In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
I am watching SIX. But I know there is nothing I can do about down there.
Don't beat yourself up over it.
There's literally nothing that any of us can do about it here either.
But like anything else, it's never nearly as bad as the sensationalist Legacy Media is making it out to be. I just went grocery shopping at the store I usually go to (where I'm the minority) and nobody gave me any shitty looks.
The Real World is usually MUCH different than anything you're going to find on the News.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
I'm not. Just upsetting to watch is all.
Nothing happening around me either. All the same today.
Can be.
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6:00AM by me and it's the same temp that it was last night before I went to sleep. 75 degrees. No fan necessary last night, very cool and dry and comfortable.
Only a high of 81 today. I probably wouldn't need to use it at all today.
I am going to do a little experiment though. It's only 70 out right now. I'm going back to sleep for a few, so I'm just putting it on now and I'll turn it off when I wake up. I want to see how well it does when it's not fighting the baking sun at the hottest point of the day when the sun isn't beating down on the roof. I'm guessing the cold will probably wake me up.
The attic is very dry and comfortable right now too. I really should get a few dollar store thermometers to know exactly what my temps are around my house. It's probably 10 degrees warmer up here, but it must be pretty dry because it doesn't feel hot when you're up there and I don't get sweaty at all. Not bad considering how hot it got up there early in the day before the A/C was even on and it reached over 90 yesterday. Up until just 5 minutes ago the door to the attic wasn't open at all either.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Just to give you an idea of our electric rates, if we were to keep a drafty old house of about your house's size comfortable by running a room A/C for seven hours straight, let's say (for the sake of argument) all day, every day, for a month .... one ton is approx 12,000 BTU .... calculating ... my guess is that we would be facing a bill somewhere north of $550 at the end of the month.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
6:00AM by me and it's the same temp that it was last night before I went to sleep. 75 degrees. No fan necessary last night, very cool and dry and comfortable.
Only a high of 81 today. I probably wouldn't need to use it at all today.
I am going to do a little experiment though. It's only 70 out right now. I'm going back to sleep for a few, so I'm just putting it on now and I'll turn it off when I wake up. I want to see how well it does when it's not fighting the baking sun at the hottest point of the day when the sun isn't beating down on the roof. I'm guessing the cold will probably wake me up.
The attic is very dry and comfortable right now too. I really should get a few dollar store thermometers to know exactly what my temps are around my house. It's probably 10 degrees warmer up here, but it must be pretty dry because it doesn't feel hot when you're up there and I don't get sweaty at all. Not bad considering how hot it got up there early in the day before the A/C was even on and it reached over 90 yesterday. Up until just 5 minutes ago the door to the attic wasn't open at all either.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
What they have here is TOU (Time of use) charges, where they charge you more for "peak" usage hours (between 2Pm and 6PM IIRC) and the maximum charge is almost $0.30/KWH.
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Out and about in a bit. This thing is behaving a bit better. The AVAST came up with a new update and seems to have settled this down. Will know better later.
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We don't have any peak hour charges here. The closest thing we have is a discount on our power bill if we let them come out and install some sort of limiter on our house that will regulate the A/C during the summer (I don't have one).
I did just check two bills from this year and they were both under $0.14/kwh. (I think it was .136 and .139).
I didn't believe the energyguide tag that came with the machine claiming $96 per year estimated energy cost and assumed it would be higher. But I might have to figure out exactly HOW much higher, so I can better understand what my parameters are when figuring out the optimal way to use this thing.
Yesterday was a test, so I won't beat myself up for that one. It was good data that I've recorded. And now I know that when it gets unbearably hot this single unit seems up to the job of making the house comfortable, and on those days I'm not really going to care all that much. They don't usually come very often around here.
It was also too cold for me as well. It didn't need to be on that long, or at least that much time in a single block, despite the temp outside. 75 degrees is a lot colder when your house isn't so humid it's about to start raining inside.
So... my tag says this "Estimated energy cost based on a national average electricty cost of 13 cents per kwh and a seasonal use of 8 hours a day over a 3 month period.
Well... That right there is probably bullshit. I bet they mean having the thing turned powered up for 8 hours a day, but in the ECO mode and only cooling one room, so it's not actually "ON" very long at all. Otherwise, they're telling me that I spent less than a buck yesterday and I know that ain't right.
Hmmmm....
How can this be?
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084WQ8WYH?tag=rocky009-20&linkCode=osi&
amp;th=1&psc=1&keywords=12000%20Btu%20Window%20Air%20Conditioner
Both a review website and the Amazon listing say it runs 992 watts. (I checked all the documentation and it says nothing at all about wattage).
But a BTU calculator site says that 12,000BTU is 3.5168528333 KWH.
I think they've got to be calculating for however long it shuts down on average when used within specs to get that 992 watts. Because 30 (days) x 3 (months) x 8 (hours) x (.13) cents = $93.6.
I just used 7 hours full boar, and assuming the calculator was right that's 3.52KWH x .14 (cents) x 7 (hours) = $3.44
Roughly $1 every two hours to run it.
Still though... Not too bad. I've spent $4 on worse things. Even if we have a month from hell and I did that every single day, that's only $120 additional bucks on the bill for the month.
I did run it for about an hour this morning with the attic door open to get the humidity and some of that residual heat out, and it's quite comfortable up there now. It's actually more comfortable up there than it is in the rest of my house since I prefer it warmer as long as it's dry... which it is.
High of 81 today, cloudy and rain, and I don't imagine I'm even going to be turning it on at all. I still don't feel any desire to turn on a box fan anywhere in the house.
Accuweather is only showing 2 or 3 days this month where it's supposed to get close to 90, and no more days in the 90s... for whatever that's worth a whole month out.
I can probably get by just fine running that thing an hour or two per day on average for the rest of June.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Hehe... nice.
I just noticed on that Amazon listing that it's selling for $100 more than I bought it for a few weeks back. 
That's 24 more days of running it like I did yesterday already paid for right there. 
Plus it's on a new card that I'm only about $300 away from getting a $200 statement credit. My A/C is basically free this summer.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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That's great Jack.
I bought a fan over a month ago but so far I haven't been able to use it. Heading for more rain but at least the flood watches have stopped for the Interior.
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Quote:Your accounting is laughable.
Hehe... nice.
I just noticed on that Amazon listing that it's selling for $100 more than I bought it for a few weeks back.
That's 24 more days of running it like I did yesterday already paid for right there.
Plus it's on a new card that I'm only about $300 away from getting a $200 statement credit. My A/C is basically free this summer.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Your accounting is laughable.
Originally posted by 1KIKI:Quote:
Hehe... nice.
I just noticed on that Amazon listing that it's selling for $100 more than I bought it for a few weeks back.
That's 24 more days of running it like I did yesterday already paid for right there.
Plus it's on a new card that I'm only about $300 away from getting a $200 statement credit. My A/C is basically free this summer.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
Do tell?
12,000BTU hrs = 3.52KW
3.52KWH x .14 (cents) x 7 (hours) = $3.44
Less than $4 per day, times 25 days is $100. An additional $200 is an additional 50 days.
Yesterday I ran it 7 hours to get less than $4 in charges.
Today I ran it one hour.
Next week it will be in the 70's and I won't use it at all.
Free A/C this summer for me.
Prove me wrong.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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