Be interesting to see how this work. HVAC guys put one in my house as a temp fix. Didn't do much good. I don't see how a single hose can work.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of Dan > Penoff via Mercedes > Sent: Saturday, July 04, 2020 5:24 PM > To: Mercedes List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> > Cc: Dan Penoff <d...@penoff.com> > Subject: [MBZ] OT - Mini Split and More > > So my HVAC engineer neighbor was over the other night and I was asking him > about his opinion on a mini-split in the garage… > > His take? Buy a portable 12,000 BTU unit and use that, forget about a mini- > split. > > I bought one at Lowe’s today. I’m going to try it out in the morning tomorrow. > It should be a pretty wicked test, as we’ve been having 95+ degree days of > late > with heat indexes approaching 100. This can also act as a backup for the house > in the event that the house AC pukes for whatever reason - we can use it to > cool a couple of rooms in an emergency. > > I’ve got to do distributor caps, rotors and insulators on the 420E, so I’ll > pull it in > early, shut the door and fire this thing up and see how it does. Not sure how > I’m going to vent it at present, but that’s something I can work out. > > He also suggested that I insulate the garage doors, too. > > More as I know it. > > I also bought my hybrid electric water heater. I was planning on doing this in > August, since I just dropped $6k last week on a new AC system for the house, > which is working quite well, I would add. While I was wandering the aisles of > Lowe’s I went by the water heaters to see if they still had any of the one I > wanted. They did, and it was marked down $300 from the regular $1299. > Bought the last one they had and let them carry the paper for 18 months, too. > > So maybe next weekend I’ll have the resident plumber install the new water > heater. I already had him survey the existing setup to determine what he’ll > need to do the job, so that’s done. Another significant decrease in energy > consumption, *and* some cooling for the garage as well. > > -D > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
