It's currently 25. It got down to 18 just before 8:00 when the sun was coming out.
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Mitsubishi Hyper (Heat Pump) These Heat pumps kick ass . It got down to 9 or 10 here and 67 inside degrees was nothing for it .
Up here in the sticks heating has always been a issue. Propane is a pain to deal with so we have always had heat pumps in this house and they used to suck soo bad.
These things keep working until - 13 F and the air is HOT that comes out of there.
Up here in the sticks heating has always been a issue. Propane is a pain to deal with so we have always had heat pumps in this house and they used to suck soo bad.
These things keep working until - 13 F and the air is HOT that comes out of there.
gusherb
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My car said -3 driving around just a little bit ago. Got home and that thermometer says 0. My car battery has just about had it and needs replacing.
In Mobile, AL
the temp is currently 30 and going to go down to 23 tonight. For us - that's freakin cold. My house has a gas furnace and can keep up (as long as I can pay the bill), BUT, I have a rental unit which is currently unoccupied and the last (POS) renter moved out last week, after having Alabama Power turn off service on December 11 for lack of payment. So, the unit sits without power or heat (totally electric). Power is scheduled to be restored tomorrow, in my name (as landlord) so if I can get the unit through tonight I'll be ok. I was over there this afternoon changing the lock on the front door and adding security to the sliding glass door, and it was getting a bit nippy in there. There's a unit on both sides of my townhouse and no plumbing on an outside wall, so I'm hoping tomorrow will be the beginning of something better.
BTW, anyone interested in an investment property in Mobile, Alabama???
lawrence
the temp is currently 30 and going to go down to 23 tonight. For us - that's freakin cold. My house has a gas furnace and can keep up (as long as I can pay the bill), BUT, I have a rental unit which is currently unoccupied and the last (POS) renter moved out last week, after having Alabama Power turn off service on December 11 for lack of payment. So, the unit sits without power or heat (totally electric). Power is scheduled to be restored tomorrow, in my name (as landlord) so if I can get the unit through tonight I'll be ok. I was over there this afternoon changing the lock on the front door and adding security to the sliding glass door, and it was getting a bit nippy in there. There's a unit on both sides of my townhouse and no plumbing on an outside wall, so I'm hoping tomorrow will be the beginning of something better.
BTW, anyone interested in an investment property in Mobile, Alabama???
lawrence
abcomatic
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Supersuds
Hi John, Thanks for the compliment. One of these days it will be spring and all of this will be forgotten. Gary
Hi John, Thanks for the compliment. One of these days it will be spring and all of this will be forgotten. Gary
Wes, I'm quite pleased with my current two stage/multi-speed air handler Trane Heat Pump. The Ruud that came with the house had to finally be replaced in 2002. I knew I wanted Trane--I'd had problems with the Ruud. My sister in Dallas was still in marketing & PR for their electric company at the time. She told me to select a dealer/contractor that had a certain designation at the time that ensured the highest caliber of conducting business and customer satisfaction. That's how I selected the contractor I have had since 2002. I looked for Mitsubishi Diamond dealer/contractor in my zip code and the only one for my area is my current contractor and there's only one in Waco too. So that right there makes me feel very good about who I've dealt with for the past 15.75 years. Mitsubishi offers replacement products for ducted air handlers/central system. So when the time comes for replacement, I can look into Mitsubishi Hyper products.
Well it reached a high of 30 about 4:00 and is already back down to 28. Low of 19 tonight, high of 31 tomorrow, and 17 tomorrow night. The all-time record low for December is -4 and that was around December 22nd to 24th 1989, thus I was living here. I tried auxiliary heat at some point during that time and it couldn't keep the house at 64 or 65 so I switched back to heat pump mode and it seemed more comfortable. (probably cost me less that way too).
lakewebsterkid
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Our 95 Lennox heat pump has run constantly for the past few days. Auxiliary heat has ran a few times today. I try to make as many hot meals using our stove, crock pot, toaster oven, etc. as possible to raise the temp in the house as much as possible. If it really cold in the house I will try to clean to warm myself up. We would love to use our fireplace, but it has a crack in it.
Our 95 Lennox heat pump has run constantly for the past few days. Auxiliary heat has ran a few times today. I try to make as many hot meals using our stove, crock pot, toaster oven, etc. as possible to raise the temp in the house as much as possible. If it really cold in the house I will try to clean to warm myself up. We would love to use our fireplace, but it has a crack in it.
