Viking1066
Brigadier General
My niece offered to take my 17 yr old up to North Dakota. That is really nice of her. Her three daughters are all grown and have kids, so she's got the room.
What Cheered You Up Today? (12 Viewers)
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fubar57
General
Hope it works out for all, Jesse
Viking1066
Brigadier General
The DA said it sounds like a great idea. She going to come down today. It's a 12 hour drive.
Jadera
Airman 1st Class
Hope it all works out for you man!
Greg Boeser
1st Lieutenant
My youngest took the ASVAB today. 86th percentile. Tomorrow he goes for his physical.
Jadera
Airman 1st Class
Ay, hope he gets in!
The news this afternoon about the F/A-XX
Oliverlovesplanes
Airman 1st Class
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the Sr-71 coming back to life!
MiTasol
Major
US Navy selects Boeing to build next-generation F/A-XX fighter
Boeing has officially been selected to build the Navy’s sixth-generation carrier-based strike fighter, dubbed F/A-XX.
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MiTasol
Major
Thank you
Viking1066
Brigadier General
Well my 17 year old is off to North Dakota where she can get a fresh start. Hopefully she does what she needs to do 12 hours away from the old influences.
Lucky13
Forum Mascot
Off for a week....oh the possibilities! 
OK, I thought I had a handle on my heat pump but not so much. It was still cycling like some complete Goombah.
Then I dug deeper into documentation and found my way into the installer's menu!
YEEEHAW!!
page after page of things I dare not touch, and a few pages of things I touched all over.
I changed:
Minimum speed from 30 RPS to 24. That was huge.
It had a forced 50 RPS initial surge. trimmed that to 30
It had a 1RPS/second ramp up and down. Changed the down ramp to 4.
I moved the settings to force a test on it this morning and oh boy.
where before it bottomed out at ~3.4 Amps to the compressor, now it goes down to ~2.4 Amps.
That right there ended cycling.
Before:
It would start up and go to that 50RPS speed, overshoot and half the time it could not capture in time before it just cycled clear off. Goombah behavior.
Now it creeps up, still overshoots at 30RPS, but then that steeper down ramp I set lets it capture and stabilize. Now it overshoots, undershoots a bit, then crawls on up to stable over about 5 minutes time. Then with the new low bottom limit it just tracks.
So now the thing is all about the curve and the heat load.
I can tweak the curve until we are comfortable.
Top edge will be a heat breaker setting that will facilitate a clean cycle off.
I now suspect that we will have a ***** ton of excess power with net metering.
The bottom line is at a minimal load around 50 outside temperature, the system will heat ~2700 SF of framed floor in the top two floors, and
a 1500 SF concrete basement slab with
882 Watts
That includes the two pumps.
Pretty dang cheery if you asked me.
Then I dug deeper into documentation and found my way into the installer's menu!
YEEEHAW!!
page after page of things I dare not touch, and a few pages of things I touched all over.
I changed:
Minimum speed from 30 RPS to 24. That was huge.
It had a forced 50 RPS initial surge. trimmed that to 30
It had a 1RPS/second ramp up and down. Changed the down ramp to 4.
I moved the settings to force a test on it this morning and oh boy.
where before it bottomed out at ~3.4 Amps to the compressor, now it goes down to ~2.4 Amps.
That right there ended cycling.
Before:
It would start up and go to that 50RPS speed, overshoot and half the time it could not capture in time before it just cycled clear off. Goombah behavior.
Now it creeps up, still overshoots at 30RPS, but then that steeper down ramp I set lets it capture and stabilize. Now it overshoots, undershoots a bit, then crawls on up to stable over about 5 minutes time. Then with the new low bottom limit it just tracks.
So now the thing is all about the curve and the heat load.
I can tweak the curve until we are comfortable.
Top edge will be a heat breaker setting that will facilitate a clean cycle off.
I now suspect that we will have a ***** ton of excess power with net metering.
The bottom line is at a minimal load around 50 outside temperature, the system will heat ~2700 SF of framed floor in the top two floors, and
a 1500 SF concrete basement slab with
882 Watts
That includes the two pumps.
Pretty dang cheery if you asked me.
Viking1066
Brigadier General
Some I am feeling down last night and in comes my ten year to see what I am doing. She sees this and proceeds to read the first two pages with six to seven errors. She had no clue what it was about, but nevertheless she read it to me. It made my next two days. My little one is always surprising me.
MiTasol
Major
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Jadera
Airman 1st Class
Had my homecoming dance for the first time yesterday, we started a mosh pit and did a balcony jumping contest! Did you guys have hoco in the 50's?
hey now you young whippersnapper! we are not all children of the great war here!
my high point, I was going over some work with my hired guy and the 90 year old neighbor shows up asking for a favor. Her dishwasher had sprung a leak and we went up and diagnosed it. Turns out she has a mouse problem and they chewed the hose on it. She will get a new one and has already insisted on paying us.
It is a new neighborhood for us and she is our closest neighbor. I am fine with her asking. I turned and handed the money to my guy LOL.
It is a new neighborhood for us and she is our closest neighbor. I am fine with her asking. I turned and handed the money to my guy LOL.
