ACE AIR is different because... it seems like it has been well thought out and put together by a group of men that truly care rather than a big corporation just throwing something at you.

They called me that one of the motors looked like it was going out. Did you know, they're monitoring that? Like, “you may have a bearing going out,” which, you know, who else is gonna tell me that?

And right now, the way the world is... if you don't have customer service, you're in trouble.

One, one thing I love about Amber is the tech support.

They answer when you call, but if they don't, they get back to you within a short period of time. Genuinely able to answer all your questions.

I’ve had discussions with Joey:

“ I swear Joey, it's running in the rain. ‘No, that's the correct time.’ Okay. If you say so.”

It's good to work with a company where I'm not talking to a computer or talking to somebody in another country, so I'm very happy.

 I really appreciate the service that Amber has... the customer support is really good.

I would say that the amount of money I pay them, I feel is almost worth it, just the time they've spent with me getting this set up, learning the system when I have problems with it.

The other thing I like about ACE AIR is it appears that there's a lot of other things coming down the road, and I want to see what those are going to be.

 For me, when I was researching ACE AIR and talking to Lucas, it kind of seemed a little bit “too good to be true,” but sometimes simple is just better.

But, it literally came in a UPS box.  It's magnetic to the roof, so you just slap-it-on. You gotta drill one hole for one sensor to go in and caulk it.  After you've done one... you're ready to rock.

The one thing that I really like, and this is... gonna sound strange,  but they actually watched my bins or watched the monitoring system too.

The customer care with the system is second to none.

When I put it in, it just worked. It just took off and worked.

If I had any questions, I got an immediate answer on the phone. I really liked that because I felt like I always got an answer and got walked through it.

They're different all the way around.

Amber, I've found is a very hands-on company.

We've been really well taken care of and that's what always impresses me about them.  

 Yeah,  didn't do cable systems, didn't do any of that.

We landed on as ACE AIR as the number one 'cause of the no-cable system and being able to have the technology right on your phone.

 The first thing that caught my eye about the ACE AIR system was the CO2 monitoring and the no-cables.

 I purchased the ACE AIR system because of the no-cables easy install, and it was something that I was able to install and not hire a technical engineer to do it.

I think what has been so appealing about ACE AIR to us is, is two things.

I guess I should have said three. The support system has been amazing. They're just a phone call away and they always help us.

It's really pretty simple. You get on the website and say you're interested...

And the next thing you know, there's box parts on your doorstep.  Pretty simple process.

I've had lots of people ask me about 'em or they've heard me talk about it.  I've referred several people to the website.

Prior to install of the ACE AIR system, we did have often, out condition grain that we were not aware of. Since install the system, we have not had any of those events ever.

Just getting that info right on my cell phone to tell us when to run our fans is, is invaluable, honestly.

We told them what type of system and voltages we had.

The kit came in a box within a couple of days and the instructions were pretty straightforward.

Installation wasn't very difficult.

ACE AIR has saved us a lot of time and a lot of money for electric use because we've been able to monitor the system from a distance, and been able to turn the fans on and off only as needed.  

We've found out that we've used our fans a lot less this last year because we were able to monitor closer.

We met the guy that had the GSI cables before your system. That's when we made the decision from there.

The ACE AIR system takes five minutes to explain how it works and what we need to do. The cable system... after a half hour, I was still not interested.

 During harvest when we're filling and dumping hot corn, I'm utilizing that temperature and CO2 all the time.

The CO2 monitoring is the initial source of grain going outta condition. Temperature is secondary to that, and that was something an electrician told me 15 years ago, but nobody else had these sensors that was simple enough to install and be able to monitor remotely as well.

This fall, I was putting grain in it. I didn't turn the fans on right away. And, about a day later came a warning... a text message that I had CO2.

It’s just a peace of mind thing, you know.  I'm sitting there on a Sunday afternoon, “I wonder how the bins are?” I can look and see where the CO2 is, and it's always nice and smooth.

We had a CO2 spike and we went to the bin. To us, we couldn't detect that it was going bad.

That peace of mind that the CO2 sensor provides, allows me to carry grain into July and August. That peace of mind is worth a lot.

Prior to install of the ACE AIR system, we did have often, out condition grain that we were not aware of. Since install the system, we have not had any of those events ever.

Just getting that info right on my cell phone to tell us when to run our fans is, is invaluable, honestly.

 Oh, by far the Amber system is much easier to secure in and install into a grain bin.

This one, we just went up and drilled a hole into the roof, and drop the, what I call a ‘sniffer’ down into the grain bin and... that's it!

