Difference in temperature (Shed vs Outdoors)
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Comments (7)The temperature of the plant in the sun can be higher or lower than air temperature. Being in a dry climate I'm sure you appreciate the cooling benefits of evaporative cooling. Water is evaporating from the leaves and cooling them. One way to measure the water status of plants is by measuring the leaf temperature with an infrared thermometer. A high leaf temperature relative to air temperature indicates a plant that is water stressed. The 85-86F for tomatoes is air temperature not the temperature of something, like your thermometer, directly exposed to the sun....See MorePatio Furniture-Quality difference between Target vs. High end
Comments (56)I found this thread because I just got off the phone with my wife who informed me that replacement slings for our set of six Telescope chairs will be $780.00! That is a very tough pill to swallow, and like many here we weighed this heavily against just getting a cheaper set from HD, Costco, or any number of stores. Our set is about 10 years old to date (purchased summer of 2010) and the aluminum frames, table, and umbrella have held up extremely well (we do store them inside for winter though). Ultimately, I decided to stick with these and pay the exorbitant price for a few reasons: - The rest of the set is extremely high quality. I feel good each year when I pull it out of storage - heavy duty powder coated aluminum construction that has lasted well and still looks 9/10 after a spring wipe-down. - It does bother me how much importation has changed - pushing us toward a throw-away-away-and-buy-another culture. I do feel like we enjoy additional quality on these American made items (not always the case). - Less and less stuff is American made any more. As an engineer and a maker, I miss the days when we made most of the best stuff here. This set still exemplifies that quality. It's a little thing, but something I rarely get to enjoy these days. - After 10 years, with very little degradation (other than the fabric slings), I know what to expect from this set, and feel confident that they will last another 10 years easily with new fabric. The convenience of going 10-12 years between having to think about this, or take a gamble on something potentially less durable is worth something to me. Surely, I'll be feeling the sting of this bill in about a month (so good thing I'm writing this now!), but I thought I'd share what tipped us to reinvesting in this very expensive set. Pic when new April 2010:...See MoreHeatpump COP vs outdoor temperature curves?
Comments (5)Hi. Thanks for the responses. Yeah, I was aware of the two cutoff temperatures from programming my thermostat. In fact, that's what started me down this path: if I'm looking to minimize heating costs, then I need to configure the thermostats to choose the fuel source that offers the lowest cost-per-BTU at a given outdoor ambient temperature. Over the weekend, I was able to find a document from Carrier that, among other things, contained measurements from various HP-coil-furnace combinations at the standard 47F and 17F temperature points. While my particular furnace wasn't listed, I can glean a ballpark estimate for my configuration: At 47F, my HP's COP is probably somewhere between 3.6 and 3.7. At 17F, the COP drops to somewhere around 2.5. So given the energy prices and the quick COP calculations made in the first post, my HPs appear to be cheaper than gas at 47F. As the outdoor temperature decreases, the COP drops. At some temperature, the COP drops below 3.57 and my 80% gas furnaces become cheaper per BTU. It's not immediately clear how COP behaves with temperature but assuming it drops linearly, the break-even temperature would appear to be between 43F and 45F. So from a purely economic point of view, it seems the thermostats should be configured so that only gas heat is used below 45F regardless of whether the HPs can provide usable heat down to 30F or 25F......See MoreGrow Lights vs Outdoor Greenhouse for indoor seeds
Comments (9)Now for my fourth year I am growing hosta seedlings in my basement. I started the first seeds the middle of November and have now 3x3 inch plants. I grow them under 24 hrs fluorescent lights on two shelves in the basement. I use 4ft common fluorescent lights like you can buy at big box stores, suspend them on chains 1 inch above domes of seed trays or plant leaves. I have the seedtrays and lights enclosed with 2 walls and old towels. The heat from fluorescent lights is enough to raise the temperature under plastic domes to close to 80 dgrs, in the area without domes to 71 dgrs in a 60 dgrs basement. This is enough for hostas, so I no longer use heat mats. I also use cardboard with aluminum foil taped on it standing around the hanging lights and plant trays to reflect any light back to the plants. So I have created grow chambers which I only open once a day to check, if I need to replenish water in the trays. Water contains half-strength Miraclegrow tomato fertilizer. A former neighbor was an engineering liason to a lighting manufacturer. He said that the benefits of special growing lights are minimal, so he himself used only basic fluorescent lights in growing seedlings. Here in upstate NY temperatures will be warm enough at the beginning of May to bring my seedlings outside. I will place them in shade and bring them into the garage should temperatures dip below 50 dgrs....See MoreRelated Professionals
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