While the search tool and archive system provided by WordPress on the right side of my blog, just below my picture, works pretty well, I occasionally find myself frustrated when I am trying to find a post on a specific topic. A number of times, I have tried to develop my own indexing system, and I notice in my statistics that folks occasionally seek out the posts with the index. Sadly, I have not been very consistent in getting a full index in place and then keeping it current.
But, there is some good news if you were one of the people looking for an index. I just stumbled into a way to create one very quickly from the blog statistics page that I have access to as the administrator of my blog. And, but taking the list and inserting it into Excel, I find that I can sort it alphabetically by title and still preserve the hyperlinks.
So, here is a complete list of all of my posts, sorted by topic and with hyperlinks. I think you can use the search feature of a browser to find a topic you might be interested. For instance, if you are in this post and using Internet Explorer and press “Control” and “F” at the same time, you will open up a little search bar. You can see it in this screen shot right above the WordPress header.
When you type your search terms in there, the tool automatically moves you to the first occurrence and then highlights the rest. In the screen shot, I had entered the words “System Diagram” into the search bar and, as you can see, it has taken me to the posts with those words in the title.
Moving forward, I will try to leverage that feature to make things easier to search for. And I will try to update the index on a regular basis now that I have figured out how to do it. I will start those posts with the words “Index Update” to make them easy to find in the search tool.
I should also mention that many of the posts on this list are from when my blog was on the Consulting Specifying Engineers website. When that magazine shut down, I moved the content from their site to the current location to keep the blog going. But the bad news there was that the formatting did not hold up and a lot of the images were lost.
So, I have been going back and restoring the old posts as time permits, mostly if I see a number of people trying to access them. But, if you open a post and find it to be hard to read and missing the graphics and you really wanted the information, send me a comment and I will try to restore it sooner rather than later.
The current version of the index starts below my signature. Hope you find it helpful.
David Sellers
Senior Engineer – Facility Dynamics Engineering
4-20 ma Current Loops – Answering a Few Questions
4-20 ma Current Loops – Assembling the DC Power Supply Panel
4-20 Milli-amp Current Loops – Power Supply Panel Parts
4-20 milliamp Current Loops; Interpreting Current Loop Information
4-20 milliamp Current Loops; What They Are and How They Work
4-20 milliamp Current Loops; Why Use Them?
A Free Control Logic Development Resource
A Little Bit Over a Long Time Equals A Whole Lot
A Pump Training Opportunity in Southern California
Adjusting Maintenance Costs for Inflation
Air Handling System Prefilters
Art, Craft, and Engineering – Part 1
Art, Craft, and Engineering – Part 2
Assessing Steam Consumption with an Alarm Clock
Assessing Steam Consumption with an Alarm Clock: Step 2 – Detecting a Pump Cycle
Assessing Steam Consumption with an Alarm Clock: Step 3 – Counting Cycles
Bin Weather Data for the United States and International Locations
Building Architectural Elements as Integral Parts of the HVAC System
Building Envelope Details; Envelopes Inside of Envelopes
Commissioning a Condenser Water System – Part 1; Evidence of an Issue
Commissioning a Condenser Water System – Part 2; Putting the Clues Together
Commissioning and Main Stream Journalism
Commissioning and Operations meet HVAC Design Theory; Design vs. Extreme Conditions
Commissioning Resources; A Green High Tech Webcast Follow-up
Condenser Water System Commissioning – Lesson 1
Condensing Boilers; Saving Energy and Reducing Emissions
Control Engineering Reference Guide for PID Tuning
Control System Procurement; A Process Gone Insane
Control Technology; A Glimpse Backward and Some Thoughts on the Future
Controlling the Environment Requires Understanding the Environment
Current Loops, Scaling Resistors, and Tubular Screw Clamp Terminals
Damper tests provide valuable insights, Part 4; Mixing and seals
Damper tests provide valuable insights, Part 5; Test Background
Damper tests provide valuable insights, Part 7A; Test Proceedure and a First Look at the Results
Damper tests provide valuable insights, Part 7B; Test Proceedure and a First Look at the Results
Damper tests provide valuable insights. Seriously–I’m not kidding. Part 1
Damper tests provide valuable insights. Seriously–I’m not kidding. Part 2
Data Logging a Heating Hot Water System; An Overview of the Targeted System
Data Logging a Heating Hot Water System; Using Boiler Panel Amps to Understand Boiler Performance
Data Logging a Heating Hot Water System; Where’s the Load?
