As of March 1, Sunbelt Power Controls is fully integrated into Innovative-IDM. Richard Kreekon, who worked since 2016 to make this transition a reality, has moved on to retirement. Sunbelt is now a brand name for a product (pump control panels) sold by Innovative-IDM. We have UL508A panel shops in Dallas, Houston and Chicago. All […]
Flush your toilet. Where does it go? Unless you’re on a septic system, to a lift station probably. The content of your toilet exits your house into the sewage main and is then piped to an in-ground storage pit usually made of concrete. These storage pits (also known as lift stations) usually are placed at the […]
Water pumps are told to start and stop by both mechanical and electronic switches. Which one you decide to incorporate into your pumping system depends on what you value most: accuracy or reliability. Water pumping systems either pump potable water for consumption or sewage (spoiled) water for removal. Measuring these pump systems can be done […]
Less than 40 milliamps (.04) amps at less than 100 volts can put a human heart into cardiac arrest by electric shock. It is the current flow that causes the damage to the human body’s natural electrical signals that regulate the heart muscle. How little voltage and current depends on the conductivity of a particular person […]
Pump project integration specialists have to be part businessman, part finance officer, part engineer and part fortune teller. Their customers expect them to handle the planning and implementation of a fluid pumping system in a modern and efficient way, while staying within (usually) a tight budget. And by the way, make sure the system adheres […]
Seal failure is a condition where a submersible pump and its motor housing have been compromised. Water has penetrated into the housing which is normally filled with oil. Most pumps have what is known as a double seal: If the first seal fails, it gives us time to do maintenance before (inevitably) the second seal […]
The movement and control of water for centuries has puzzled, confounded and challenged the even the greatest engineering minds. Still does today on some scale. How do we extract water out of the ground? How do we move waste water from one place to another? How do we lift water from reservoirs and put it […]
UL508A is the Underwriters Laboratory (UL) rating that provides standards and certifications for electrical control panels. It promotes safety, sustainability and consumer confidence in electrical control panels. If you think UL raking is something out of the past, you are correct. In fact, the practice of safeguarding the public against the dangers of fire hazards […]
A pump supplier can have the best, high end pumps in the world available to his customers. But it’s the electrical pump controller tells the pumps what to do. If the pump controller is not operating properly, neither will the pumps — no matter how good they are. The pump control panel is subject to […]
Recently, we had a Sunbelt pump controller hit by lightning. It was installed at a waste water plant. The pump controller fell victim to a lightning strike and was fritzed. In this case, even though the panel stunk to high heaven wasn’t totally burned, it made sense for the customer to go ahead and rebuild […]