It’s about 8 degrees
My lochnivar boiler can barely keep up. Too many drafts in my house. I’m getting insulation blown in ASAP. My house was built 1908
I plugged in 2 of my Bitcoin miners in my basement and the temps down there went from 58* to 65 in 12 hours. Hopefully it continues to rise
My lochnivar boiler can barely keep up. Too many drafts in my house. I’m getting insulation blown in ASAP. My house was built 1908
I plugged in 2 of my Bitcoin miners in my basement and the temps down there went from 58* to 65 in 12 hours. Hopefully it continues to rise
sudsmaster
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Oh, there's an 80% efficient forced air gas furnace in the crawl. I turned it on in early November, cranked it up to 68 for the afternoon/evenings, lower at night and during day. However by Christmas I had rediscovered my sweater/pullover collection and now the stat is set to 66F, and I feel just fine... most of the time...
What brand furnace? I forget, and I'm not about to go spelunking to find out again. Let's just say it's about 37 years old, and going strong. Yah, I have CO detector in bedroom, it never goes off.
About R45 in the attic (added about 15 years ago) helps keep the warm in (and the hot out in the summer). Have about R20 under most of the flooring, but ran out of it halfway through and don't think I'll be adding more any time soon. I did add extra insulation to the forced air ducting, including the return duct, which helped to quiet it down. And of course I sealed off as many drafts as I could. Major draft was from the kitchen cooktop hood - it had no damper whatsoever. Easy and cheap fix for that. You do what you can.
This was a fairly hot summer in the greater SF Bay Area, and it was quite a transition from short sleeves and shorts, having to button up the house with shades drawn during the days to keep the heat out, to all windows open and fans blasting (hopefully) cool night air through the house at night, to securing all doors and windows all the time and drawing the shades/curtains at night. I only had to run the portable A/C unit for about a week total. It's got a heating mode but it fills up its drain tray after about an hour in that mode, so I don't bother trying to use it to heat.
At least it's not snowing. Some rain would be nice, though.
All things considered, life is beautiful.
What brand furnace? I forget, and I'm not about to go spelunking to find out again. Let's just say it's about 37 years old, and going strong. Yah, I have CO detector in bedroom, it never goes off.
About R45 in the attic (added about 15 years ago) helps keep the warm in (and the hot out in the summer). Have about R20 under most of the flooring, but ran out of it halfway through and don't think I'll be adding more any time soon. I did add extra insulation to the forced air ducting, including the return duct, which helped to quiet it down. And of course I sealed off as many drafts as I could. Major draft was from the kitchen cooktop hood - it had no damper whatsoever. Easy and cheap fix for that. You do what you can.
This was a fairly hot summer in the greater SF Bay Area, and it was quite a transition from short sleeves and shorts, having to button up the house with shades drawn during the days to keep the heat out, to all windows open and fans blasting (hopefully) cool night air through the house at night, to securing all doors and windows all the time and drawing the shades/curtains at night. I only had to run the portable A/C unit for about a week total. It's got a heating mode but it fills up its drain tray after about an hour in that mode, so I don't bother trying to use it to heat.
At least it's not snowing. Some rain would be nice, though.
All things considered, life is beautiful.
lordkenmore
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What brand furnace? I forget, and I'm not about to go spelunking to find out again.
What?!? You're going to deprive us of this vital information, as well as photos and maybe a video of it running?!?
LOL
Seriously, I don't blame you for not wanting to go spelunking.
The house I grew up in had an oil furnace in the crawlspace. We never used--the house was converted to electric heat before we lived there--but we knew that that furnace was down there. I never really thought about it, but when the house was sold, the buyer commented about what a terrible location for a furnace. As he pointed out, oil furnaces need maintenance, and it was less than convenient crawling under the house. As that buyer commented, that furnace--at least as far he was concerned--would never be used again. (The electric furnace we used still worked...but electricity was expensive enough that one might wish to consider other options.)
What?!? You're going to deprive us of this vital information, as well as photos and maybe a video of it running?!?
LOL
Seriously, I don't blame you for not wanting to go spelunking.
