Lava Rock

On 7/12/2020 at 9:15 AM, Ginx snewx said:

Good advice from Brian, definitely set it lower and run constantly. 58 degree air discharge is great. You will stay ahead if you do as Brian suggested. My floor unit has been stellar this year, house hasn’t been above 71. One bedroom window unit and one floor unit have kept the house at 70/71. We haven’t even used the lower floor wall unit in AC only dehumidifier. Despite earlier suppositions the floor unit isn’t loud and it’s efficient. My electric bill with the pool pump and AC only went up 33 dollars from June 8th to July 8th and I used 25% less electricity than last year. Last year I ran two floor units and 3 windows. Using fans on the ceiling and one floor unit I finally figured out how to cool my house at 1750 sq ft the most efficient. Helps being home all the time to figure it out. I even shut the floor unit off at night and just run one window unit and fans.

Spoke to the install guy and told him we can't get room temp less than 5F below outside air temp. This seems unacceptable, but he says it's not and his AC evap froze up yesterday at his house do to the high dews/temp. It was only 80F. Can't imagine our unit doing squat when it's 90F+/70. I think the issue is the high cathedral ceiling/loft area that obviously traps a lot of heat. The indoor unit is mounted ~9ft. Using the IR gun, the top of the unit was 77F while room temp at couch level was 75F. I had remote setting on 64F. There's no way our room will cool to that level, so the compressor will be constantly running right? The bedroom unit was set for 68F on remote and I woke up to the same temp on our room thermostat, so it seems clear to me the new unit is likely undersized and with such a large cubic vol of hot air, the new pump will not be able to do much for temp. Humidity OTOH was lowered to 60%, so that was good and achieves a more comfortable level, but for $4K, I'm pretty disappointed.

Leave it on all day. These units are designed to run at low speeds nonstop and will ramp up the fans and compressor as needed. The efficiencies of them at low speed are incredible. 
Keep in mind if you are using the remote the temperature setting is based off the return air sensor on the top of the unit. You may need to set it much lower on the remote as the air 8-10 ft up is significantly warmer. 
What Fujitsu model did you get? 

We finished here dead avg after the late season snow, 72.9"

It could be undersized but try leaving the unit on all day. Maybe turn it on early in the morning. If it was off and you turned it on in the afternoon during peak heat it probably won't be able to cool it quickly. The way they operate is they run nonstop but will run at a very low speed. On low speed my units will only use 150-200 watts. 
How much sun exposure do you have? That has a huge effect on your cooling load. I have a 12k unit in a similar size space that I just leave on and it has no issue keeping up. 

Yeah, I could never do the driveway with a snowblower. I have a lot of driveway and two loops as well. I have plowing lined up, same guy from down in Gorham who has been plowing it for years. Only issue is when he runs out of places to put the snow I need to pay a separate crew to come in with construction machinery to physically haul the snow away and make room around the house and garages. Apparently this happens sometimes and just this past winter it happened  
Snowblower is to clear the deck when needed and the walkways to the front door. 

Went to LL Bean today to grab a couple pair overpriced shorts. It was dead in there. All of Freeport was very quiet. For mid July, it was abnormal

Tor warning over Sebago/Harrison/Otisfield rotation in that cell.

Tstorms sailing north

Pretty gusty atm. Partly sunny

Went to dinner last night for our anniversary. Soon as we approached the door, there was sign that said AC in use, close door behind you. Normally wouldn't think twice but it got me a bit anxious. Thankfully it was early and only one table was seated ahead of us. Waitress wore face shield so that was appreciated. Case number is very low in the town we were in (Paris), but would feel better eating outside.

Side note, we got our new mini ductless heat pump installed. I think the guy undersized the unit. We have 750sqft with 20' cathedral ceilings and he installed 12K btu Daikin. Online load calculators say we should be 15-18K. We ran unit for three hrs yesterday afternoon and we couldn't get temp in room down one degree from 78F. Humidity was lower though and it felt more comfortable.
In comparison, our master bed which is 210sqft has 5K btu and works great.

0.48" overnight. Radar suggests that's gonna be most of it

I literally have no idea how this even happens. The forecast (from pretty much every outlet I've seen) has been no big deal the entire time. Maybe, maybe there was messaging about flash flood risk early one, but that was pretty quickly changed to localized threat.

New heat pump installed yesterday. anxious to try it out today

No AC at house in Maine.  We fan and open windows.

1.18" in the tipper

Round two incoming....

0.54" in round one

Going to get 7-10'd here.

Where’s [mention=2152]Lava Rock[/mention]?  This looks pretty close to you.  What beast.  This sucka gotta be dropping some good size hail.

17 minutes ago, PhineasC said:

From the top of Cranmore today. 

too bad you couldn't get a pint at the lodge up there.

2 hours ago, rimetree said:

Minisplit AC install next Wednesday. Looks like timing will work out although aweek earlier might have been better from the sound of it.

nice. we're getting our second one tomorrow

9 minutes ago, dryslot said:

 

In the same shorts?

Low dews. Feels refreshing. Not looking forward to the sweat dripping down my crack wx coming up

37 minutes ago, Baroclinic Zone said:

Good AM Moose Pond

Enjoy the trip. Take a hike up Pleasant Mtn if you can.

Seems so odd and unexciting watching brickyard 500 without fans