizing equipment performance and efficiency.

Lighting

• Boosting lighting efficiency with reflectors and maintenance
• Light output declines with time
• Seven ways to maintain lighting savings
• Spot Versus Group Relamping
• T-5 fluorescent lamps

Building shell

• Air leakage control
• Cool roofs
• Insulation primer
• Reducing cooling loads: through windows

Power Quality

• Power Quality: A guide to voltage fluctuation and light flicker [PDF, 166 Kb]
• Power Quality: Application Guide – Adjustable Speed Drives [PDF, 300 Kb]
• Power Quality: Customer Financial Impact/Risk Assessment Tool [PDF, 79 Kb]
• Power Quality for your Local Area Network (LAN) [PDF, 169 Kb]
• Power Quality in your Commercial Office [PDF, 119 Kb]
• Power Quality and Power Factor Correction [PDF, 169 Kb]
• Power Factor Correction (general)
• Power Factor Correction (more detail) [PDF, 1.0 Mb]
• Uninterruptible Power Supply [PDF, 76 Kb]

HVAC

• Adjusting belts
• Cleaning condenser coils
• Cleaning evaporator coils
• Cleaning filters
• Fixing refrigerant leaks
• Maintaining cabinet integrity
• Maintaining condenser fans and motors
• Maintaining fans
• Outside-air dampers

 
 
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