Our company are in talks with these guys, have a look at the link. (never posted a link before so i'm not sure if it wil work)

[URL="http://cost-cutting-cube.com/home___news"]

they are planning to run a trial at one of our coldstores,
What do you think?

from looking at the website all thier trials so far have been carried out on smal plant, comercial systems, hotels, etc, etc. nothing like the size of our systems.

Also our company policy for plant operation is:

DO NOT operate on stats!
stats set to un-obtainable temp, run plant flat out from 00:00 till 07:00 (maximising the cheap night rate usage)

then

Shut down plant untill store reaches -18 then (normaly 3-6 hrs)

then

run plant flat out and have a second shut down at say 20:00 till 00:00.

We have run numerous trials trying many diferent philosophies, and all have proven that our current method is the most efficient way of operating for the type of bulk storage coldstores we operate.

i have seen probes installed in glycol pots before and i assume this ecube device would have the same sort of effect.

i know these may allow us to have longer shut downs but we would also have to run for longer to recover from the shut down.

any thought or ideas on this would be greatly appriciated . has anyone used similar devices on an industrial size coldstore before.