The feature that I use the most is the feature that shows me the carbon dioxide level in the bin.

I don't have to crawl up on the bin if every time I want to know if the grain's still in reasonably good condition.

What I found after having it three years, If we do have an issue, we we're finding it so much quicker.

Where with the cable systems, I feel like you're finding the problem after it's a little bit too late.

The feature that I love is the grain inventory level. You open the app and you check your phone and it gives you a readout right away. Knowing how many bushels you have in that bin.

Instead of... I would have to climb up each bin... knock on the bin... or do the rock test. You throw the rock up on the grain bin, and if it's a dull noise, then you know where the, where it's at.

 We have never had a CO2 alert.  We have had some bumps in the CO2, but I've never gone into the inspection...you know... “inspect your grain,” scenario on the CO2.

I don't have to worry about, “did I miss something?” Yep. It's all there.

For me it was the alert of the CO2 for sure. You know, we work pretty hard on corn running fans, but you still get something that slips by and it's a mess.

I just needed something to tell me if I have a bad spot in the bin that I need to address.

I would say that the feature that we use the most is the CO2 alert.

We've caught a couple of different instances where it has caught some problems very, very early on that we would've never caught with a cable system.

ACE AIR was, in my opinion, the easiest to work with and the most cost effective for what I was trying to accomplish.

To install, the top piece takes maybe five minutes. And that was probably including crawling up there and come, coming back down. It just didn't take very long at all.  Super simple.

We use the CO2 alerts a lot.  What we found is that the CO2 alerts let us know a little bit faster what was actually happening inside that bin.

Farmers should buy ACE AIR, if they have any doubt about what's going on inside of their grain bins.

It made sense to me that you could sense the CO2, being produced out of spoiling grain, which is effectively biomass.

Monitoring the CO2, has been a great value for me. ACE AIR has kept me from having to come over once a week and climb our bins in the middle of the winter when there's ice and risks of climbing. It's been very, very handy.

What I use the most is the CO2 alerts.

And it's really great to see if it's moving up and down.

You gotta be able to know what's in your bins. You need a heads up.

The only monitoring systems that we have used before were cables, and... I don’t even remember the names of ‘em.

Farmers should buy ACE AIR if they want to keep track of their commodities in the bin.

With bigger bins there are bigger worries.  Money's sitting in there. It's harder to check.

I had gone to cable route before and I didn't like it too much. Had a lot of cable problems.

You look at the CO2. Everything's nice and steady. Straight line. I like doing that.  It's just peace of mind, you know?

Before, with moisture... it was more of a ‘by guess by golly.’

 When I first saw the ad for the ACE AIR, I thought of the convenience of being able to control it from the iPad or from my phone... the ability to dry it down with some of the software that they have developed for it.

 Before ACE AIR, I would just turn the fans on and leave them on all the time.  And I think a lot of farmers do that and it’s just does not economically make a lot of sense.

Now, I don't spend near as much on my electric bill. The fans kick on and kick off on their own.  That's exactly what I was looking for in this product.

Before ACE AIR, we would fill each bin independently.  I would just turn on the fans every night and let them fans run. And then we would just randomly go and check those bins and make sure they're cooling down.  Then after about 30 days, just shut 'em off.

Well, now with ACE AIR, we know what the temperature actually is so we can turn 'em off earlier and start saving electricity.

Before we had ACE AIR monitoring, we spent more time over-aerating our grain because it ran... we just turned it on and ran until we got tired of hearing the fan run and, uh, turned it off.

With ACE AIR there is a controller you install down on your fans, it’s pretty much just put-it-together and go.  If you’ve installed most anything by yourself, if you're familiar with GPS on a tractor, it’s easy.

The fans turn on if necessary without actually being on the ground out here, and not having to turn 'em off when it's time to turn 'em off.

The fan automation was something that really caught my eye because we've had to go out there manually all the time.

So this is a whole new ball game, having the option to control your fans from a distance.

I used to run my fans in my brain.

I had to keep track of what loads, the average moisture, which bin it went in and tried to average all of this stuff in my head. I’d do a lot of scribbling down on paper. Everything was in my head.

When we ran our fans before... we’d say, “Did you remember to turn the fan off?”

“Did you turn the fan on?”

“No, I forgot”.

Another cool thing for me... I can watch it from the combine cab, even though I'm not running it. A lot of times I don't, I don't come to the site that day.

I'm in the cab from Sun up till sundown, but I can still get on there and I can tell you how many bushel I sent you and at what percent, and I can see the fans are running.

ACE AIR is different because the environmental aspect of what you're looking at in your storage systems is phenomenal. It is something that you can rely on and count on day to day. 

