Comments by "Phillip Ellis" (@phil20_20) on "Technology Connections" channel.

  1. Three guesses who talked us into getting rid of them. You guessed it, Mr Fossil Fuel - told us we didn't need them because we had air conditioners. Now we pay extra for electricity we shouldn't need! I found some nice bolt on ones on Amazon. They have varying shade levels and colors. I only need them over a few windows to block the sun in summer and a few to block the snow in winter over the doors. I want the sun on my window heat pumps, so I'm kind of at cross purposes on some of them.
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  2. I by far pay more for heat in the winter than I do for cooling in the summer, and it gets pretty hot here.
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  3. I started looking into rings for woks to cook on, but my induction cook top died not that long after I bought it. It won't be replaced. It is another fiasco, like gas stove tops putting off all kinds of toxic chemicals inside your house. Utter nonsense! I have an air quality monitor inside my house and it barely gets any readings. HCHO is about 1/100 of the guidleline, and TVOC too low to register. 0.2 mg/m^3 is the lowest number and it never goes above it, even with two gas, vent free heaters going in the house. AQI is constant at 02. I make sure there is adequate airflow inside the house. That requires almost no effort at all. If you don't burn natural gas, it's 80 times worse than CO2. It's also called methane.
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  4. Definitely get the kind with two hoses if you must have one. The single hose models are ridiculously inefficient.
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  5. Should have gone with Tesla, but Edison had friends in high Voltage places. 😅😅
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  6. Get a new one... They are rated as high as 122°F outside temperature. That sounds like Washington State. They don't have any air conditioning, but they are getting hot summers now.
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  7. The problem is electrical work is too expensive, and regulation is archaic. I do my own wiring and if I need any more technical work, I know a lot of electricians and electrical engineers. School 🚸 helps too. 😄 or read a book 🤤
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  8. It seems like no outside coil survives installation with all its fins intact. 😆 It's always something...
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  9. There are plenty of heatpumps on the market now that can fully function from -13°F in the winter, all the way up to 122°F in the summer. That is the reality most of us are going to face sometime in the 21st century.
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  10. I use lanterns indoors all the time. You need to have a lower and higher vent to the outdoors. These do not have to be excessively large. Groundhogs use the same principle so their brains don't get starved for oxygen...
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  11. I'm getting a "Splitting" headache...
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  12. Yeh, I did buy a flat-bottom wok at Wallmart, but my induction cook top died so I never got to use it. Whether these are more efficient than other types of stove is highly debatable.
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  13. You can get 'em at big box stores for $20-30 and up, with glass kettles and multi-color LEDs. 😂 I bought a used one at first, but when that went bad, I had to have another one right away. So convenient and fast, and it saves me money on electric. - For an EV, you really need a 220-240V outlet anyway, if you don't want to leave your car on the charger all night.
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  14. Old style oil lamps actually don't smoke any more than the modern ones if you keep the wick height low enough. That's the same as a contained oil lamp. That's why Aladdin had a tube on his. If you pull the wick too far out of the oil, the wick burns and makes smoke. The oil also burns incompletely, and that where most of the smoke comes from, and soils your glass if it's in one of those types. I would like to know the burn rates of the various styles in relation to the wick size. Is the older style also burning slower, or just less efficiently?
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  15. You can buy dual hose units at reasonable price these days, or hose within hose. These are much better, and the velocity keeps the two air temperatures relatively separated. Dual hose is probably better than the other two though.
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  16. 🥁🥁📯
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  17. It all comes back to skimping to save in the short term.
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  18. There's a resonance between the two holes that allows that "other" political party to listen in on any electrical device they want to.
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  19. So, do those work for Air Conditioning? I would think so, but you might have to run a separate tube system to cool.
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  20. All semiconductors...
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