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Automatic Bath Fan Sensors Reduce Humidity, Pollutants, and Odors

As Green Builder Matt Hoots of Sawhorse, Inc. points out, most people don’t use ventilation properly.  Exhaust fans can be a missed opportunity for improving Indoor air quality, or IAQ, because so many people don’t turn them on, or they turn them off too soon.   In the kitchen, excessively loud hoods are also less likely to be used.  This means that cooking emissions are lingering in the air, and this problem is...

Customized Switches and Sensors for Indoor Air Quality || Swidget

Matt Hoots of Sawhorse, Inc. connects with Chris from Swidget (a clever name: think "Switching" and "Widgets") at the 2022 International Builders Show.  Chris walks us through Swidget's modular sensors and wiring devices, which are designed for smart homes.  The wiring devices look like traditional outlets and switches and have the same footprint, so the installation process and use are easy...

Whole House Energy Recovery Ventilators (ERVs) Explained, by Panasonic

We’d like to thank Ken Nelson at Panasonic for his terrific video explanation of how ERVs work and for introducing us to the features and benefits of the Intelli-Balance 200 as well.  Have you been wondering what an ERV is and how it really works, as in, how this techology adds fresh air to built spaces while preserving energy and leveraging heat, and how exactly air and water vapor move around in that enthalpic...

A Look at How ERVs Work with Panasonic, How 80% Efficiency Might Work in Practice

In this video, Matt Hoots interviews Ken Nelson with Panasonic at the International Builders/Kitchen and Bath Show.  Ken explains how ERVs work using a core exchanger, or enthalpic core (or what some of us call the “Magic Box.”)   Energy Recovery Ventilators bring fresh air into a building while expelling indoor air.  This is done while exchanging the energy and moisture so the air conditioning system...

Whisper Green Fans from Panasonic Eco Solutions - Quiet Prevention for Moisture and Condensation (and Smart!) (Video)

Check out Matt Hoots’ interview with Ken Nelson from Panasonic Eco Solutions at the International Builders Show/Kitchen & Bathroom Show.  In this video, Ken gives an introduction to the Whisper Green Select line of fans, and he also shares a bit about fans and moisture generally.  What makes a quiet fan?  How quiet is quiet anyway? What might consumers and builders want to know? Today’s tighter...

Free EEBA Webinar: Future Proof Healthy Home Strategies with Panasonic and Swidget, June 7, 2 pm Central

Panasonic and Swidget have combined forces to empower your homes to monitor, assess, and optimize the healthy home and a multitude of other home automation possibilities. - Learn how to expand the jobs to be done by upgrading traditional wiring devices to smart devices. - Easily manage ventilation and other healthy home strategies with simple automations. - Technology develops fast and the only solution is to provide a future-proof design...