PJ
Just a quick thought, but do you have an electrostatic air
cleaner in the duct work?
Steve Hammatt
Mount Vernon WA USA
----- Original Message -----
From: "PJ McGarvey" <pj_mcgarvey@hotmail.com>
To: "Talk, Shop" <shop-talk@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2008 4:37 PM
Subject: [Shop-talk] Hot air furnace parasitic loss
> I'm wondering if any of the guys here have tried measuring the
> parasitic
> energy loss of their hot air furnace, since I know some of you have
> those
> meters you can use to measure electricity usage.
>
> So I'm in the electrical panel this afternoon, and I noticed the
> furnace
> breaker is on, so I turn it off since we're not running the heat
> just yet.
> When I turn it off, I hear a buzzing sound stop, which is obviously
> the heater
> which is 3 feet to my right. Turn it back on, buzzing continues,
> back off,
> buzzing stops.
>
> Now I'm not assuming that the heater of all things uses any power
> when "off"
> like the way other electronic devices do, but is there even some
> microscopic
> amount being used? If so, add that up over the summer season, and
> it could be
> worth making sure these things are off...
>
> FYI, I usually leave the breaker off until it's heating season, but
> I think
> that the technician had left it on when he serviced it about a month
> ago.
>
> Thanks,
> PJ
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