tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post3681383431634397933..comments2024-03-26T10:02:32.848-04:00Comments on The Adventures of Roberta X: Up EarlyRoberta Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-78380180354502407462016-08-07T10:32:33.192-04:002016-08-07T10:32:33.192-04:00Anon 9:33: Exhaust air from the the transmitter PA...Anon 9:33: Exhaust air from the the transmitter PAs is about 10.5 miles away from this room. I don't think the city will let us run ductwork. :)Roberta Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-24330419401663434622016-08-06T21:33:04.701-04:002016-08-06T21:33:04.701-04:00"Don't have a suitable source of heat.&qu...<br />"Don't have a suitable source of heat."<br /><br />Where does the exhaust air from the transmitter PA finals go? Right there is free heat. Re-route that back indoors, perhaps.<br /><br />Anyways, best luck to the 'top men' *cough*...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-50135392126053092582016-08-06T11:19:15.354-04:002016-08-06T11:19:15.354-04:00Don't have a suitable source of heat. I am ho...Don't have a suitable source of heat. I am hoping things will level out -- but it is, rather emphatically, not my department. They have Top. Men. working on it, not some silly girl engineer.Roberta Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-54477525133598498752016-08-06T09:31:19.814-04:002016-08-06T09:31:19.814-04:00It has been my experience that the intersection of...It has been my experience that the intersection of "happy" and "right" seldom occur on the pale green graph paper of life.waepnedmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07114411043832799988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-51551845271275525832016-08-06T06:49:23.331-04:002016-08-06T06:49:23.331-04:00Mr. Cajun hit on the answer there in his link, add...<br />Mr. Cajun hit on the answer there in his link, add heat. Sounds counterintuitive, but it actually isn't. <br /><br />Expensive as all hell, electricity or gas damn sure ain't cheap, but they're Corporate, and they can afford it by tightening their belts some more. (My happy Honda car did it that way, blending engine heat with the A/C for temp control. Kept the cabin dry as a desert, even here in central Floria-Duh.)<br /><br />Huh? Wha? You say those belts are already way, way overtight? Fear not! They'll take in a notch or three. At the employee's expense of health and sanity, of course...<br /><br />(Fuzzy makes an excellent point on LED lighting, they *finally* have the crappy blue spectra problem licked, the light is now a gorgeous warm hue, standard home dimmers work on them as well. And the price is far cheaper. Consider converting your home over to LED.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-87598525729269809492016-08-05T16:57:21.164-04:002016-08-05T16:57:21.164-04:00They just have too much tonnage. They're cool...They just have too much tonnage. They're cooling the air off so fast, it doesn't have time to wring the humidity out of it. They'd also need to replace the condensing unit and probably the tubing...I'm hoping this is a rooftop unit that could be pulled and replaced as a whole? But even if it's a split system, the investment in replacing it would pay itself off in time in significantly lower electric bills, as you've already pointed out.<br /><br />I mean, come on, down the street at the churchy-looking building with the tall tower, we replaced most of our light bulbs with LEDs five years ago for around $70K, and in five years we've repaid ourselves already. Someone in your front office isn't using their noodle.Fuzzy Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03802539927743643041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-61136039818960212482016-08-05T13:23:40.794-04:002016-08-05T13:23:40.794-04:00My 'air conditioning' story:
http://mostl...My 'air conditioning' story:<br /><br />http://mostlycajun.com/wordpress/?p=654<br /><br />My current projects in progress include a pair of 4160-volt, 6000 horsepower variable frequency drives. These are air-cooled, but we (that corporate 'we') elected NOT to use outside air for this, so the switchgear room with the drives in it has THREE air handlers, each with thirty tons of refrigeration capacity to handle the heat off those drives.<br /><br />Working in a similar station already on line, that room is like a nice cool wind tunnel.<br /><br />MCmostly cajunhttp://mostlycajun.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-14129187379776661792016-08-05T11:32:21.778-04:002016-08-05T11:32:21.778-04:00And yet -- they're still fiddling around with ...And yet -- they're still fiddling around with variable-frequency drives, having already tried slowing the air-handler way down. Wong answer! And this with "expert" advice. Jeepers: Remove 20-ton coil, install 5-ton. Hell, don't even remove it. Abandon it in place and bolt in the smaller one. Run the blower all the time.Roberta Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-90608216272971229872016-08-05T11:27:53.565-04:002016-08-05T11:27:53.565-04:00I had a professor once who said if the footnotes w...I had a professor once who said if the footnotes weren't longer than the text, the book wasn't any good. ;-)<br /><br />But yeah, any good HVAC tech could have given them a good response to "What could go wrong?"Fuzzy Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03802539927743643041noreply@blogger.com