Yeah it's a tad cool here....
So here I am in Calgary Alberta, doing my best to work max hours and build stuff..... Brilliant Bob brings the TT and figures, yeah, I'll save big time on motels and all that. Well, the weath...
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pianotuna wrote:
Hi Bob,
You may want to check out my thread on heating 100% electrically.
heating electrically a "back yard" report
I'm glad it is warming up for you. Heading for -31 here tonight.
Good post Don. Thanks for sharing.
I do have one advantage with my furnace. My fresh water tank is under the sofa, backed up to my front bedroom. The HWT, furnace and pump are located at the very back, under the bunk, beside the bathroom. It appears that the water feed from the tank to the pump runs in or close to the furnace duct run. When I turn on the cold in the bathroom to brush my teeth, the water is not very cold, indicating the heat ducts warm it on the way back. And as long as the furnace and HWT are on, my pump won't freeze because its nice and warm in there.
I am wondering if it would freeze up if I ran only electric heat. Likely would.
If I could have access to more electric, I would certainly utilize it. But because I move from site to site, I am lucky to get only one 15A circuit, which I can only usually run one electric heater at 750 watts, for fear of tripping the breaker in the customers house.
I brought my Honda 2000 genny but only for emergency. I have not been using it. Might be hard to start in this weather anyhow.
