When Donelson Foods, parent company to the O'Charley's restaurant chain, wanted to turn a warehouse facility into a food service production facility, they needed new climate control. Lennox commercial territory manager Chris Saxon worked with the Lee Co. sales representative Warner Jones, to implement an hvac system that would work with the special food service environment. Lee Co., a mechanical contractor in the Nashville, TN, area, used several Lennox system features to meet Donelson's needs.
Because the new food production facility employees would use very potent chemical cleaning compounds to sanitize the facility, thermostat installation presented a challenge. The walls of the food service facility are sprayed down each night with a cleaning compound. A wall thermostat would be ruined by the solution. That's where the Lennox Network Control Panel (NCP) came in handy. The NCP is a direct digital controller system. Each of the units is equipped with a duct-mounted return air temperature sensor that ties into the NCP.