jyoticse804
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- May 7, 2011
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FEB 2011 - Gearing up for the spring rush of US and Canadian orders! We have a good inventory built up, so we don't expect any shipping delays this year. We shipped lots more CoolBot to expand on last years India project which has now collected a ton of data on variety of crops and temperatures in multiple villages around the country. Although we sell thousands of CoolBots in the US, somehow the dozens we've sent out to various international aid projects are the most exciting! The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that up to 40% of fresh produce in developing nations rots on the way to market due to a lack of post harvest care. The CoolBot is a fraction of the cost of a conventional walk-in cooler and uses half as much electricity. Projects have built CoolBot-coolers out of straw, rice husks, even Papyrus!!! The idea that we can (help) increase the net amount of fresh produce in some countries by so much is terrificly stimulating!
OCTOBER 2010 - The summer Farmer rush is over, but we're in full-swing shipping to Hunters -- actually shipping more per week to hunters than we were to farmers (but it's a much shorter season). This was a market we hadn't anticipated at all until a couple years ago! We've also started shipping our coolbots through "Fulfillment By Amazon"... it's a neat program. We are not selling coolbots on Amazon yet, but having them handle the shipping now that we're selling so many per week has been a huge relief to us.
MAY 2010 - Just in time for the rush of summer farm orders, we're now shipping the improved 5th generation of CoolBot hardware (starting from the first commercial units that went out in 2006 - there were dozens more before that!). Besides internal programming improvements and a (light duty) internal surge protector, we now use full epoxy coating on all sensors making them more robust. *You should still use an external surge protector of your own because CoolBots are NOT immune to lightning strikes. We get at least one call a month from people with lightning strikes. I think this is because home-built cooler-outbuildings are not as well grounded as houses and the lightning ends up going right through the circuitry... Surge protectors seem like such a cheap and easy solution.
APRIL 2010 - There are now three demonstration CoolBots operating successfully in different parts of India with full monitoring on energy use, temperature, relative humidity and quality of the stored product. So far everything is working well even as temperatures in Delhi hit 113 degrees F! (Actually it should be noted that the Delhi unit was set to 35 def F (2 C) but the unit is holding steady at 37 (3 C) - it just can't get any colder). I think it's because the cooler is in direct Indian sun (no shade!) and there are some 3 tons of stored product in there. The A/C unit is sized "just right" to our specs (which didn't take India into account). There is also a small amount of visible daylight around the A/C unit. ...I'm still calling this a success.
FEB 2010 - THANK YOU to a large multinational corporation for funding demonstration Coolers for poor farmers in India and Thailand using CoolBots! The first of five coolers they've built is BEAUTIFUL and now housing 3 tonnes of Potatoes! More to follow with pics in the next few weeks! This is a terrific use of CoolBots and we're so happy to be a part of the project!
JAN 2010 - We are so proud to have been included in a new USAID project funding demonstrations of CoolBots for small farmers in India, Uganda and Honduras!!! The project will use CoolBots operating coolers built out of local materials and will explore the use of solar panels. We look forward to supporting this project any way we can and will provide regular updates and pictures once the project actually starts up!!
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OCTOBER 2010 - The summer Farmer rush is over, but we're in full-swing shipping to Hunters -- actually shipping more per week to hunters than we were to farmers (but it's a much shorter season). This was a market we hadn't anticipated at all until a couple years ago! We've also started shipping our coolbots through "Fulfillment By Amazon"... it's a neat program. We are not selling coolbots on Amazon yet, but having them handle the shipping now that we're selling so many per week has been a huge relief to us.
MAY 2010 - Just in time for the rush of summer farm orders, we're now shipping the improved 5th generation of CoolBot hardware (starting from the first commercial units that went out in 2006 - there were dozens more before that!). Besides internal programming improvements and a (light duty) internal surge protector, we now use full epoxy coating on all sensors making them more robust. *You should still use an external surge protector of your own because CoolBots are NOT immune to lightning strikes. We get at least one call a month from people with lightning strikes. I think this is because home-built cooler-outbuildings are not as well grounded as houses and the lightning ends up going right through the circuitry... Surge protectors seem like such a cheap and easy solution.
APRIL 2010 - There are now three demonstration CoolBots operating successfully in different parts of India with full monitoring on energy use, temperature, relative humidity and quality of the stored product. So far everything is working well even as temperatures in Delhi hit 113 degrees F! (Actually it should be noted that the Delhi unit was set to 35 def F (2 C) but the unit is holding steady at 37 (3 C) - it just can't get any colder). I think it's because the cooler is in direct Indian sun (no shade!) and there are some 3 tons of stored product in there. The A/C unit is sized "just right" to our specs (which didn't take India into account). There is also a small amount of visible daylight around the A/C unit. ...I'm still calling this a success.
FEB 2010 - THANK YOU to a large multinational corporation for funding demonstration Coolers for poor farmers in India and Thailand using CoolBots! The first of five coolers they've built is BEAUTIFUL and now housing 3 tonnes of Potatoes! More to follow with pics in the next few weeks! This is a terrific use of CoolBots and we're so happy to be a part of the project!
JAN 2010 - We are so proud to have been included in a new USAID project funding demonstrations of CoolBots for small farmers in India, Uganda and Honduras!!! The project will use CoolBots operating coolers built out of local materials and will explore the use of solar panels. We look forward to supporting this project any way we can and will provide regular updates and pictures once the project actually starts up!!
Guaranteed to work in your application!
Try CoolBot RISK FREE for 45 days after delivery! Return your unit before then for any reason (or no reason) and receive a full refund of the purchase price!
