lumberjack
Young man on the go
Well yeah, you’re up there by the polar bears, buying fuel for your vehicles, and presumably a single house smaller than 4100sq ft. 
Your thoughts on Air conditioning
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Nutball
TreeHouser
Are you running the AC 24/7, never a break? I sure hope you mean 7MWh or you are getting ripped off, but still, that's like a constant 40A @240v 24/7 if my math is right.
lumberjack
Young man on the go
Two houses, two electricl cars, hottest month of the year (so far)(.... it all adds up. The two car chargers can pull 80 amps combined. The care chargers pulled 1.35MWh over the past month.
7MWh/30 days... yeah 40 amps @ 240V 24/7.
5.65MWh/30 days= ~33 amps @ 240V... or 16.5amps per house, continuously.
7MWh/30 days... yeah 40 amps @ 240V 24/7.
5.65MWh/30 days= ~33 amps @ 240V... or 16.5amps per house, continuously.
FireFighterZero
Captain Zero!
That bill doesn't really seem that bad to me, I spend <$1k/year on all energy combined aside from gasoline, but I've seen high bills like that from other people online that don't have electric cars. Might not have been USA, but still.
BeerGeek
Tree Numbnutz
Loving it right now, as mother nature has us at 90 degrees and 40% humidity; YUCK!!!!!
Mellow
BCMA
There must be a storm nearby. Temp just plummeted from 92 to 79. But 82% humidity. I try to take a break about every hour or so to sit in the truck for a few minutes with the A/C blasting on me.
Burnham
Woods walker
All true, Carl. We don't heat or cool the house with electricity, aside from the ceiling fan in the living room and a stand fan in the bedroom...and neither of those see much use on an annual basis. It's only 1500 sq. feet.Well yeah, you’re up there by the polar bears, buying fuel for your vehicles, and presumably a single house smaller than 4100sq ft.
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This:
www.nytimes.com
Opinion | I Swore Off Air-Conditioning, and You Can, Too
The more time we can spend outside or inside without the air-conditioner blasting, the better prepared we’ll be — both to slow climate change and to adapt to it.
If not for the humidity, I could live here without ac. If my ac broke, I probably wouldn't pay to fix it, though I might consider buying a portable unit depending on how things went. Thermostat is usually set to 80° when I'm home, and since this thread was started, I bumped it up to 84° when I leave. I usually just leave it there, and it'll sometimes be 81°-82° when I look at it, and I may or may not drop it to 80° to get it to come on. I think It's only run 1-1.5 weeks total this year. That's not hours; just the length of time it /may/ have fired up at some point.
lumberjack
Young man on the go
I like AC so much I put a window unit in the little shop last year when we renovated it.
I bought generators so amongst other things I could run my house’s AC in a power outage.
We hit 100° here last week, allegedly. I didn’t struggle with it. Week before last I started turning my air down to 68° at night to sleep better.
If my AC (geothermal) died, I’d move the window unit from the shop to the house, or stay somewhere else until it was fixed.
I bought generators so amongst other things I could run my house’s AC in a power outage.
We hit 100° here last week, allegedly. I didn’t struggle with it. Week before last I started turning my air down to 68° at night to sleep better.
If my AC (geothermal) died, I’d move the window unit from the shop to the house, or stay somewhere else until it was fixed.
SeanKroll
Treehouser
Geothermal?
Nutball
TreeHouser
No window unit on the lift basket?
Need to find a way to duct AC through the boom on a bucket truck, and have it blow from all 4 sides of the bucket.
Need to find a way to duct AC through the boom on a bucket truck, and have it blow from all 4 sides of the bucket.
lumberjack
Young man on the go
Has ground loops to displace/harvest energy for cooling/heating the house more efficiently.
lumberjack
Young man on the go
I’ve thought about adding 12v radiator fans to have a breeze 😂
Cobleskill
Treehouser
I don't like walking in a store and having it feel freezing. Then when you walk outside if feels like you walked into a blast furnace.
Cobleskill
Treehouser
I also can't stand being in a car in the winter with the car roasting hot. You are dressed in your winter garb. Does it really have to be 80?
Back when malls were a thing, you could spend significant time walking inside. It was terrible in the winter. Heat was cranked way up, and my hands felt like they swelled up from the heat on top of wearing winter clothes. Miserable experience.
Kaveman
Treehouser
ARIZONA
Is further explanation required? Fine.
Northern Arizona. AC and woodstove. In this state, you'll burn all day, and freeze all night. I've seen 60° temp swings, from 92° down to 32°.
Ac is nice, but I've done without it for nearly a decade.
Ain't no heat like woodstove heat.
Is further explanation required? Fine.
Northern Arizona. AC and woodstove. In this state, you'll burn all day, and freeze all night. I've seen 60° temp swings, from 92° down to 32°.
Ac is nice, but I've done without it for nearly a decade.
Ain't no heat like woodstove heat.
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
87/117 now. AC is not an option. Other day my truck was left parked it the sun. It was like 160, 180 degrees or something inside. Every surface was burning hot. Didn’t really cool down in a 20 minute drive with the AC cranked. I will walk a block to park in the shade.
AC stays on probably more than half the year. Cool at night to sleep. During the day I wear nothing but shorts around the house to try to keep it warmer.
AC stays on probably more than half the year. Cool at night to sleep. During the day I wear nothing but shorts around the house to try to keep it warmer.
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
I’d rather be outside sweating in 100 than inside at 80 and just hot but not sweating like a nursing home
Nutball
TreeHouser
Mastermind would move.
davidwyby
Desert Beaver
Someday. Hard to move a big shop.