We will generate the automation each and every week, and adjust for the upcoming weather.

There might be a couple days in that window that weren't fit for drying grain, and I just left the fan on because it was easier.

Now with this system it does it for me. It says, “Hey, it's not gonna be fit to dry.” That's the biggest thing. I'm 45 miles from home base, so, That wasn't feasible. I wanted something like ACE AIR where I could do it from anywhere.

ACE AIR has saved us a lot of time and a lot of money for electric use because we've been able to monitor the system from a distance, and been able to turn the fans on and off only as needed.

We've found out that we've used our fans a lot less this last year because we were able to monitor closer.

And shut'em off in the morning, if we remembered.

And do that the next day...
and the next day.

Now. It does it itself.

Before ACE AIR, we ran fans on a guess.

We knew we had to have air on the bins and so what we would do is try to watch the weather. But, we were running fans entirely too much.

Before the ACE AIR system, we would basically run our fans when we felt it was necessary. Whether we felt the weather was right.

Now, with the ACE AIR system, it takes a lot of the guesswork out of it. And also puts math and actual statistics into it.

 Prior to installation of the ACE AIR System, we were largely just going off feel and gut honestly, on when we would run our fans.

 And now with ACE AIR we know exactly when to run our fans, which has no doubt saved us some grain condition and just a lot of troubleshoot and a lot of manpower cleaning out bins.

Before the Automators were put in, we spent a lot of time driving up and down the road trying to remember to turn on and turn off fans at the right time.

After we put the ACE AIR systems on, we can sit down together, create a prescription and know that they're operating.

 Installation was so easy. We probably installed it within 15 minutes.

All you have to do...you climb upon your bin, you drill a hole in, put your analyzer down in there, that the CO2 analyzer and you slap the solar panel on... and you're, you're ready to go.

The installation actually was utterly amazing how easy it was.

I'm the type of guy that typically will do something wrong before I do it right.  And this was dummy proof.

Really... it was!  I was very surprised at how easy it was to install.

 Well, I'm an old man, so the installation process, I let my nephew crawl up on the bin and drill hole.

It was a pretty seamless process.

He did that in about 10 minutes. Pretty simple for him.

We actually started hanging the cables down into the bin on the roof...

 Oh, by far the Amber system is much easier to secure in and install into a grain bin.

ACE AIR is different because it has very little hardware to install.

There's a controller you install down on your fans and... probably if you’ve installed most anything by yourself... if you're familiar with GPS on a tractor.

I purchased the ACE AIR System because of the ‘no-cables’ easy install.

 It was all laid out in the instructions and it took a matter of minutes to get up on that roof, find the location, drill the hole, and install.

Easy peasy.

It was easy.

You drill the holes, drop it in, just like they say. But, yeah, I did it all myself.

 The installation of the ACE AIR system was super easy.

We've got four of their sensors on our bins and it probably took less than an hour... all told... to put 'em in.

Install process is very simple and I've done ten of ‘em now.

If I find something that's unusual that doesn't fit the schematic they are there to help me out.

Installation of ACE AIR wasn't very difficult.

The kit came in a box within a couple of days and the instructions were pretty straightforward.

Easy peasy.

 The install for the ACE AIR system...the hardest part was bringing myself to cut a hole in the roof of my brand new grain bin. Other than that, super simple.

It just didn't take very long at all.

I've had lots of people ask me about 'em or they've heard me talk about it.

The install was relatively easy.

It's not partial to a specific area.

Never had any problems with our system so far.

Pretty simple.

 Putting everything in was really simple.

When we received the kits, we put the units on the roofs ourselves. Drilled the hole, put 'em in just like the instructions.

When I put it in, it just worked. It just took off and worked.

Simple. Open the kit up, get on the app report where it's going, what bin...

It’s a simple thing. Drill the hole in. I don't need someone to do it, and I just need it to tell me if I have a bad spot in that bin that I need to address.

We purchased ACE AIR because we could put them in for a reasonable cost.

The installation process was very, very simple and seamless.

I bought ACE AIR because I was looking for something that I could handle myself, that I didn't need a tech team from Canada to keep me running.

It literally came in a UPS box. It's magnetic to the roof, so you just slap-it-on. You gotta drill one hole for one sensor to go in and caulk it.  After you've done one... you're ready to rock.

Oh, the install process was a cinch. It's so simple.

ACE AIR, though, was a self-install... 30 minutes per bin, you're done.

I mean, it didn't take but a few minutes to put the hole thing together. We climbed up on the bin, drilled the hole.

I bought ACE AIR because the ease of it.