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You get to deduct your property tax from your income?

I'm in Cape Breton, I'm mostly concerned about keeping my tools and the hydraulics in the lift from getting killed by the cold. What is it you are planning to buy?

It's going to be another detached garage. Right now I run everything I have on a 20a circuit and it's mostly fine except if the compressor is trying to kick over in freezing temps. The only addition is going to be a 4 post lift which has a 6a 115v pump. 40A is probably going to be fine, the...

I honestly don't know since I have never seen one. Siemens still makes a replacement and it's listed in their catalog as a BL1 which seems to suggest single pole. With their BL2 breakers only going up to 40A. I'm running 4AWG ACWU 90 cable to the garage, I was hoping to use a 50A breaker but I...

Do you have electric hot water heaters in California? Here in eastern Canada we have electric or oil fired water heaters and solar hot water makes far more sense than PV if you are simply looking to save money. Up here in Canada, PV is laughable, I'm using 2.2kw(rated) of panels just to keep a...

My 110v circuits in my house were like that, which I discovered when a pinched cord on an old drill turned it into a joy buzzer. Are you having trouble getting the ground wire into the box without contacting the hot or just getting it in there at all?

I had 6 23w CFLs in my 24'x16' garage and it was completely inadequate, and they wouldn't even come on in very cold weather. The following year I swapped them out for 6 pairs of 4ft. T8 cold weather lights (electronic balast/plug in) and it's plenty bright in there now and I haven't had to...

Could you just cut the cord end off and direct wire it into a water tight junction box?

I knew that my old ITE Blue Pennant panel only had a maximum breaker size of 50A available, I had always assumed it was a 2P/240v breaker. Turns out it is only a single pole, which I guess is going to be useless to me for feeding the garage, I'll have to go 2P 40A for now. Can anyone tell me...

The physics does seem to defy common sense on these things, I was really hoping there would be someone on here from Canada who had one of these units installed. The old stand by of a used oil furnace off Kijiji might be this years heat source at least until I get the solar panels up.

If we had natural gas available here I would have everything running off of that, it must be great to be able to have small direct vent alliances for everything. We are pretty much stuck with fuel oil, wood or electricity. I have a pellet stove in the house which is working well but it's not...

If I'm reading their information correctly, they claim the 1 ton unit puts out 12,000 btu/h at -26C and about 16,000 at -10C, does that sound about right? That's not a hell of a lot of heat but it should keep things above freezing.

Thank you, this is the sort of comparison I was trying to track down. It's handy that it's a spread sheet because the cost of electricity wherever this is from is just about half what it is here!

I may have over stated how cold it gets here, I have an external #2 tank and the fuel has never gelled up on me, people typically only have problems here if they have water in the line. I know some of the heat pumps claim to heat down to -15F, but are they relying on a resistive element to do...

It kind of depends on how the house is built. If it's not a duplex it's going to be pretty difficult. Each meter has to have its own panel, and you can't have any circuits shared between the two.

Consider Ubiquity's offering. Their software is excellent and the $100 cameras are POE and come ready for outdoor installation. http://www.ubnt.com/airvision The only bad thing I have to say about them is that the mount is not very strong so the camera has to be placed under an eve because...

The garage I'm building is going to be pretty short on space. I'll have pex in the floor for solar but it will not be hooked up for this first winter. I can get a hanging oil furnace to save space but I am considering a split heat pump since it takes up virtually no interior space. One...

Someone actually makes a 16/3 100' cord? That sounds like a good heating element for keeping ice off your roof :) I would never parallel insulated AC conductors if that is what you are talking about, it can do some pretty strange things. Are you trying to get yourself a heavy gauge 25' cord...

I've never seen a high power RGB LED you could "mix" the way you are hoping for. Using a combination of LEDs might work, you'd probably have better luck using filters on a white LED to get the effect though.

The savings would only be in electricity. So it depends on the price of electricity in your area and how many hours you actually use them if you actually want to work out which is cheaper in the end. For me, I'd rather have the white light of LEDs over CFLs at any price.