The house I grew up in had an oil furnace in the crawlspace. We never used--the house was converted to electric heat before we lived there--but we knew that that furnace was down there. I never really thought about it, but when the house was sold, the buyer commented about what a terrible location for a furnace. As he pointed out, oil furnaces need maintenance, and it was less than convenient crawling under the house. As that buyer commented, that furnace--at least as far he was concerned--would never be used again. (The electric furnace we used still worked...but electricity was expensive enough that one might wish to consider other options.)
Auxiliary on the Carrier is locked-out (except for defrosting) until (current setting) 20°F ambient. It's maintaining 70°F and cycling without effort. Runs longer toward continuous when the weather is wet/freezing vs. dry/freezing.
gusherb
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Temps today peaked at 3° and sunny. It was below zero just past 4 and already -6° as I type. The downstairs furnace has run most of the day, started running in second stage about an hour ago and back into first stage since the stove has been on.
The past 7 nights have been below zero, some way below. Not to figure in wind chills. My boiler runs more than it shuts off and the baseboard units keep their constant tick tick and I know heat is coming, Chewing up oil like crazy. This is turning into a winter we wished never happened and its just beginning, then a big snowstorm Thursday, back in the deep freeze to clean it up. Global warming is certainly welcome to come around here.
Eeeesh, it's been a rough 48hrs going from '17 to '18.
-10F tonight.
My fairly new variable speed Trane XR80 has been running constantly.
I'm on a cement slab so all all the negative degrees these few days have been radiating right in.
And whatever few little leaks I have, have been severely exploited with little drafts and ICE forming everywhere around the windows and doors. Even on parts of walls near the floor.
I've lowered my humidistat as low as I can tolerate for sleeping.
I've also kicked the fan on RUN because the cycling was getting crazy.
I'll say this, it's been in Low stage for 95% of it! So not too shabby.
I'm still going to fear the next gas bill though......
-10F tonight.
My fairly new variable speed Trane XR80 has been running constantly.
I'm on a cement slab so all all the negative degrees these few days have been radiating right in.
And whatever few little leaks I have, have been severely exploited with little drafts and ICE forming everywhere around the windows and doors. Even on parts of walls near the floor.
I've lowered my humidistat as low as I can tolerate for sleeping.
I've also kicked the fan on RUN because the cycling was getting crazy.
I'll say this, it's been in Low stage for 95% of it! So not too shabby.
I'm still going to fear the next gas bill though......
gusherb
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The XR80 is a single stage 80% furnace with a PSC blower. They have a few models with variable speed blowers, like the XV80, XV95, XC95 etc. So I'm not sure which one you meant to say.
It was -10° by the time I got to bed. According to the thermostat logs it reached -12 between 6-7AM. The run time has increased dramatically between 12/22 and 1/1, and then the total run time for the month of December. That's just the upstairs furnace! The downstairs one doesn't have these logs.
It was -10° by the time I got to bed. According to the thermostat logs it reached -12 between 6-7AM. The run time has increased dramatically between 12/22 and 1/1, and then the total run time for the month of December. That's just the upstairs furnace! The downstairs one doesn't have these logs.
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It's been about -10 Celsius here in Nova Scotia. My house uses electric heat but I offset it with one of these bad boys.
I usually set back the thermostat from 69 to 67 when I get up at 3:30 AM and switch the fan from continuous to automatic, but this morning, I just left everything as it was because the house was comfortable and I did not want to do anything to upset the good thing I had going with the ferocious cold outside. The only thing we had going for us weather-wise was that the breeze was gentle.
mark_wpduet
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It was -3
in Lexington this morning. It's crazy we get that cold with no snow. A couple of years ago we had deep snows and it went down to -18. My water froze at the bathroom sink, which is near on an outside wall. It didn't burst when it thawed, thank God. Our power bills are going to be insane
in Lexington this morning. It's crazy we get that cold with no snow. A couple of years ago we had deep snows and it went down to -18. My water froze at the bathroom sink, which is near on an outside wall. It didn't burst when it thawed, thank God. Our power bills are going to be insane
gusherb
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Yesterday's high of 1°F broke record for lowest high on New Year's Day in Chicago.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/chicagos-bitter-cold-new-years-day-marks-coldest-on-record/
Downstate in Indianapolis they tied a record low at -12, Lafayette (90 miles south of here) recorded a low of -19°. The same news article said the local utility in Lafayette had people complaining of a hum which they said was due to the extra high demand. Methinks there must be a lot of heat pumps/electric heating down there or something, or perhaps West Lafayette being a college town lots of space heaters. Who knows. Up here just about everywhere has NG so electric demand doesn't go up at all really.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/chicagos-bitter-cold-new-years-day-marks-coldest-on-record/
Downstate in Indianapolis they tied a record low at -12, Lafayette (90 miles south of here) recorded a low of -19°. The same news article said the local utility in Lafayette had people complaining of a hum which they said was due to the extra high demand. Methinks there must be a lot of heat pumps/electric heating down there or something, or perhaps West Lafayette being a college town lots of space heaters. Who knows. Up here just about everywhere has NG so electric demand doesn't go up at all really.
