Comments by "DrScopeify" (@drscopeify) on "Plug-n-play solutions for home electrification, and options for power outages (Part 2)" video.

  1. I assume it is a custom import, I have never seen one for sale in any store.
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  2. I think those machines are petty small though, I think I did see one for sale but it's meant for like a small apartments. The normal size machines from GE Or Samsung don't come as all in one I guess a limitation of size of how much water the machine can deal with.
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  3.  @zandkoek  Here in Seattle we have endless large conifer tress everywhere, people live inside of the woods all over the area we are mixed housing and forest and so there are millions of trees and people living together so when there is a strong Arctic winter storm from Alaska or Canada we get hit with heavy winds and strong snow even frozen rain on top of it since temperature is usually pretty warm just a bit under freezing so trees get hit hard by the weight of snow and frozen rain and they come down. It depends on the type of storm, 2014 and 2020 were especially bad as it had frozen rain and like 3 storms together one after the other so millions of people had no power but the cities got power back after maybe a few hours to 2 days or something like that but I live on a hill side higher up and lower priority I think it took us 4 or 5 days to get power back after the roads were clear of trees and snow but this was a rare event. We had no power outages at all from 2021-2023 winter storms which were pretty bad too but almost no power outages. Not a big deal, we have a simple like $400 generator but it's enough to run the fan on the gas central heating, all the normal lights, electronics, and stove or microwave. We also have backup heating with wood but it does not get very cold here probably just fine without any heating and just warm clothes but its nice to have heating working lol.
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  4. You really can't beat the price for heating with gas, my house with an electric heat pump was around $2,400 a year and yes it was working properly but with a 98% efficient gas furnace I am paying around $800 a year so a real big reduction in price. The gas furnace + install was around $4500 and this was done around 2017 so it pretty much paid for itself by now in savings. I also had a rebate for a high efficient gas furnace for the power company I think it was like $400 but I don't remember. I don't think it makes sense to pay more for heating just to avoid using gas if it really is cheaper, I do have a very efficient home with a lot of insulation and well sealed up house even though it is from the 1950s I totally sealed the house myself over the years and you can tell when you close the door the pressure is pretty solid. I caulked and sealed every inch and insulated by myself under the floor in the crawl space and in the attic with a rental blower machine, comes out very cheap if you do the work yourself maybe $1200 or so not bad.
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