terkio wrote: ↑Mon Nov 02, 2020 3:24 am
Good work.
Good exercise...
Do you sharpen your chains, yourself ?
I have a sharpening file and have done that before, but my small engine whisperer has a nice grinding wheel fixture where he can sharpen a chain in about 5 minutes for a couple dollars, not worth trying to do it old school. I can really feel the difference between the old chain and the new one.
Why don't you use all that wood to heat part of your house.
I have a fireplace but haven't used it this century. It generally pulls in cold outdoor air. The fireplace even has its own blower to circulate fireplace heated air. Maybe now with my improved blower system the fireplace would heat the entire house better, but that sounds like too much work.
Speaking of heat, over a year ago I upgraded my house to a serious heat pump (mitsubishi). My house was built originally with in-wall resistance heaters. Now every month my utility tells me that my energy consumption is 10-15% lower than energy efficient homes near me. That bill is supposed to shame (nudge) energy wasters to use less, but pretty much tells me.. "don't worry, you're good".
This winter will be even better than last winter. I installed a blower pulling air from my main room where the big heat pump is regulating the temperature, exhausting heated/cooled air into my bedroom closet. My back bedroom has a time of day thermostat to control baseboard heaters back there to manage overnight temperatures in winter. Now I have the blower motor fed from a fraction of the voltage going to the baseboard heaters.
My first 1kW baseboard heater could not hold temperature in the bedroom on the coldest nights by itself, so I upgraded to 1.5kW. Now with the big heat pump I don't even close the bedroom door at night. I wired the 1kW and 1.5kW heaters in series so now they only make 500W at full power. The smart time of day thermostat modulates the power using PWM to 5 levels. Now when the 500W heater is on, it also turns on the blower as needed to manage bedroom temp. I suspect the blower pulling warm air is doing most of the night time heating and only as needed.
Overnight temps are down in the low 40s outside and I don't hear the heat working at night, yet.
JR
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