Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
03-23-13, 06:06 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 828
Michael
Good going. You will see some of my...
Michael
Good going. You will see some of my posts on the manifesto. We as well had the oil thirsty hot water heaters suppling or home for heat. The hot water was circulated in our concrete floor...
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Forum: Renovations & New Construction
03-13-13, 12:19 PM
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Replies: 327
Views: 60,821
Cbearden
Congrats on your new build. You...
Cbearden
Congrats on your new build. You will enjoy the heated floor so much. I have heated floors in both shop and home. The shop was done first to try it out as no-one was doing it around here....
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Forum: Solar Heating
01-26-13, 09:25 AM
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Replies: 8
Views: 471
Ideas for net zero home
Blue bomber man
Welcome to the site.
There are many good ideas made here. Alot of them on the cheap. Taking an old humidifier and turning it into a very efficient heat pump water heater. Making...
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Forum: Wind Power
12-12-12, 06:34 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 459
Wind turbine for hydraulic or air pump
Both have been done to death. This has been such a problem with wind turbines some tinkerer's investing so much time and effort without studying the true dynamics of wind/power production. Then to...
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
11-01-12, 06:09 PM
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Replies: 16
Views: 686
Geo thermal heated garage Master Plan
The Master Plan wrote:
This last year just running the loop with nothing hooked to it the high was 58F the low was 38F. I am going to monitor it again this year.
Just from practical experience...
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Forum: Solar Heating
10-23-12, 11:50 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 548
The cost of copper is not cheap but its...
The cost of copper is not cheap but its coeffeicient of heat conduction is more than twice than that of aluminum. I haven't experimented with the two conductors (fins)side by side to gather any...
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Forum: Solar Heating
10-11-12, 10:15 AM
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Replies: 14
Views: 548
Well I'm lead to beleive that any increase in...
Well I'm lead to beleive that any increase in value is more in granite counter-tops stainless appliances, fancy bathrooms and of late, media rooms for the expansive flat screen. If your wired to be a...
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Forum: Solar Power
09-30-12, 06:26 PM
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Replies: 9
Views: 471
If you might have been following Xringers posts...
If you might have been following Xringers posts on his operating an A7 heat-pump hot water heater which he was operating with solar PV panels. It is truly amazing this time in our lives that these...
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Forum: Solar Heating
09-17-12, 11:30 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,221
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Forum: Solar Heating
09-16-12, 10:07 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,221
One last tip I had used muriatic acid to clean...
One last tip I had used muriatic acid to clean the glass. The low iron glass I had received was used and had a film on it that window cleaner wouldn`t touch. The muriatic (hydrochloric acid) work...
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Forum: Solar Heating
09-16-12, 10:03 AM
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Replies: 19
Views: 1,221
I had simply used some copper end caps for...
I had simply used some copper end caps for testing and silver soldered in a tire stem removed and cleaned up from an old steel rim. The pressure guage was on the other cap with a brass cap silver...
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
08-26-12, 09:50 PM
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Replies: 1,493
Views: 449,484
Lyndenjn Wrote:
Short of me reading all 1300...
Lyndenjn Wrote:
Short of me reading all 1300 posts, is there a post that details how someone may have taken a used whole house size A/C unit and converted it to a water to air furnace and A/C...
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Forum: Renovations & New Construction
06-10-12, 03:52 AM
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Replies: 15
Views: 780
Curiosity of the air exchange number
Looking at this thread prompted me to find out what interm number of air exchange our improvments made in our home. The blower door tests conducted before and near the completed improvements had been...
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Forum: Solar Heating
04-25-12, 11:05 PM
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Replies: 3
Views: 702
Solar space heating in Canada
I had recieved some requests from some fellow eco-renovators for some more details of our solar install with some pictures. If it may help any others who are thinking of solar space heating we have...
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Forum: The Billiards Room
04-08-12, 02:42 PM
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Replies: 40
Views: 1,278
Idiocies of governments
We may wax on about energy programmes that are faulted. About what the government should support and don't. Money directed to fossil energy production instead of renewables. Who's paying to clean-up...
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
04-05-12, 12:08 PM
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Replies: 49
Views: 4,242
Turning the oil burning dinosaur to ASHW
Xringer
Great project. I'm now old enough to remember how cutting edge and economic a combination oil/wood furnace was. I remember cutting splitting stacking drying stacking again wood for the...
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
01-16-12, 09:19 PM
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Replies: 1,493
Views: 449,484
Up-date on homemade GSHP
We returned from holidays and I reloaded the GSHP with water for the ground loop, in-floor and air handler. While away I didn't want to let anything freeze if the shop got too cold. I will change to...
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
11-13-11, 08:30 PM
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Replies: 1,493
Views: 449,484
Photos that wouldn't fit
The circuit drawing of the refrigerant flow counter current to the water/glycol flow (see previous post). In this the blue is the refrigerant and the magenta is the water/glycol. If you switch the...
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
11-13-11, 08:12 PM
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Replies: 1,493
Views: 449,484
The last couple details before installation
Basically the GSHP is finished. I ran out of fasteners and energy. A hand full of stainless fasteners and a hole for the electrical fittings. Oh yes install a access ring in the top to switch the 4...
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
11-11-11, 02:47 AM
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Replies: 1,493
Views: 449,484
AC Hacker wrote:
It would be helpful if we...
AC Hacker wrote:
It would be helpful if we also knew:
what the BTU rating of your compressor was?
what is the water flow rate in each loop?
how long the copper/PVC HX was?
what was the temp...
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Forum: Other Improvements
10-07-11, 05:19 AM
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Replies: 40
Views: 3,203
We had built a new house in 1998 and had...
We had built a new house in 1998 and had installed in-floor (concrete slab) heat fuel by a oil fired hot water tank. Very very comfortable. Our winters here in the Ontario countryside can be cold and...
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Forum: The Billiards Room
09-24-11, 05:51 AM
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Replies: 13
Views: 945
The begining of heating season
Oh yes the nights here in Ontario Canada are starting to become fresh. Lows of 10 Deg C (50 Deg F) We have began to warm the floor. The heat comes from the six hot water solar panels on the extrerior...
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
07-09-11, 10:56 AM
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Replies: 1,493
Views: 449,484
Heated towel bar
Yes I had made one using 3/4...
Heated towel bar
Yes I had made one using 3/4 stainless polished tube. Tube bender and silver solder. polished the joints to look factory made. A lot of work. One should feel their wallet from time...
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
06-23-11, 04:13 AM
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Replies: 1,493
Views: 449,484
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
04-17-11, 09:51 AM
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Replies: 1,493
Views: 449,484
Low temp heating
The methods we utilize for the space heating is extremly important. In our home in Canada burrr I had attempted to heat a room over a garage. The garage has in-floor concrete heating but being its...
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