What if it Snows?

Another muggy night. Slept till about 4 am. Now it is very difficult to breathe. In a couple of hours it will dry out and I can sleep again.

On another note I rewired our furnace. Some 5-6 years ago the limit switches on our furnace died. So a furnace repairman put a expensive controller on that made the furnace run hotter and burn more fuel than we normally do. Normally we burned about 100-110 gallons of fuel per year. After the furnace guy was here the consumption became 200 gallons per year.

What changed? Well the theory behind this new unit is good. The programming isnt. The theory is that if the furnace is warm enough the gun wont turn on. The headache was the programable unit wont accept a change of input. So the unit couldnt tell that we dont have a hot water coil and ran like we did. The gun was heating the unit when the house was 85F. Normally we set the house at a comfortable to us 60F.

To change it back was to take the two wires from the switch out of the controller. Take the jumper wire off of the gun and put the jumper wire where the switch wires were inside the controller. Then reattach the switch wires to the gun. The furnace is now going to run the gun when our home is too cold and shut off when the house is too hot.

 

Soo ummm why 8 thousand plus pages here?

 

It’s a household fridge. That won’t work. Last 1500w did the same thing. I’ve got a 150amp fuse right on the battery post, never blew. Cheap inverters. Just thought I could use the same one that almost every other Truck has. Sold at Loves. I bought this one off the inter web. They got Me. It happens on occasion, when going for the “Good deal” Maybe a pure sine next time. Need one to charge batteries for cordless tools apparently, anyway. Work in progress. I’m Learning, I’m Learning!

 

Try Northerntool.com?
https://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/category_electrical+renewable-energy+power-inverters

 

This is the one I have. It is 5 years old.
3000 WATT PURE SINE POWER INVERTER 12 VDC to 120 VAC

 

You really need to purchase a condo somewhere along that route. At least invest in some raw land.

 

I got lucky during my 6 months out. Only had it happen once to me. Heading east by Gallup. Due to snow.