Demonstrating HVAC Filtration Savings with Data Loggers
Design Review – Same Frame Size, Different Fan Sizes – Part 2
Design Review – Taking a Look at Coil Options
Design Review; Leveraging Opportunities Before Ideas Become Realities
Developing a Monitoring Plan; The First Step in Data Logger Deployment
Developing a System Diagram: A Few Organizational Tips
Developing a System Diagram: Elbows are Meaningless in a System Diagram (Kinda, Sorta)
Developing a System Diagram: Getting Started
Developing a System Diagram: Untangling the Pacific Energy Center Ice Storage System
Developing a System Diagram; Moving Forward from Your Starting Point
Eikon, Compatibility Mode, and Virtual Machines
Engineering Leadership: Key Element for Commissioning Success
Equipment Replacement Cost Calculations;There’s More to it than Simple Payback
Excel’s LINEST Function: Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Extreme Weather; Your Winter Wonderland can be a Facilities Engineer’s Worst Nightmare
Field Lessons in HVAC Physics, Physiology, and Psychology
Field Particle Count Measurements
Flow Visualization; Lessons in Duct Flow Patterns from my Wood Shop
Good News about NWS Weather Data, Plus Working with Date and Time in Excel
Hourly Weather Data for Times Gone By (Plus Opening a Delimited File with Excel)
Howden North America’s Fan Engineering Handbook
HVAC Equations and Rules of Thumb on you Kindle
Inlet Guide Vanes (IGVs) and Variable Speed Drives(VSDs)
Installing a Surface Temperature Sensor for a Data Logger Deployment
Investigating an Anomaly – Part 1 – Benchmarking
Learning about Relay Logic; Build Your Very Own Jeopardy Game
Learning about Relay Logic; What’s a Relay?
Load Profiles; Big Changes, Big Challenges
Measuring Outdoor Conditions; Not So Easy as You Might Think
Measuring Pipe Surface Temperature
Mentoring and Thinking Outside the Box
More on Squirrel Cage Motors and Slip
More Thoughts on Global Warming
More Thoughts on Point Naming Conventions
Motor Optimization; Same Efficiency + Different Slip = Different Savings
Mounting Position Effects: +30/-90° from vertical = +8/-3% Accuracy
Murph on Maintenance; The Voice of Experience Chimes in on Building Systems Maintenance Costs
My Data Logging Monitoring Plan; One More Thing
My New Blog Location, At Least for Now
New “On Demand” Content on Induction Motors Available from the Pacific Energy Center
Obtaining Pump Performance Data
Of Mice and Energy Conservation
Operating Data and Commissioning; The Two Go Hand in Hand
Optimizing and Troubleshooting Pumps; A Follow-up to the CTAC Class
Oysters, Pearls, and Professions
Parallel Pumps; An Indicator of a Retrocommissioning Opportunity
Practical Temperature Measurement
PROJECTING BUILDING MAINTENANCE COSTS
Pump and Motor Interactions – The Video
Relative Links, Absolute Links, Autorun files, People Skills, and Electronic Reports
Resources for the Resourceful – A Free Degree Day Resource
Resources for the Resourceful – Arc Flash
Resources for the Resourceful – Control Spec Builder
Resources for the Resourceful – Motor Operating Costs
Resources for the Resourceful – Pump Systems Matter
Resources for the Resourceful – Roy Dossat and Principles of Refrigeration
Resources for the Resourceful – Utility Analysis Spreadsheet Tool
Resources for the Resourceful: Electrical Fundamentals
Resources for the Resourceful: Learning about the Building Envelope
Resources for the Resourceful: MotorMaster; Optimizing Motor Efficiency
Resources for the Resourceful: Refrigeration Tables
Resources for the Resourceful: The Honeywell “Gray Manual’
Resources for the Resourceful; Comparing Climates
Resources for the Resourceful; Control Point Naming Conventions
Resources for the Resourceful; Current versus Normal and Extreme Climate Data
Resources for the Resourceful; Free Hourly Weather Data
Resources for the Resourceful; Integrated Operation and Control; the Novel
Resources for the Resourceful; Understanding Warm and Cold Fronts
Resources for Understanding PID Control
Same MERV, Same Size, More Dust Holding Capacity
Settling In To My New Blog Space
System Diagrams: “Untangle it; it should look like a ladder on its side”
System Diagrams: Applying My System Diagram Concepts to Air Handling Systems
