Changing you Priva Computer's clock back from Daylight saving

For those of you with Priva climate control systems, you will need to change the computer clock this weekend to align with the end of Daylight savings. The following is some advice from Priva of how to achieve this:-

In the computer and Priva Office, there are some tips and tricks. This is a tip for changing time of the clock in the Integro or Connext by changing summer to winter and reverse.

We have attached a movie and explanation of the S2-command. In Priva Office a grower can choose to follow the time change. The movie shows how to connect the computer to the PC with Priva Office. The movie only changes the time clock of the computer. The starting times of periods in the controls stay on the already installed time. Some growers want this, but if a grower also wants to move all his controls with one hour, he can use the S2 Command from the terminal (monochrome or from Priva Office Terminal).

With the S2 command from the standard terminal, also all the time settings for the controls are changed one hour, which we think is what most of the growers want…

 We hope this advice is useful to you.

Computerised Climate Control training with Priva expert - Peter Mos

As part of Chisholm Institutes's training partnership with Priva NL, we are proud to announce a specialised day of training with Priva expert Peter Mos.

Peter will be travelling to Australia to deliver this course, and will also spend time with individual growers so that they can benefit from his expertise and skills on their individual systems.

The course that will be run at Chisholm on Wednesday the 18th of April, and has been designed to enable participants to gain knowledge on how to:-

· Get more out of their installation

· Use their computer at an optimum level

· Save energy where possible

· Create a perfect climate for plant growth

Peter Mos is one of Priva’s top climate computer advisors, and the day promises to highly benefical for all participants.

Further details on the course are listed below, and the Chisholm contact is Paul Saunders. He can be reached on e mail at paul.saunders@chisholm.edu.au or on mobile 0408 823 373.

If you are interested in having Peter visit your establishment for a personal consultation, please contact Marcus van Heyst on 03 8795 7750

Our new Trainee...........................................

As regular followers to the blog will have seen, we recently advertised for a trainee to undertake a one year study / practical placement with Chisholm Institute in the glasshouse. The successful candidate was Rebecca Meikle.

Rebecca

Prior to undertaking her traineeship, Rebecca was working at Sages's Cottage, and has now made the transition form a Conservation & Land Management background to a Controlled Environment one.

" I really love my new job, and the level of technology associated with glasshouse crop growing. It's certainly very different from my old job!" said Rebecca. 'My aim is to absorb as much knowledge as I can and to learn a variety of new skills."

Rebecca comes to us from ATEP - Apprenticeship and Traineeship Employment Partners, and they are able to work with growers to utilise individuals within similar programmes to build a more skilled workforce. Further details can be found at http://atep.org.au/

Rebecca will be with us until 2013, at which point she is hoping to move on to a more challenging position with a major grower.