NEWSLETTER
October 2005
 

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TEGG SERVICES
Selway Management, Inc.

WINERIES
Beringer Vineyards of St. Helena

RESIDENTIAL
More Custom Lighting Scenes in Marin

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We hope you enjoy our monthly newsletter as much as we enjoy making it available to you.  We look forward to sharing stories and ideas that promote our customers, their businesses and how we all work together to come up with solutions to the challenges we face together.  We also look forward to hearing from you with your comments, feedback or story ideas to make our newsletter more valuable to you.

Barbara Ragsdale
CFO & Editor

CREDITS

Contributors to Stories:

Knights' Electric
Barbara Ragsdale
Art Knight
Rob Knight
Michael Ragsdale
Michael Saitone
Matt Sweeney

Selway Management, Inc.
Jennifer Sibley, Assistant Manager

Foster's Wine Estates Americas
Clement Lee, Director, Napa Properties Engineering Services

Writer:
Mark Dommer
Dommer & Associates

Editor:
Barbara Ragsdale
Knights' Electric

Knights' Electric, Inc.
11410 Old Redwood Hwy.
Windsor, CA  95492
TEL (707) 433-6931
FAX (707) 431-2342
Lic. #432135
info@knightselectric.com
www.knightselectric.com

Copyright 2005
Knights' Electric, Inc.

  TEGG SERVICES
  Selway Management, Inc.

Selway Management, Inc. is a property management company located in the Airport Business Center in Santa Rosa. Selway Management has a number of rental properties in the Airport Business Center. Two-thirds of their properties are industrial, one-third are office, plus 60,000 square feet of retail. "We have a total of 656,000 square feet of rental properties," says Jennifer Sibley, Property Manager at Selway.

Michael Saitone, Knights' Electric's TEGG Service Senior Sales Representative, got high marks from Selway  Management, Inc.

Among their other rental properties Selway Management has the six-story, former Eureka Federal Savings Building, at 50 Old Court House Square in downtown Santa Rosa under their management. Sibley and Sheree Meehan, also a property manager at Selway, have high aspirations for the near future, "We should reach over one million square feet of properties by the end of 2006," says Sibley.

Selway Management, Inc. property, a 120,000 square foot warehouse, had security lighting in need of repair. (click photo to enlarge)

Selway Management prides themselves in their excellent upkeep of their rental properties. Recently they discovered that a 120,000 square foot warehouse they lease out in the Airport Business Center had a problem with the exterior wall mounted security lights. "Only about a third of the security lights were operational," says Sibley.

Michael Saitone, Knights' Electric's TEGG Service senior sales representative had previously contacted Selway, so they called him regarding the security lights. "We were impressed with his quick response to our problem," says Sibley, "It was a rather involved project. We didn't know what to expect, but Mike took the time to explain everything including our options. We didn't want just a quick fix, so Knights' Electric checked the lighting system, repaired some of the lights and replaced four others."

Knights' Electric's TEGG Service replaced four security lights and repaired many others. (click photo to enlarge)

"We like to keep our properties in good shape," says Sibley, "Knights' Electric did a good job and completed it quickly and at a reasonable price."

  WINERIES
  Beringer Vineyards of St. Helena

Art Knight of Knights' Electric, Inc. checks the motor control center at Beringer Vineyards. (click photo to enlarge)

Knights' Electric, Inc. has done extensive work for Foster's Wine Estates Americas, a global premium wine company that grows, produces and markets a broad range of premium wines from Australia, California, Europe and South America.

Knights' Electric has worked at Asti Winery, one of ten California wineries owned by Foster's Wine Estates Americas, for over 20 years on numerous projects. Knights' Electric has also worked for Chateau Souverain and Beringer Vineyards in St. Helena.

Two of the compressors for the refrigeration system. (click photo to enlarge)

Knights' Electric has been engaged in work at Beringer Vineyards at the winemaking facility across Highway 29 from the original historic Beringer Vineyards established in 1876, which is open to the public for wine tasting and tours.

Knights' Electric designed, built and installed pump over control panel (top) and 480-volt pump stanchions (below). (click photo to enlarge)

Knights' Electric has just completed power and control wiring of a new ammonia refrigeration system. The electrical work consisted of the installation of a new 2000-amp, 480/277volt main electrical service and new 120-amp Allen Bradley motor control center with interconnecting power and control wiring to all of the refrigeration equipment.

Knights' Electric provided the new motor control center with solid-state soft starts for the large electric motors on the compressors, which aid in the reduction of electrical current when starting the motors. Variable frequency drives where provided to power the cooling tower fan motors, which can adjust the speed of the motors automatically depending on the amount of cooling needed, thus saving energy. Knights' Electric has also designed, built and installed pump over control panels on forty-four of the fermentation tanks and retrofitted sixteen older pump stanchions throughout the winery.

  RESIDENTIAL
  More Custom Lighting Scenes in Marin

Chandelier is the focal point for lighting accented with recessed lighting in family room. (click photo to enlarge)

Knights' Electric's residential department is nearing completion of a custom home remodel and addition project that required a design/build electrical plan, which seemed to take on a life of its own. The home grew in size from 3,000 square feet to 4,000 square feet under the supervision of Hadley Construction, Inc., the general contractor on the project.

"The owners saw a lighting keypad layout in a home design magazine prior to the beginning of the project and that's what they wanted to explore for their remodel and addition project," says Matt Sweeney, Project Manager for Knights' Electric's residential department, "We started with a Grafik Eye , a smaller, simple lighting control system. As the planning progressed we kept adding keypads in more rooms to the point where I said 'if we add one more keypad we are going to have to move up to a HomeWorks control system to handle all of it' – and we did."

Master bathroom chandelier. (click photo to enlarge)

Juno low-voltage, recessed adjustable lighting fixtures for art and changeable mood lighting. (click photo to enlarge)

As with many custom homeowners, other personal preference features were added as part of the overall lighting plan, such as chandeliers in the family room and upstairs master bathroom. Juno, low-voltage, adjustable recessed lighting, has been installed throughout the home to facilitate art and mood lighting.

The exterior of the home features wall-mounted Shaper lighting fixtures for entryways and security lighting. An interesting patio trellis lighting design features "hidden" lighting fixtures between the trellis joists. The landscape lighting design is still being developed.

Patio trellis has numerous "hidden" lighting fixtures between trellis joists. (click photo to enlarge)

Close-up of trellis lighting fixture. (click photo to enlarge)

The homeowners are so happy with the HomeWorks lighting control system that they wish they had started with it in the original parts of the home that were not changed by the remodeling. "We can always go back and install a Lutron Wireless Series system that doesn't require wall and ceiling tear outs," says Sweeney. With Knights' Electric's design/build electrical plans the possibilities are almost endless.

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