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	<title>Alps Controls Blog &#187; hvac</title>
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		<title>Be the first to spot ten differences in these two HVAC systems and win a shirt from Automation Components Inc. (ACI)</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2010/05/win-a-shirt-from-aci-automation-components/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 19:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
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Our partners at Automation Components Inc. (ACI) recently sent a quick quiz over to us to see if we knew anyone who&#8217;d like to have a brand spanking new ACI shirt. All you have to do to get one is to be among the first 10 people to spot the 10 differences in the HVAC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The FlexStat series from KMC Controls &#8211; like a building automation system that you can hold in your hand.</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/11/flexstat-thermostat-from-kmc-controls/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/11/flexstat-thermostat-from-kmc-controls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
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Wouldn&#8217;t it be great to find a low-cost, high-value device that provides automation power and support but at a fraction of the cost and installation of a building automation system? Take a look:

Find out more about the FlexStat from KMC Controls and add it to your Alps Controls shopping cart here.

Looking for more information or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Got a second? Alps Controls needs your input on this one-question survey.</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/11/should-alps-controls-sell-belts/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/11/should-alps-controls-sell-belts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:06:26 +0000</pubDate>
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One of the (minor) disadvantages to being The New Guy at Alps Controls &#8211; especially when I&#8217;m also The New Guy to the HVAC and building automation controls industry &#8211; is that often when my boss comes to ask me a question, I have to answer something like this:*
BOSS: Say, New Guy, what do you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alps Control Freak: news bits from around the web, 11.13.09</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/11/alps-control-freak-news-bits-from-around-the-web-11-13-09/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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Here it is November already and as we race willy-nilly into the 2009 holiday season, you&#8217;re probably imagining yourself doing some shopping, decorating your porch with 10 strings of half-burned-out lights, and &#8211; naturally &#8211; catching up on all of the most compelling bits of controls news from across the interwebs. 
Here&#8217;s today&#8217;s Control Freak [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For all of our account-holding customers on alpscontrols.com, a gentle reminder.</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/11/for-alpscontrols-customers-please-log-in/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/11/for-alpscontrols-customers-please-log-in/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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When we revamped and relaunched our e-catalog site alpscontrols.com about seven weeks ago, we made it easier for anyone searching online for HVAC and building automation control products to be able to find our site, discover product solutions, browse the catalog and purchase products. What&#8217;s more, we&#8217;ve been able to develop robust, time-saving tools for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ruskin creates new Energy Star partnership.</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/10/ruskin-creates-new-energy-star-partnership/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2009/10/ruskin-creates-new-energy-star-partnership/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
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It&#39;s getting so that you can barely open up a news page online (note: I didn&#39;t write &#34;open up a newspaper&#34;, and you can take that updated phrase as a positive or negative) anymore without frequent notices of the phrase &#34;Energy Star&#34;. The goal of this joint program &#8211; begun in 1992 &#8211; of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Funday</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2008/07/friday-funday/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2008/07/friday-funday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.alpscontrols.com/?p=159</guid>
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July has been a great month for the construction industry and we hope that you are all experiencing positives in your business. In the past few months we&#8217;ve added several new manufacturers to our catalog and we think they offer some great products that you&#8217;ll be interested in. In case you didn&#8217;t know, we add [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Funday and Contest</title>
		<link>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2008/06/friday-funday-and-contest/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.alpscontrols.com/2008/06/friday-funday-and-contest/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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For today&#8217;s Friday Funday we&#8217;ve decided to try a little experiment. Below are some crazy pictures we found of HVAC jobs gone wrong, or just really old and weird looking stuff. Some of these we found from a great Flickr group called HVAC. We&#8217;d love it if you&#8217;d send us your crazy, weird, funny, neat [...]]]></description>
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