new house for mikemike

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Radiant floor is one of the two propane heat sources

I should probably parts canon a $400 gas valve at it

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or clean the spider web goo out of the gas valve orfice- most common failure.  give it a good air gun blast / shop vacuuming

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Decided to look at the hydronic heater again just now, it has a water leak now too. I’d cleaned a lot of green off the manifold when I first opened it, not sure if it froze or if it rotted through. Leak on the inside side not the door side, but it’s definitely mounted in a cold spot. ¯\_(?)_/¯

Coldest I’ve seen in the shop is high 30s, and not sustained.

Pressure had been zero. Drained now.

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I grabbed the Emporia with 8 taps. Glad same is working for you.

I'll probably move it among my 4 panels to get an idea of what's doing what and then leave it on the main measuring the 2 subs its direct to (shop is daisychained subs I think) and watch furnace and ac and space heaters.

Just installed. Doubt I’ll move the whole unit around, but probably will move circuit taps once I know what’s what and follow what’s interesting. Circulating air with the furnace blower is expensive (500w), and unsurprisingly the shop as a whole uses a TON of power (2kw!).

my main panel is jam packed, and it was just about impossible to get the taps around the main feeds.

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Wow

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Couple discoveries playing with breakers and watching shop subpanel meter

This first item probably paid for the gadget

- The electric baseboard in my office was staying on with the thermostat all the way down. Just under 1kw
50 is apparently below its lowest set point

- The fridge I have out here is a PIG. It came from the house kitchen when I moved in. 15ish year old whirlpool. 500w

- Even with the LED tubes, the lights out here are BIG. Almost 2kw. That seems insane? I need to do some napkin math for that, I wonder if I missed

- The hanging propane furnace (that doesn’t light, that I’ve never looked at) takes 5-10w for no reason

- The oil preheater on the oil furnace cycles frequently at 450w
- 350w to run the waste oil furnace. I’ll guess another 200w for its fan, that’s what almost all fans seem to be
- air compressor just cycled, 8kw while running, slowly drops as it warms up

I didn’t chase the 95w base draw from the old shop panel. There are some chargers and stuff plugged in over there

My office out here uses about 330w for computers and everything, plus another 50w for overhead lights.

This is kinda fascinating

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370w for waste oil furnace fan. It just came on and told me

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The lights on the tree out front are 750w. Lots of them are incandescent.

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I just counted up the lights in the shop and looked at the amazon listing. Power consumption is just about on the money. Should be 2070w at listed spec of 45w each and measured is about 1700 for everything on the light switch, which adds a couple other lights too beyond just the 8 footers.

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bought a small dehumidifier for the shop (would be large anywhere else)
floors and tools are all sweating up a storm. hopefully it makes a dent and can prevent some rust.

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Dehumidifier made a HUGE difference. Also put a window AC in the shop office after upgrading one at the house to a really nick 12kbtu Windmill unit. It's keeping up pretty damn well even with current weather and it's quiet enough that it's just straight up right in the bedroom windows.

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went through some May 2020 pictures of my big move last night. I was looking for how my fiber got run through the front yard so I can improve a chance of not cutting the Spectrum home-run when Frontier buries what they'll install. We'll see about that tomorrow morning - turns out I didn't take a picture of that.

Frontier claims symetic speeds everywhere from 500m to 7gb (!).

I'm having them to 2gb for $65/mo intro price, $75 regular. I've been spending $103 for 600x20 from Spectrum and any time I ask them about getting better upload they say there's no option. even their 2gb is only like 50 or 100mb up. Frustrates me frequently when working from home, I have to pay attention to avoiding downloading anything local to push back up to our storage and do that from a remote machine on campus.

I hope they're at least close to as reliable and it'll be interesting to see how they do as far as meeting their speed claims. Zero marks against Spectrum for either of those. Always up and always exactly what was stated for speed. ALWAYS.

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funny - looking to go where to cancel my Spectrum, they have a $0 upgrade available to me for 1gb up/down. Still $40/mo more than what I'll be giving frontier for the same.

So far so good. The installer who is 3rd party and works for multiple provider has been pretty pleased with Frontier fiber and would switch to them himself if they were available to him.

He had to run fiber down about 3 poles to me and cross the street, took him an hour and a half. I'm up and running with tested actual 950 up and down at the router, and 650/650 at my office computer across 2 lightning arrestors and 2 switches while on work VPN. if it's reliable I have zero complaints. Got me a brand new eero 7 base as well, and I was already on eero so I'll actually use it.

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70mph winds took branches and some neighbor trees this afternoon. No other property damage.

I lost the only live windward limb on one of my big half dead ash trees, asked Chad about taking that down for me. It’s a bit beyond my skills for sake of size alone.