I've noticed in cold weather that the power lines in front of the house make a singing sound. Not sure how to describe it, but it is higher-pitched than what I'd think of as a hum, and not continuous.
Of course, current draw is very high in hot weather due to AC load, but I don't hear the sound then...so it's a mystery.
Of course, current draw is very high in hot weather due to AC load, but I don't hear the sound then...so it's a mystery.
sudsmaster
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My workplace is on a local street down which run high tension power lines (you know, the ones atop big steel towers). During foggy days over the summer, these would snap crackle pop. Never saw any flashes, though.
Not sure what causes power lines to hum. Maybe Tolivac, who works with high power radio waves, can tell us.
Not sure what causes power lines to hum. Maybe Tolivac, who works with high power radio waves, can tell us.
Moisture in the air-in high amounts can cause the powerlines to make crackling,buzzing noises.At night you may see corona around the lines,too.See this on the 115Kv lines feeding our site on real humid days-at night the corona is kinda beautiful.Tooo see the corona you have to let your eyes get used to the dark and no other lights nearby.
Oh yes supposed to SNOW in our area for Wednesday.May get 4 ".Glad I don't have to go to work that night.
sudsmaster
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Fog and Corona
Oh, well, too many street lights to see the corona outside the workplace, probably.
But maybe some day I'll venture out there at night to take a look see. There's a big PG&E power grid thingie about a block away. It's about the size of a football field. Lots of stuff that would look at home in a Flash Gordon movie.
Oh, well, too many street lights to see the corona outside the workplace, probably.
But maybe some day I'll venture out there at night to take a look see. There's a big PG&E power grid thingie about a block away. It's about the size of a football field. Lots of stuff that would look at home in a Flash Gordon movie.
It was 8 degrees above at 3:30 this AM in Belchville and I just checked and it is down to 6. Both the Weather Porn Channel and AccuWeather agree on this, but only online. Cable Weather Porn Channel only gives readings from and forecasts for DC now--worthless POS. There is no wind though so it was not a brutal assault type of cold, just the slowly penetrating deadly type of cold. I think the next two days are supposed to be windy. That is a different matter. It is very cold in our office so I wore my fleece lined Ball Room Jeans and they are not any too warm in here. Imagine that they put about 75KW of strip heat in our air handler several years ago and have not used it in the past two years. People retire from this place and take secrets with them and things don't work right thereafter.
Sudsmaster-what oy haveust be a power company substation.These take the HV 69Kv-on up and step it the voltage down to 13/7Kv distribution voltages to serve the transformers in your neighborhood that step the power down to 120/240 for your house or 3 ph power for busnissess.
Summer down under
It's summer here in Australia.
Today about 20 degrees Celsius. (68 F.)
By Saturday, Melbourne will be 41 C. (106 F.)
We will be a bit cooler at only 37 C. (99 F.)
We have been unseasonably cool since Christmas, my tomato plants are wondering where the sunshine went. They will find out on Saturday...
Owner built, mud-brick, passive solar designed, well insulated, double glazed home...haven't needed heating or cooling for weeks. I expect we will need some cooling on the weekend. Mitsubishi Electric 2.5 kw cooling split system in the bedroom.
In winter we have a Magnum wood heater.
It's summer here in Australia.
Today about 20 degrees Celsius. (68 F.)
By Saturday, Melbourne will be 41 C. (106 F.)
We will be a bit cooler at only 37 C. (99 F.)
We have been unseasonably cool since Christmas, my tomato plants are wondering where the sunshine went. They will find out on Saturday...
Owner built, mud-brick, passive solar designed, well insulated, double glazed home...haven't needed heating or cooling for weeks. I expect we will need some cooling on the weekend. Mitsubishi Electric 2.5 kw cooling split system in the bedroom.
In winter we have a Magnum wood heater.
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