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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps 10-03-09, 03:49 PM
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Posted By Hugh Jim Bissel
No, afraid not. I've been keeping up with the...

No, afraid not. I've been keeping up with the project via the update emails, but school's been keeping me busy.



It did, but through a longer time on the iron, not a higher temperature. We may...
Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps 10-03-09, 09:40 AM
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Posted By Hugh Jim Bissel
Looking awesome! Since you're running...

Looking awesome!



Since you're running your loops in series you wouldn't need more than a send and a return temperature which you could read at the inside unit. If your loops were in parallel...
Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps 07-21-09, 11:27 PM
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Posted By Hugh Jim Bissel
Guess I haven't lived in Texas long enough...

So thats where all that noise was coming from that kept me up last night!

You're quite right, I should have known better! I'm sure you've seen (or heard of) the bumper sticker "I wasn't born in...
Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps 07-18-09, 07:09 PM
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Posted By Hugh Jim Bissel
Working now and looking good, Thanks! :thumbup: ...

Working now and looking good, Thanks! :thumbup:

You're very blessed to be in a rock-free area; Hardly anybody has basements around here (DFW TX) because the rock layer is so close to the surface....
Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps 07-15-09, 09:18 PM
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Posted By Hugh Jim Bissel
Sweet, Looking good! When you backfilled were...

Sweet, Looking good! When you backfilled were you able to pack the dirt in any? Hopefully if you water the hole every so often it'll settle around the pipes tightly (besides, thats what you do when...
Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps 07-03-09, 10:52 PM
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Posted By Hugh Jim Bissel
I'm a father? This is the happiest moment of my...

I'm a father? This is the happiest moment of my life! I have a bouncing, baby.....heater?!? :confused:


Looking good! I haven't forgotten the class mp3's, but I've been out of town for the past...
Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps 06-10-09, 01:56 AM
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Posted By Hugh Jim Bissel
I wonder what would be the most efficient way of...

I wonder what would be the most efficient way of raising your loop temp if it threatens to freeze. The choices I could think of were: use the units defrost cycle, shutting off the ground source and...
Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps 06-09-09, 12:02 AM
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Posted By Hugh Jim Bissel
It depends on what it's measuring the temperature...

It depends on what it's measuring the temperature of once it's converted. If it's necessary to keep that temp sensor, it should be measuring water temp since air temp is removed from the equation. ...
Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps 06-06-09, 12:38 AM
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Posted By Hugh Jim Bissel
Their grout appears to be using cement as the...

Their grout appears to be using cement as the main binder. Ours was just water, sand, and bentonite. (gotta be the sodium bentonite that expands to 10 times or so the volume in water) We used 5 to 1...
Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps 06-03-09, 01:34 AM
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Posted By Hugh Jim Bissel
So we've got 230 boreholes. We divided them up...

So we've got 230 boreholes. We divided them up into 17 different zones, and each zone has 13 or 14 boreholes in it. Those wells are plumbed in parallel reverse return (first in, last out) and each...
Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps 06-03-09, 12:51 AM
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Posted By Hugh Jim Bissel
Chapter next...

So we've got holes in the ground with pipe sticking out of them at ground level. You can't have the pipes running on top of the soccer field, the poor soccer players have it bad enough running back...
Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps 06-03-09, 12:37 AM
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Posted By Hugh Jim Bissel
But I've gotten ahead of myself. That was well...

But I've gotten ahead of myself. That was well into the process. First came the drilling: 250' down....
Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps 06-03-09, 12:09 AM
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Posted By Hugh Jim Bissel
Where would I post such a monster? About a year...

Where would I post such a monster? About a year ago I recall I tried to compress around an hour of speech: even mono @ 30 or 40 kbps mp3, the smallest I could make it, the file was probably 15-20...
Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps 06-02-09, 07:51 AM
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Posted By Hugh Jim Bissel
I just had the opportunity to be in a Ground...

I just had the opportunity to be in a Ground Source Installers class (the engineer who oversaw our project was the teacher), and I was able to borrow the "Installation Guide" since it was the main...
Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps 04-22-09, 11:47 AM
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Posted By Hugh Jim Bissel
Caught me while I was typing:D We did...

Caught me while I was typing:D



We did the majority of our project in-house, and before I was hired the idea was tossed around of buying/renting a drilling rig, but they ended up having...
Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps 04-22-09, 11:12 AM
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Posted By Hugh Jim Bissel
So I've looked, and even though I saw that...

So I've looked, and even though I saw that booklet just a few weeks ago when looking for something else, now that I'm looking for it, it's nowhere to be found! I did find this website...
Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps 04-21-09, 06:03 PM
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Posted By Hugh Jim Bissel
I'll have to look when I get home to see what the...

I'll have to look when I get home to see what the recommended temp was, but it was in the 450-500 range. From issues we had with the socket iron it seemed the temperature could vary a good bit as...
Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps 04-21-09, 11:14 AM
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Posted By Hugh Jim Bissel
Very Cool (in more ways than one!)

I'm not a HVAC tech, nor do I play one on TV, but I just wanted to add my 2 (or 10) cents to the matter. Wanting to comment on this thread (and other ground-source heat/air threads) was what prompted...
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