Recent content by dat2109

Very nice build, are you keeping the heat on all the time or only during projects?

Thanks for the responses everyone. I'm still working on getting quotes fine-tuned here, I've bought a number of units over the last decade or two and have generally had great luck. One house in the south had a 2 stage 96% gas furnace paired with an older single stage a/c. The furnace was...

@alexb2000 If you are saving $100 a month in the summer, even only counting those 3 summer months that's $3000 over 10 years. What was the markup? So far I've had 3 local guys come do quotes and they were all pushing me into Caddilac single stage systems instead of anything 2 stage.

A did a little digging and many 2 stage furnace will run in legacy or non-communicating mode, no idea if it is a good idea though.

@ItsNemo How do you like the way the blower varies its speed while the a/c compressor runs at a single speed?

It is looking to me like a conversion variable speed blower fan does not exist for the old single speed Lennox furnace. I also found this calculator that is telling me that unless the upgrades are less than $1500 it won't likely pay off in my circumstances. I'm in the midwest where while it...

I'm needing to have my A/C replaced because its 14 years old and started leaking freon. The furnace is the same age and as far as I can tell working okay other than some noise that might just be the install. My question is about upgrading from a basic single stage to multi-stage cooling and...

The recordings are stored on the local NAS, and you can backup the NAS to a cloud destination, or an offsite Synology. They also offer cloud access - say from your phone when you are not home - to your recordings and live view. Synology is behind with their web browser interface, outside of...