Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
10-03-09, 03:49 PM
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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...
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
10-03-09, 09:40 AM
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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...
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
07-21-09, 11:27 PM
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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...
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
07-18-09, 07:09 PM
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
07-15-09, 09:18 PM
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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...
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
07-03-09, 10:52 PM
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
06-10-09, 01:56 AM
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
06-09-09, 12:02 AM
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
06-06-09, 12:38 AM
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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...
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
06-03-09, 01:34 AM
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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...
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
06-03-09, 12:51 AM
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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...
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
06-03-09, 12:37 AM
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
06-03-09, 12:09 AM
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
06-02-09, 07:51 AM
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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...
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
04-22-09, 11:47 AM
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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...
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
04-22-09, 11:12 AM
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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...
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
04-21-09, 06:03 PM
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Forum: Geothermal & Heat Pumps
04-21-09, 11:14 AM
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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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