My furnace, actually an electric heat pump, wasn’t keeping up to holding temperature too well. Checked filter. Oops… went a bit too long. Reminder to others, check your filter now. Very dirty filters will definitely reduce system efficiency (higher operating cost) and could damage equipment. Don’t put it off. Also don’t run without filters if you have a heat pump or air conditioning in your system. A few days won’t hurt but all season could...
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Saturation
That’s when something has reached the point of accumulation or collection that there is no room for more. It’s also the point where I stop tracking something that was of interest to me. I stop counting because I know there is no room for more. There is no such thing as 110% saturation except for warp drives on Star Trek. The problem I have with saturation is it causes me to ignore possibly important information. I...
Continue reading...Getting Down to Business
After I got all my tax work done, I was feeling so good that I tackled getting my The Hobbyist Machine Store (THMS) bookkeeping in first class condition. I worked on that second most favorite thing to do (next to doing the taxes) until bedtime last night. I got it finished. I had the end of year (2011) balanced, closed and reports printed as needed for taxes, but I had let the first quarter of...
Continue reading...Health and Comfort in North Texas
To what I am referring is the percent relative humidity (%RH) in the homes in my area and I am sure in thousands of other homes in the southern states. I am a Yankee by birth and a Texan by choice. I have been raised since birth in a business called Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning. (HVAC) I am, as they say on Myth Busters, “Don’t try this yourself, we are experts!”, an expert in...
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