Or you can buy your own vaccuum pump, around here buying all of the equipment
needed was a fraction of the cost of hiring someone to install it.
As for whether or not it's legal for individuals install freon, it depens on
where you live.
Arizona has a long history of thumbing it's nose and
On Sat Dec 04 16:27:53 PST 2021 ev@lists.evdl.org said:
>To make this on-topic, I've wondered whether a mini-split heat pump could be
>adapted for an EV conversion. They're usually 240v so their inverters might
>be able to accept input from some of the higher voltage EV batteries. I've
>heard of
On 4 Dec 2021 at 18:03, Robert Bruninga via EV wrote:
> But it would seem that th length of the lines will make a difference
> in the degree of charging.
I'm not an expert, but when I looked into splits for my home about 8 years
ago, I read that the charge did indeed have to be adjusted for
But it would seem that th length of the lines will make a difference
in the degree of charging.
Maybe they have a huge reservoir?
I'd think the mmain unit does not contain any more piping inside than
the lines outside
so there is a lof of difference depending on how long the lines are?
Bob
On
We have a ventless clothes dryer. We run a portable fan to blow the hot air
into the house in winter. Lawrence Rhodes
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Indeed, efficiency is the key.
That is why I was not too worried about using the existing gas
connection for heating purposes, but switching to heatpump appliances
(which *move* easily 4x the amount of heat they consume) makes them an
easy winner in terms of efficiency.
As for using gas for
The problem I have with using electricity for heat is that as an entire
system, it is less efficient unless your electricity usage is 100% covered
by solar panels. However, heat pumps may be an exception to this - it
probably depends on where you live. I am not entirely sure.
For example, say
John,
My experience too that most experts don't like small/repair jobs
(unless it is on their own systems).
Luckily I have a good friend who owns a small HVAC business, so we
made the deal of me and my son doing all the grunt work, saving him a
lot of time that he does not have as he is good and
On Fri Dec 03 16:09:16 PST 2021 ev@lists.evdl.org said:
>The new outdoor unit that I installed just required the unit to be
>pumped to vacuum and checked for maintaining vacuum, which tells you 2
>things: no leaks and no foreign materials that are outgassing/boiling
>in the lines. Then it is just
The new outdoor unit that I installed just required the unit to be
pumped to vacuum and checked for maintaining vacuum, which tells you 2
things: no leaks and no foreign materials that are outgassing/boiling
in the lines. Then it is just a matter of opening the built-in
reservoir to release the
On Fri Dec 03 13:59:11 PST 2021 bruni...@usna.edu said:
>How do you do the freon by DIY?
>On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 11:04 AM John Lussmyer via EV wrote:
>> Or, if you want one that just works both ways automatically, just buy one of
>> the Mini-Split heatpump systems off Amazon and install it
The units are pre charged for a certain amount of pipe length. You still need
to evacuate the pipes before opening up the system so you need an HVAC person .
-Steve
> On Dec 3, 2021, at 7:00 PM, EV List Lackey via EV wrote:
>
> On 3 Dec 2021 at 16:59, Robert Bruninga via EV wrote:
>
>> How
On 3 Dec 2021 at 16:59, Robert Bruninga via EV wrote:
> How do you do the freon by DIY?
>From what I've read, illegally.
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How do you do the freon by DIY?
Bob
On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 11:04 AM John Lussmyer via EV wrote:
>
> On Fri Dec 03 07:56:13 PST 2021 ev@lists.evdl.org said:
> >BEST DEAL IS FINDING a dual hose or single hose portable AC and pui tting it
> >outside to blow inside. Or put itin the basement or
On 2 Dec 2021 at 22:47, Cor van de Water via EV wrote:
> We have a gas clothes dryer as that freed up the 30A circuit to power
> a Level 2 charging station (see, this post is still on-topic) also
> because our house connection is only 100A, so we need to be efficient
> with our electricity.
On Fri Dec 03 07:56:13 PST 2021 ev@lists.evdl.org said:
>BEST DEAL IS FINDING a dual hose or single hose portable AC and pui tting it
>outside to blow inside. Or put itin the basement or unused (OK to be cold)
>room
>and let the hot side hose blow up into your occupied space.
Or, if you want
Using a heat pump instead of space heaters would save THREE times in cost.
Several DIY ways to do it. A Heatpump and an old AC unit are the same
thing, just
depends on which way you put it in the window!
I pickup used AC units along the street and there is never anything wrong with
the
"we still stay within Baseline consumption,
which means less than about 10kWh a day."I use 10kWh to drive 21 miles to work
each day one way with my 2014 Chevy Volt, another 10kWh to drive home!
On Friday, December 3, 2021, 02:10:06 AM EST, Lawrence Rhodes via EV
wrote:
We have been
We have been converting over a decade. Solar panels about 15 years ago. Cost
too much and too small. However it makes it big difference when you can do a
lot of chores using 120vac appliances. We replaced the 1935 electric water
heater with a new one in 2015. We bought a used Bosch ventless
I see it is dedicated to San Francisco area.
Home electrification is going to happen.
I have lived in an apartment that did not have a gas connection.
In our current home, I replaced the dying central gas heater and
unrepairable airco with a modern Panasonic 5-zone heatpump, so we
still have an
https://nextdoor.com/g/cd7f0gycj/ People here discuss issues relating to 100%
electric homes. So far so good for us. $450 total energy cost last year.
Transportation and house. Lawrence Rhodes
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