my wife got me the best Christmas present ever last year, a Logitec Harmony remote. you program it thru your PC. enter your model number of each device in the program, it retrieves the codes and dumps them to your remote. you even tell it what devices to turn on for what activity. it is truly the only remote i have ever seen that does all functions of the originals. i included a link below. mine took the place of 12 remotes. i even have read of people using them to control lighting and gas fireplaces, though i don't. the only drawback is that you must be connected to the internet to program it, and i only have dial up at home so it can sometimes take a while. Here is a link that might be useful: pricey but worth it!

lots of reasons. some you can solve by lateral moves, others not so much. so think of this. you work at pizza hut. a customer comes in and wants to eat there, but brings their own pizza. offers to pay you to cook it..but minimal payment for use of your tools expertiese ect. sounds crazy doesn't it. but to the pizza hut worker/mgr..it is insulting, cheap and not something they would be willing to do. so how to get them to do it...overpay them. where is your profit from what you saved online now? and hopefully, before they slid your pizza into their pizza oven..the didn't spit on it. why...cause its human nature. think about some wisea$$ comming to your job and expecting you do do whatever you do..for lesser cost, cause they got a deal. people want to save money..we get it. and online prices look so much better than actually paying for the things you don't see when you purchase your equipment from hvac installer. we have experience, insurances, support if things go wrong. even then for you online shopper... who warranties the equipment? sure you can go online & warrenty with mfg but that leads to second question...who services the unit? the guy you hired to install it? see...when you 'think' you know more than the company you hire..it leads to some very human responses. hvac company will charge you a premium price to install equipment you purchase from someone else. they will hesitate to do the work..then as things go wrong..you'll pay over and over for undercutting them in the first place. so..think it would be simpler to hire one company to do the discounted profit install and another to do any work later? ahhh in a perfect to you world. we talk to each other..and in my area we all know who will jack us, pick apart every move we make..and who has the faith in us to just let us do our jobs. we charge them accordingly. ever wonder why one bid is $xx higher than the other one..your personality tips us off. so we know going in..that it will take longer than usual due to interference. so pita charge is added. we call it different things, but it is the cost of doing business with someone questioning every move due to some half baked idea that they know more than us. sure you can hire some hack..save a few more bucks..but we make really good money going back and straightening out these jobs. really good money. what you save upfront...you pay in the long run times 2 or 3 times more. this company who agrees to do work on the side is stealing from the company owner by doing work on the side. want to hire a crook to do your install? think of what they risk by doing this..losing their job..and having a hard time in the hvac community cause now every owner knows they can't trust them.. hey but you got a deal! good techs, are paid well by their employers and would NEVER do this. a company that agrees to do an install of online equipment..is either the low ball guy who does it fast bad & cheap..or you lucked into a good company going through a slow time who needs the work. the latter being about as common as wings on a pig. install is as important as equipment. you'll read us commenting upon that over and over. good equipment & bad install..you get crap. problems over and over. I'm in the trades. While I don't do hvac, I am licensed and have experience. Even went to school for it. I go to heat pump association meetings & know all the players in my area.and how they all gossip like a bunch of teenagers. so last summer...I was ready for my central install. ran all my duct, inside conditioned space, built fur downs for duct. converted my linen closet into heating closet. platform installed & sealed, supply plenum ready to be installed. Return sealed & filter rack installed. I had heating system(ahu) delivered & we sat it in place, did all the electrical. did electrical & pad for condensing unit. ran copper lines. ran wire for tstat and had tstat installed. condenser delivered. because I can buy from my local supply house, the first company I called to do the start up was realate to supply house manager. (and start up was ONLY to braise the copper lines & check refrig charge..sub cool & super heat) first cost quoted to me for this hour and a half job $1000. break down that cost for two guys. next price..$1050 getting the picture yet? and keep in mind this was just for using torch, gauges & maybe a little 410. so I did it myself. took me an hour. in the rain. borrowed torches & tank of 410, used my own gages. paid my friend a couple of hundred for use of torches & the lb of freon I didn't use. but..see..I know what I'm doing. you..you really don't have a clue. folks will always buy online, but if you check back with them..or read posts later from them...then you hear the issues. we hear them all the time. but..do what you will..its a free country. I'm not losing work on this...just giving you the benefit of my experience with this. best of luck

A waterfall pump is designed to move a large voulme of water with little resistance (low head). A pool pump moves low to medium amounts of water against a high head. However, with that said, I use a Pentair 2HP Whisperflow (high flow, medium head) for my waterfalls and I have not had any signs of problems. I have two 36" shear descents and a fountain which require around 90-100gpm.

I'm hoping to get up there this afternoon to get the model, and look at the control unit. This is a 1967 house. Oddly, it was built in Las Vegas without AC--we replaced the original furnace in 2009, and found a add-on AC unit bolted on, and a rafter cut to fit it. The ducts were not upgraded from 18" to 24". (and the incompetent of the installation of the replacement work is its own storyi, featuring the combination of a separate duct to each bedroom from the plenum, compounded by leaving the duct to the front half of the house turned sideways and blocked by the installation [put a bunch of those yellow guys screaming in horror here]). Anyway, what has led to me wondering about this is the apparent failure of the control module (?) on the attic unit. We had been blaming the thermostat, but after replacing, further investigation found that shorting R to G will sometimes turn the fan on, and sometimes not. The new thermostat turns on the burner, but usually not the fan (it did once). The fan has also refused to shut off entirely three times. Pulling the thermostat didn't do it; I had to kill the breaker. This is what led to my interest in B: do I really have four used wires, or five. If blue was only attached to B to not be loose, I can use it for C on a replacement thermostat. (for that matter, why do they use C rather than just drawing from R, at least on units that don't have a separate Rc? mm, another note: the reason that this was such a sudden discovery is that it had been a while since we used the AC--we have a large, central swamp cooler with a 1 HP motor. Since using a panel to change the flow so that it didn't all go into the family room, it's meen enough for most of a desert summer. We actually got as high as 117F while only 82 in the house on a 2% humidity day. (We switch to AC once it hits 83) thanks hawk