Mini Split install in a small bedroom 137.5 Sq FT

[AC_Hacker]

Originally Posted by jeff5may

I don't care who you are, that was funny right there.

I spent part of my growing up in the South... I earned the right to say weird stuff.

-AC

[pinballlooking]

I am not going the window AC route. I you don’t see too many cheap AC that have heat. They are too noisy and use too much energy.
Yes a Mini split might be over kill and I will not get a payback I am getting for the other mini split installs.

The best way is probably is to use my natural gas to heat at night when it is real cold like I did last year.

I will have power to cover these new mini splits. That extra power will either go to the power company for free or I may get paid wholesale for it (.03-.035 cents).

I would like to get to netzero and the new mini splits would put me that much closer to netzero.

Lets just keep it to advice and not so personal thanks.
Mark

[where2]

Originally Posted by AC_Hacker

Why not just get a cheap-o window air conditioner for each room?

I thought he wanted heat in addition to cooling, so unless we're spinning the A/C around and hanging the noisy working side inside for winter, your $100 cheapie isn't going to provide much heat. I thought someone also determined that typical window shaker A/C units really didn't provide much heating when temps got down below 45°-50°, because the cold side kept icing up.

[AC_Hacker]

Originally Posted by where2

I thought he wanted heat in addition to cooling...

Oh yeah, sorry about the heating part...

Well, have you ever thought of fuel cells? They are astoundingly efficient and silent, and under normal circumstances, pose no fire hazard.

Even better would be an eco-bio type fuel cell. What I am thinking of would be to harness the radiant heat potential of an exothermic living organism, something like a gerbil, or more properly, several gerbils all functioning together in thermal harmony.

I just checked out THIS source, and it seems that a human can give off about 100 watts at rest. So I think that a gerbil would have a significantly higher metabolic rate per pound of body weight, only gerbils don't weigh so much... so I think that it is conceivable that a gerbil could give off maybe 1/2 watt of body heat when they're at rest.

Therefore, if you needed maybe 800 watts of heat to keep the small bedroom warm, it looks like you might need 1600 gerbils to do the trick.

But if you thought that, you'd be wrong!

Because gerbils automatically self-regulate their metabolic rate when they get cold, just like us, they start to shiver, which will generate more heat, and will silently keep those little bed rooms at a comfortable evening temperature.

I just can't think of anything that would bring more peace of mind to you, and comfort to your children, than 1200 gerbils quietly shivering in their cages, on a cold winter's night.

-AC

[pinballlooking]

-AC
Just go back to your other post and stop posting in my thread. You have not been helpful and just plain rude. One thing I really liked about this forum was it was a very friendly place to come share you projects. Help others do projects they would not normally be able to do on their own.

I am not sure why you have an issue with me maybe because I generate all my own power and have extra power to run the new equipment for no extra cost at all.

Whatever the reason is I don’t really care. Just go back to your own thread and stay away from mine.

[jeff5may]

Good luck with that. Hope you have fun whatever you put in.

[pinballlooking]

Thanks there was some helpful advice. I still have not decided what I am going to do. But I don't need to rush into it. Maybe I will wait for a sale.

I ended up installing my two MS in the small bedrooms. They have worked out very well we are very happy with them. The installs are posted it this post.
http://ecorenovator.org/forum/geothe...nstall-17.html