System Diagrams: Key Features of my Air System Diagrams
System Diagrams: Moving on from the Roof at the Pacific Energy Center
System Diagrams: Order of Connection Matters
System Diagrams: Physically Complex; Schematically Simple
System Diagrams: The Envelope as Part of the Air Handling System
System Diagrams: Untangled in Action
System Diagrams; an Industry Concept but Not an Industry Standard
System Diagrams; Essential Design and Commissioning Tools
System Load Profiles and the Challenges They Present
Temperature Measurement; the Impact of Mass Flow Rate on Mixed Air Temperature
Testing a Clean Room for Leakage
The “two-thirds” Rule for Locating Sensors to Control Variable Flow Systems
The “two-thirds” Rule for Locating Sensors to Control Variable Flow Systems – Part 2
The “two-thirds” Rule for Locating Sensors to Control Variable Flow Systems – Part 3
The “two-thirds” Rule; Some Bottom Lines
The 16th National Conference on Building Commissioning
The 17th National Conference on Building Commissioning
The Controls Integration and Coordination Meeting
The Non-Energy Benefits of Good O&M Practices
Thoughts on Sustainable Design – Part 1
Thoughts on Sustainable Design – Part 2 (And, a Contest!)
Touching Bases and Responding to Comments after a Busy Couple of Weeks
Troubleshooting a Screw Chiller – Adding Up Clues and Building Confidence
Troubleshooting HVAC Systems: The Domino Effect of Problems
Turning Vanes and Duct Elbows, Part 1
Turning Vanes and Duct Elbows, Part 2
Twin City Fan and Blower Company Fan Selection Software
Understanding an Anomaly – Part 2 – Average Daily Energy Consumption
Understanding an Anomaly – Part 3 – A Hypothesis
Understanding an Anomaly – Part 4 – The A-Ha! Moment
Understanding Integrated Design by Trying Your Hand at Something Different
Unit Conversion Constants; Not Always Constant
Unit Conversion Constants; The Answer to Deriving the 500 in Q = 500 x gpm x delta t
Updated Resource List Plus Visualizing Airflow Around Buildings
Using the DC Power Supply Panel in the Field – Picking Cable
Validation of the Alarm Clock Technique for Measuring Steam Consumption
Variable Frequency Drive System Efficiency – Part 1
Variable Frequency Drive System Efficiency – Part 2
Variable Frequency Drive System Efficiency – Part 3
Walking a Mile Down the Control Design Path
Walking the Site; Wearing Your Own Shoes and Experiencing Someone Else’s
Welcome to “A Field Guide for Engineers” New Home
Working With the Honeywell W7212 Economizer Controller; How I Came to Write This String of Posts
A Field Perspective on Engineering 
David,
Sorry for contacting you this way but your email link for FDE is not working. I was interested in attending your Nov. 2012 Sequence of Operations webinar but I had a schedule conflict. BCA indicated that they were recording the webinar and would make it available for on demand viewing in Jan. 2013. I email them recently and they indicated that they had technical difficulties with the recording and it may not be published. Do you know when you will be presenting this program again?
Regards
Brian
Hi Brian,
Thanks for the “heads up” on the e-mail link. I will need to check into that.
With regard to the BCA Seminar, I don’t think there are any definate plans to present it again at this point in time. But, if I understand the agreement I signed correctly when I developed it (and I may not being that I am not a lawyer) I think it is O.K. for me to share a .pdf copy of the slides with people. So, I will put a copy on my Google Drive in a minute. Once it is there, you should be able to find it by using the link lists on the right side of the blog home page. It will be under “03 – Materials from Classes and Presentations” in the folder you will link to by selecting the “Building Commissioning Association” link. The file will be called “Commissioning Control Sequences.pdf”.
Having said that, I will have to make sure that “officially” I can do it, which means I need to call Liz or Sheri at BCA on Monday and beg forgiveness. If they say I can’t do this, then I will have to pull it back off my Google Drive and will see if there is some other way to get the information to you. But I think everything should be O.K.
Best regards,
David
David,
Thanks for your response & slides
Brian