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Old 12-22-16, 05:37 PM   #761
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Looks like a great job done.

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Old 12-23-16, 05:58 PM   #762
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The natural gas line is installed and pressure tested. I added the tracer wire and I installed a cat 5 network wire in conduit. I started to cover the trench but I will get my boys to finish it tomorrow.





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Old 12-26-16, 08:14 AM   #763
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My boys covered up the trenches for me. The power wiring is done to the greenhouse I now need to run it into the greenhouse. It is much closer to being completely done.



Finally enough lettuce for lunch.
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Old 12-27-16, 10:30 AM   #764
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I now have natural gas to my tankless water heater in my greenhouse. My circulation pump does not put enough pressure to turn on my tankless heater. the small Greenhouse tankless requires 40 psi static and 20 psi running. This same pump turns on my tankless in my house with no issues at all.
The new small tankless heaters will turn on with low pressure but not the one I bought last year.


I have a DC pump I was able to test with it and in 10 min I can raise the fish tank 1.5 degrees this is with the tankless set on its lowest NG flow. So I was pleased with this.
I did some research and two other people that made this setup work used Grundfos 3 speed circulator pump with an air separator.
So I have the pump flanges and air separator with reducers from ¾ NTP to PEX on order.

This pump has a 3 year warranty so that is good.



One of the other people that used this setup use two controllers just in case one failed it would not boil the fish I might do that later.

During the test the SS coil in the FT was doing a great job exchanging heat in this closed loop setup.
I was not sure I had enough water volume but so far it looks fine.
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Old 12-29-16, 09:30 PM   #765
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My new pump and air separator came in and are installed. The new pump had switch that changes the speed but it was broken I was able to test it out at low speed. It was working well I was able to heat up the fish water to 71F. I do think I will run the pump on med speed that way I can run the water through the heater a full speed.

But even at low speed the heater was sending 45C, 113F water through the loop. This is with the natural gas setting on the lowest setting.
I will be setting up my controller this weekend.
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Old 12-30-16, 10:04 PM   #766
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My stainless steel heat exchanger developed a small leak. This heat exchanger only lasted a little over a year this is to short time for the cost.

I decided to go a different way. I saw a couple heat exchanger made out of Pex and they had been using them over five years. I decided to make similar one out of 100’ Pex.




I need to mount the temp controller in something. Right now I have the circulator pump plugged into a timer on 15 minutes off 15 minutes then the temp controller is set to 72 degrees with a 1 degree swing. This small Tankless heater has a 20 minute safety shut off. The timer keeps it running by resting it every 15min.
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I have my web monitoring setup. It will monitor up to six zones plus power outage and it has a small battery backup. I have two float sensors I want to add to it one for pump flow and one for sump tank needing refilled.

This web600 has a built in web server and you can log any zone for any period time. You can setup up alarms that will text me and email me it has tons of options. It was designed for monitoring data centers or cold storage.

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How much did that controller set you back? Looks pretty interesting.
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The web600 is an older model so you can pick it up on eBay for $250-$149. This system uses an old email style SMTP server. The company host their own server and will setup up you an account if you call their helpdesk.


We picked two heads of lettuce and my wife made taco salad.



I finished the tankless heater controller box. This controller can control up to 10 amps. They make a 12v, 110v, 220v version.


It is very similar to this build.
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I should have been looking for one of those.. I just purchased a back-up for my old CAI.
Remote monitor control temp humidity I/O WebControl X10RF new hw rev 2.3.8 | eBay
It's a little better than the old model, but should be a drop-in replacement..

I want to use my really old CAI board (now in the spares box) to build a water leak & Radon warning system.
That was the 1st CIA I got, it had bad RH detection firmware.. Negative numbers..

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