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mr.mindless

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Re: new house for mikemike
« Reply #390 on: October 02, 2020, 10:07:22 AM »
I just had a thought: I think I'll try flipping two legs on my idler motor. If it has a bad winding (how is it starting and running and sounding fine) but it may not be generating on that leg
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Re: new house for mikemike
« Reply #391 on: October 02, 2020, 11:46:08 AM »
I switched legs on my idler motor, and it made no difference.

lathe draws 12/12/2.9 and has no other circuit protection.
mill draws 3.5/3/0.4 and pops its disconnect breakers after a bit.
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Re: new house for mikemike
« Reply #392 on: October 02, 2020, 06:11:08 PM »
took some further measurements, and verified that the thermally controlled breakers are getting hot to the touch. I almost wonder if the contactors are dirty. it's supposed to be at 18 amp break, and I'm pulling 4.5 through it.


N-A 118v
N-B 167v
N-C 115v

A-B 199v
A-C 233v
B-C 210v

head motor 1.5hp 4.5a
A 4.6a
B .49a
C 4.5a

feed motor .5hp 2a
A 2.1a
B .47a
C 2.3a


I disconnected the idler motor and ran on just the static converter with head and feed motors. didn't measure amp draws, but breakers still got warm and popped.

I'm thinking I have faulty breakers.
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Re: new house for mikemike
« Reply #393 on: October 02, 2020, 07:57:19 PM »
that would be convenient and easy! 

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Re: new house for mikemike
« Reply #394 on: October 02, 2020, 08:03:28 PM »
Said fuck it. Bypassed the breakers. No fire yet. No warm wires. Will check draw in a bit. Has done 6-7x duty cycle of previous pops and just about done.
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Re: new house for mikemike
« Reply #395 on: October 03, 2020, 09:21:00 PM »
Igniter replaced. It works. No matches or fire gel, just electricity.

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Re: new house for mikemike
« Reply #396 on: October 08, 2020, 11:30:58 PM »
Took some fiddling but I think I have the super fancy thermostat all set to run my pellet stove, with propane kicking in if it goes 5* under set point or can’t hit set point in an hour. Can also change mode to “emergency heat” instead of “heat” and run pure propane in a couple taps on the screen. Setup was complex, but day to day use is real nice.

Learned that my office stove should have an auto igniter too; Ineed to decarbon more things and look for that. Could be sweet to have that preheat for me instead of turning up baseboard electric to warm the office. TBD on how well the oil furnace heat gets to the office, it’s the very opposite direction even if doors are open.

Could maybe get another of these fancy units and set up staged heat if I wanted to get real bougie. I don’t think I can have it call stage 1 heat during overnight and stage 2 during the day though. I’ll have to figure out how to exercise the slab heat once in a while to keep it happy, and make sure the slab doesn’t freeze near the edges? Or is a 45-50* maintained temp enough to not worry about it even in bitter cold?
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Re: new house for mikemike
« Reply #397 on: October 09, 2020, 07:35:26 AM »
Figures...
Woke up to a nice warm house - from aux heat. First failure of the pellet stove to light since I replaced the igniter. Figures. I got a spare, but if it failed inside a month (or is that actually inside a week? Oye) I’ll probably shell out for the first party replacement instead of the reasonably priced one. I’ll have to test that this weekend.
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Re: new house for mikemike
« Reply #398 on: October 09, 2020, 08:31:22 AM »
I’ll have to figure out how to exercise the slab heat once in a while to keep it happy, and make sure the slab doesn’t freeze near the edges? Or is a 45-50* maintained temp enough to not worry about it even in bitter cold?

What’d you mean by “exercise the slab heat”? Slab heat isn’t something you can turn it up when you need it. Set the temp and leave it there all winter. Treat it as your primary heating source, especially when shop is not in use. I’d say 50* will be good, or 60* if you’ll be in the shop a lot through the winter.

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Re: new house for mikemike
« Reply #399 on: October 09, 2020, 10:10:20 AM »
Right. But free waste oil vs 1.69/gal propane.

I just don’t want to give any risk of freezing it.
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Re: new house for mikemike
« Reply #400 on: October 09, 2020, 10:31:50 AM »
freeze it?  it should be filled with glycol mix...?

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Re: new house for mikemike
« Reply #401 on: October 09, 2020, 10:41:29 AM »
I should sample it, I think there's a drain port. but it's hooked to domestic water just like my hydronic heat was at Norman Rd.
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Re: new house for mikemike
« Reply #402 on: October 09, 2020, 09:44:05 PM »
Stove lit several times this evening. I guess it was a fluke this morning.
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Re: new house for mikemike
« Reply #403 on: October 12, 2020, 09:15:30 AM »
Confirmed chimney stove pipe all fine. ordered new support and plug. There's a Selkirk part number on a band clamp, and it looks like the Selkirk pipe I bought for the furnace at Norman. I really hope that's correct.

Wasted a lot of time and effort trying to make my lil trencher. Design works, and strong enough, but single point hitch and lightweight tractor don't let me get to the 6" minimum depth I'm after. Especially when an 18" trencher rental is $66/4hr. I was hoping to direct bury pex for garden watering, too, and that's not placed yet. So I guess I'll have to change up priorities to get that done in one shot. 3pt hitch for the win.
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Re: new house for mikemike
« Reply #404 on: October 12, 2020, 09:29:43 AM »
my tractor will pull 150' of pex 6" under ground with ease with the tool i made