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Drove up to Chicagoland for a seasonal stay. It’s been a year and a half since we were last here and the house shows it. It needs lots of TLC.
Yep, welcome home - now get to work!
Drove up to Chicagoland for a seasonal stay. It’s been a year and a half since we were last here and the house shows it. It needs lots of TLC.
Had a busy day yesterday, and a fun morning today.
Yesterday - saw the youngest son graduate at Petco Park (all the high schools did their graduations at the ballpark - great for social distancing.) It was awesome seeing my son and all of his friends on the jumbo-tron as they walked across to get their diploma cases (diplomas issued today.)
Today - son was inspired by friends who graduated from a different high school on Saturday - and went surfing in cap and gown with a buddy this morning. Learned that the mortarboard cap does not hold up to surfing. One hat was lost the other disintegrated.
Had a busy day yesterday, and a fun morning today.
Yesterday - saw the youngest son graduate at Petco Park (all the high schools did their graduations at the ballpark - great for social distancing.) It was awesome seeing my son and all of his friends on the jumbo-tron as they walked across to get their diploma cases (diplomas issued today.)
Today - son was inspired by friends who graduated from a different high school on Saturday - and went surfing in cap and gown with a buddy this morning. Learned that the mortarboard cap does not hold up to surfing. One hat was lost the other disintegrated.
You made me check.Our rates are the third highest in the country, after Alaska and Hawaii. See here https://www.electricchoice.com/electricity-prices-by-state/
Although they say it's just 21.62 cents/kwh. That probably excludes the fixed charge (which based on my usage would be about 2.5 cents) and maybe some state mandated fee that goes to something else. Just dividing my bill by the kwh used works out to 26.56 cents/kwh.
Just out of curiosity, did you get your neighbor's permission before you cut the branches? The reason I ask is that about 10 years ago my neighbor's crape myrtle's branches were growing across our yard, blocking access from my gate to the back yard. They were also starting to press up against my garage windows and siding. So I cut them back to the property line, and never thought twice about it.
Recently we did something really minor that pissed them off, and they wrote us a nasty letter (he's a lawyer, so good at that) that included everything we've done to annoy them over the past 13 years. He specifically mentioned cutting the branches as trespassing and destruction of property. My response was to tell him to piss off, and then to go back to ignoring their existence.
But it makes me wonder. Do people normally ask permission to trim offending tree branches that are growing over their property? I might have mentioned I was going to do it if we'd ever had any kind of neighborly relationship, but they've hated us ever since we built next door to them. As far as I can tell, our offence was building next door to them. But all my life we've just cut branches off trees that have overhung our property. Is that not the norm?
I fixed my Salt Water Pool Salt Cell! (Chlorine Generator) A `$700 saving. Cost me Nada as I had a 8.2k Resistor. The Salt Generator was Reading 150*F Temp and 2000ppm Salt. Water was actually ~80*F and salt is ~3,500ppm.
This is a common fault as the Salinity is a calculation not a measurement. It takes the Temp from an internal sensor on some cells, some sensors are external, mine was in-cell. Performs a calculation with Temp, Cell Current and Voltage and comes up with the salinity. This goes to hell if the Temp sensor is bad. The vendors do not replace the sensor (Thanks grossly overpriced Hayward parts) and tell you to get a new cell. Mine was out of warranty.
I bypassed the Sensor with an 8.2k Resistor for now and life is good. Pool temp is 84*F and Salt cell is reading 86*F, I can deal with that. The Resistor is on a socket so can be changed as desired. I will most likely replace it with an in-line 10k Sensor and wire it into the cell.
Being as the pool stays between 80*F and 90*F for the next 4 months, I have plenty of time. I have a traditional thermometer in the pool so it is easy to compare. Most 10k Thermistor charts/Tables will show the resistance at any given temp, so resister selection is easy for any time of year.
I simply removed the wire cover on the cell, cut the Red and Blue sensor wires, replaced the in-cell sensor with a small push socket and inserted the resistor, then put the cover back on. Result! Job done.
I am very pleased with myself, and chlorine is being generated as I type.
Nice job...I love stories like this!
I fixed my Salt Water Pool Salt Cell! (Chlorine Generator) A `$700 saving. Cost me Nada as I had a 8.2k Resistor. The Salt Generator was Reading 150*F Temp and 2000ppm Salt. Water was actually ~80*F and salt is ~3,500ppm.
This is a common fault as the Salinity is a calculation not a measurement. It takes the Temp from an internal sensor on some cells, some sensors are external, mine was in-cell. Performs a calculation with Temp, Cell Current and Voltage and comes up with the salinity. This goes to hell if the Temp sensor is bad. The vendors do not replace the sensor (Thanks grossly overpriced Hayward parts) and tell you to get a new cell. Mine was out of warranty.
I bypassed the Sensor with an 8.2k Resistor for now and life is good. Pool temp is 84*F and Salt cell is reading 86*F, I can deal with that...
My 3-year old iPhone had been shifting into low power mode before the end of the day much too often lately, so I went to the local Apple store to get a new battery put in it. Great experience -- it was ready in less than an hour. That should give me at least another year of good performance.
The Apple store is in a big mall and I was surprised to see that they, and many other stores in the mall, are still requiring everyone to be masked. No requirement in the mall outside those stores.
This sensor sounds like it's a common NTC 10K thermistor (Negative Temperature Coefficient). It is very popular for temperature measurement in various applications that do not deal with extreme heat or cold.
The value of this thermistor is 10K ohm at 25C (77F), and decreases with rising temperature. At 84F, the value should be about 8,860 Ohm. Your 8.2k resistor corresponds to the temperature a bit higher than 85F, which agrees with your readout of 86F.
This thermistor costs only a few pennies in quantities. You should be able to find it on eBay or Amazon. If it is immersed in the pool water, then the original sensor must have been encapsulated somehow. I would bury the replacement in a gob of silicon caulk.
PS. You can also buy the same thing already encapsulated inside a small metal probe.
Yes but, it needs to be waterproof as it gets immersed in water. I will use this one:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07Q8RHK7D/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
... AC has been running 50% today (10 minutes on, 10 minutes off) keeping the house at 77.5 when it's 105 outside. Pretty cool, that's the way it's supposed to work...
I'm glad your wife got a good report, street. Enjoy your day tomorrow.Spent almost all day at the hospital. My wife had a colonoscope and Doc was about 5 hours behind with emergencies and surgery that needed more time. That is country/rural doctoring and just the way things are. All in all we where blessed with a good report.
Was a beauty of a day high of 73 degree and a blue bird day. Drove me crazy to be inside but tomorrow I will make up for today.