Electric Heat Pump - and turn off or turn down
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Turn Off The Water & Turn Up The Heat
Comments (10)OKgrassguy, it is a mixed blessing on the farm. For the most part just what the doctor ordered. After two full years of no rain and triple digit heat for 5-months a year, it is a big turn around. So far only a single 90 degree day in N TX this year PeopleÂs water wells are now pumping water again, my stock ponds and reservoirs (everyone else too) are finally full from yesterdays rains. Corn is the tallest and healthiest I have ever witnessed around here (usually burnt to a crisp by now), and everything is green. With corn prices so high from ethanol pressure, it is going to be a stellar year for corn farmers this year. On the flip side, I have quite a bit of sod production areas under water from time-to-time around the creek beds. However with the floods comes free top soil evenly distributed with no labor cost. Lots of delays in harvesting sod waiting for what can be harvested to dry out enough to get the equipment in. Fortunately I have sandy loam, so it only takes a day or two of dry weather to dry things out. I have lost several acres of sod from being drowned, but not a devastating loss. The rest is so productive it makes up for it and provides a seed crop to replant the drowned areas later. Landscaping biz (my SonÂs biz) is good, just a lot of down days. However irrigation side is non existent. Only real complaint is tomato and pepper plants are suffering. Their feet are too wet and not enough sun to put fruit on. If it dries up a bit with some sunshine they should recover if the heat doesnÂt jump above 100. Anyway glad the usual summer high pressure ridge moved out of here this year and now someone else has to deal with heat and drought that it brings....See MoreLake pump turning off
Comments (1)MD, Make sure you have water from the lake to the pump. That means that the suction line is completely full of water and the pump as well. If you can not completely fill the suction line then you have a bad foot valve. In case you did not realize this the foot valve is a one-way valve and it's purpose is to keep the suction line and pump full of water. You could also have fittings along the way that are not air tight and allowing air to enter the system. Fill the pump through the threaded access hole and see what happens to the water. You can run the pump with the access hole cover loosely on (not threaded down tight)and let some of the leaking air escape until the discharge line is running full, then screw down the access hole cover tight. You will eventually need to replace the foot valve and tighten all the leak points. Aloha...See MorePlease help....bubbles when I turn the pump off
Comments (9)Thanks, golfgeek! I re-read what I typed and I realize I misspoke - our pump doesn't drain water out until I open the lid. The action of just stopping the pump (i.e., for a timer cycle to conserve electricity) doesn't result in water draining from the pump or the pump losing its prime. I would think that it's normal for water to drain back through the system once the lid is off, because the seal has broken and the plumbing is not under any pressure at that time. I thought the water flows back into the pool/underground pipes, likely equalizing in the pipes at the level of the water in the pool. Similar to a P-trap. Is that crazy talk? Also, Melissa, I'm sorry for hijacking your thread. But now I'm all nervous about a leak! :) We did have a pool guy out to look for a leak several weeks ago while doing some other maintenance, because we were seeing a few air bubbles in the pump lid when it was running - a very few, but still, it was enough to check on. He ran the hose over all the fittings, didn't find anything obvious but ended up repiping some of the above-ground pipes but never really got ALL the bubbles to disappear, but they are very few and we're OK with it for now. Sidenote: he actually found a archeological artifact IN one of the PVC pipes. It was a rusty screwdriver... I suspect a different pool guy from last year left it in the pipe when he accidentally stepped on, broke, and subsequently re-piped a line back there when installing our freeze-guard timer. That guy appeared to be ... very chill, very relaxed, let's say. He might have tripped over his own flip-flop while fixing the pool. After his repair, I told him I could hear a loud "THOCK" noise each time the pump started to get primed and thought there was something wrong but he blamed it on water hammer since our newly fixed line was so water and air tight. Ha! Haven't heard "water hammer" since the screwdriver was removed....See MoreTurning heat down at night
Comments (11)Aside from water pipes getting too cold, if you keep the setting at 55 degrees or so as a minimum you shouldn't have to worry about pipes freezing, provided the pipes are properly insulated. An old model heat pump will not perform as well as a recent model. The technology has made vast improvements from older machines. So I agree with klem1 in the number of variables it would be impossible to come to any real conclusion. Also climate can dramatically change the parameters such as "a heat pump buried in snow" versus "a heat pump that is not" If you have the minimum setting of 55 to protect pipes and the comfort needs of the area are met then that's all that matters. Just realize to warm this area up, depending on the load (how cold it is) will take longer, than if your minimum setting is set at a higher temperature. As far as how much you save or how much you don't... You don't burn energy if something is off. With that said, given the pipe freezing issue how much you save would depend on how cold it gets and how much the heater runs. These are variables that vary... if you can stand the pun. ;-)...See Morejeffnette
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