Honeywell Smartfit - one actuator fits all valves

Even greater productivity for installers and the means to higher profit margins.

BRACKNELL, UK, 10 October 2000 - Honeywell’s Smartfit central heating and hot water control system is even simpler to install now that its standard snap-on actuator unit fits all valve types. The actuator is easy to wire, as it connects to the Smartfit base unit via a single lead with plug-in connections at both ends. The result is even greater productivity for installers and the means to higher profit margins.

Installers can install a Smartfit control system quickly and easily, without the need for a wiring diagram. They simply connect the two-wire room unit, plug in the valves and cylinder sensor, and the system is complete, whether it is an S-Plan or Y-Plan.

All Honeywell Smartfit system connections are low voltage and polarity-free. Although installers still need to make mains voltage connections to the pump and boiler, even these have been reduced to one wire per terminal. By comparison, traditional systems require more than 30 wires to be prepared and connected correctly, mains voltage being carried to every unit in the system and sometimes need several wires at a single terminal.

Readers can request further details from: Honeywell Control Systems Ltd., Honeywell House, Arlington Business Park, Bracknell, Berkshire RG12 1EB. Tel: 01344 656000. Fax: 01344 656240. E-mail: uk.infocentre@honeywell.com Web: www.honeywell.com/uk

Honeywell is a US$24-billion diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings, homes and industry; automotive products; power generation systems; specialty chemicals; fibres; plastics; and electronic and advanced materials. The company is a leading provider of software and solutions, and Internet e-hubs including MyPlant.com, MyFacilities.com and MyAircraft.com (joint venture with United Technologies and i2 Technologies). Honeywell employs approximately 120,000 people in 95 countries and is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol HON, as well as on the London, Chicago and Pacific stock exchanges. It is one of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is also a component of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index. Additional information on the company is available on the Internet at www.honeywell.com.

This release contains forward-looking statements as defined in Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, including statements about future business operations, financial performance and market conditions. Such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties inherent in business forecasts.

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Honeywell Control Systems Ltd
Honeywell House, Arlington Business Park
Bracknell, Berkshire RG12 1EB
01344 656000. Fax: 01344 656240.
Enquiries e-mail: uk.infocentre@honeywell.com
Web: www.honeywell.com/uk