Archive for February, 2010

KJ Diversified Uses Green Energy for its Manufacturing

KJ Diversified uses solar power to supply nearly 100% of the power for our welding needs. The solar panel array was installed in December 2009. It has 5760 watts of solar panels with a 6000 watt Sunnyboy inverter. The array tracks the sun through 92 degrees of articulation. The tracking system is a hydraulically driven system of KJ Diversified design. It allows for a stable array even under very high wind loads. The power generation of this system can be monitored at sunnyportal.com

Instead of using our mist line to make flaming Olympic rings, it appears they used it for the Cauldron lighting at the 2010 Winter Olympics. In these videos, you can see Wayne Gretzky lighting the second Olympic Cauldron. As you can see, he brings the torch down to the base, and then huge flames shoot up about every 12 inches for about 30 feet going up the pyre that leads to the cauldron. That would be our mist line and misting nozzles, probably with alcohol running through it.

In this video, we’re doing a test on a mist ring with four nozzle clusters. It puts out 20 nozzles‘ worth of mist. And as you can see, it is a whole lot of water!

This can accomplish what standard mist rings can’t do because on small diameter misting rings, you can’t put so many nozzles that close together.

Wow! Mistline isn’t just for cooling. We just shipped tubing to be bent into the Oylmpics symbol for the 2010 Calgary winter games. It will be used for special effects. They’ll spray alcohol through it and ignite it for some unique, flaming Olympic Rings.

KJ

Our current manufacturing backlog time is 5 days or fewer. This is a good time to order, when our order volume is low. Don’t wait for the Spring rush!

Have a great day.

KJ