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62.8F. Chilly for mid Jul stds

Upper 30s northern ME

We going back to hot and dry soon?

Not sure if this was mentioned, but seems like pretty big news. Moderna Covid vaccine entering final testing stage after initial results showed positive immunity in everyone vaccinated, with normal side effects.

Showers finally drying up, 1.20" in the tipper.

3.87" for the month of July after 5.36" for June, We wet.

2.07"

1.61". Precip is just pinwheeling around

Excellent storm in PWM. Lots of c-g. hvy rn, wind

3 minutes ago, MaineJayhawk said:

Dark as night in Portland

 

that lightening was close just now

36 minutes ago, radarman said:

perfect base builder... dense and heavy, covers stuff up

holy shite. Very dark here in PWM with thunder

I never recall 'nadoes being somewhat common in NE. Seems like in last 10yrs we've had more than I recall. ME averages 2 and we had one this past wknd.

3 minutes ago, tamarack said:

The heat pumps (times 3) at our church look like yours though about 1/4 wider, befitting a room 65' by 45' with cathedral ceiling.

Off topic, but is that a Hawken reproduction hanging below the balcony railing?

I forget. Was my Dads. Single action. Has emblem with three presidents on the stock. Early 70's rifle.

4 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

If those windows south anywhere near south, you must roast in there during the day?  That unit looks a bit small for that space but I also like Ginxy’s advice.  I’d have a fan going in the loft.  My parents have a loft/open area like that and they run a ceiling fan 24/7 to clear out the eaves.  

That unit looks like it’s fighting larger space and a lot of heating from those windows.

We do face S/SW. Great in the Winter. Thankfully in Summer the sun goes over the roof, so we get no sun through front of windows, but we also have a "hot roof", so temps get very warm up near ceiling fan. Late in day, we get couple hrs of sun through the wall the unit is on which is why we put some curtains up yesterday.

I read online that if ceiling is >8ft, you should add ~30% more BTU. Our guy clearly didn't take that into acct.

15 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Run a floor upright fan from that balcony.  I assume you have no ceiling fans. You have a stratified environment.  Air needs to mix and move more. Could be undersized too but I would move air from that ceiling to create thermals . I would also invest in shades and curtains to block those windows out during the day. You are fighting a lot of things there.

Good advice. We hung some temp curtains yesterday. We do have a large ceiling fan, not pictured. Will turn on. I assume we want to have it spin such that air is pushing down or will that only push more hotter heat down, making AC more difficult to cool?

1 minute ago, DavisStraight said:

Just spent 4 days at my sisters, she had two units and the house was freezing all 4 days I was there, she runs them like the guys above are saying, her house is 1680 sf and she also has high ceilings and they're mounted high up. I asked her the size and she wasn't sure.

Here's a pic of the install. cat seems comfortable

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