Lower your thermostat every time you leave the house in the winter mon (1 Viewer)

[ghostguy123]

Someone needs to lay out a specific example of exactly how leaving it on all day at any specific temp would be more cost effective than turning it on when you get home and letting it run longer that one time to get back up to the desired temp.

If ArcticEdge were still here, he could figure it out. Without him, I'm not sure anyone here is smart enough. Maybe Em....

Yeah, I guess I just need a full laid out plan of how leaving it on all day would actually have the furnace run for a shorter amount of time than if you left it off for a while then turned it on.

Em???? Help us out EM

 

[Acme CEO]

Wonder if the Nest algorithm calculates the amount of energy needed to get a house to a certain temp vs. maintaining heat.

Otherwise, what's the point of a Nest? We can already pre program heating routines easily on our own.

 

[SWC]

brohan that nest thing looks like hal from space odasee so it has that going for it which is nice take that to the bank bromigos

 

[ghostguy123]

Wonder if the Nest algorithm calculates the amount of energy needed to get a house to a certain temp vs. maintaining heat.

Otherwise, what's the point of a Nest? We can already pre program heating routines easily on our own.

The Nest would have to know upcoming weather and also the exact efficiency of your insulation.

Maybe they need to invent something programmable for the vents themselves. At night you can program certain vents in the house to close and choose to warm/cool only certain rooms.

Or even fancier and climate control each room so ya dont risk a room going down to like 55 or up to 85 or whatever.

Or would the electricity of all that just not be cost effective. Doesnt seem like it woud use TOO much to have the system move the vents a few times a day.

Does this exist or did I just invent something?

 

[ghostguy123]

Hell just the other night my bedroom was way too hot, felt like 70+, but I go out into the living room and it was 64 and obviously much cooler. Apparently the insulation in my bedroom is way the hell better than the main part of the house. Makes sense I guess.

 

[SWC]

Wonder if the Nest algorithm calculates the amount of energy needed to get a house to a certain temp vs. maintaining heat.

Otherwise, what's the point of a Nest? We can already pre program heating routines easily on our own.

The Nest would have to know upcoming weather and also the exact efficiency of your insulation.

Maybe they need to invent something programmable for the vents themselves. At night you can program certain vents in the house to close and choose to warm/cool only certain rooms.

Or even fancier and climate control each room so ya dont risk a room going down to like 55 or up to 85 or whatever.

Or would the electricity of all that just not be cost effective. Doesnt seem like it woud use TOO much to have the system move the vents a few times a day.

Does this exist or did I just invent something?

bromigo this exists it is called a damper and it is a little motor with damper blades that sits inside the duct and opens or closes it to let air out of the vent it is controled by a thermostat on the wall but it is more expoensive and you see it on commercial stuff not on the residential side normally take that to the bank

 

[ghostguy123]

bromigo this exists it is called a damper and it is a little motor with damper blades that sits inside the duct and opens or closes it to let air out of the vent it is controled by a thermostat on the wall but it is more expoensive and you see it on commercial stuff not on the residential side normally take that to the bank

Well bromigo, I guess I will stick to doing it manually

 

[SWC]

i regret to inform you bromigo that that is what those of us on this side of the tracks do but hey life is good and you can still have a good time even if you have to open and close your vent by hand every once in a while take that to the bank brochacho

 

[Otis]

your neighbor also leave his lights on all day? leave his car running?

Knew this was gonna make you mad.

PS I lave my heat and lights on all the time. You'd HATE living next to Otis.

I am not mad about it, I just think it is odd. There is not one logical reason I can think of to keep your house livable warm when nobody is actually in the house.

Either way, I would absolutely love living next to Otis. Means I am making bank.

And I could probably convince you to hire me to change light bulbs and install molding for 10's of thousands of dollars. Or we would just drink a lot of scotch together.

This actually sounds pretty awesome. Let's make it happen.

 

[odin33]

My cousin installed a new HVAC system at my house in August. He highly recommended the ecobee model, and while I keep getting an error message about auxiliary pump being on for too long i do like the system. Very easy to program and make updates to. It has wireless/phone capabilities but I need to set all that up still.

The one thing he mentioned that I don't see posted here was that it wasn't very efficient to drastically alter the temperature during the summer months. He said anything over a few degrees is likely too much. Reason being is the AC unit is truly conditioning the air (removing moisture) vs a furnace which is just adding heat. If this isn't done every so often then the unit has to work harder to get back to "cool" and there goes most of your savings plus having to wait for it to get cool.

For you fellow misers out there I've heard (not from cousin) that every degree is worth roughly 3% of your bill.

Furnace question for you guys:

Does anyone have a duel fuel (gas and electric) system to obtimize savings? This will be my first winter and said cousin said his bills went from ~500 to ~300-350/mo. For a $200 upgrade at install that's a potential huge savings.

 

[BustedKnuckles]

never turn it higher than 65...all winter...as low as 58 when im not home

 

[Drifter]

69 from 6:30 to 22:30 with it locked to be manually adjusted to a max of 70. Set to hit temp by 6:30 so heat comes on between 5:30 and 6 typically in the winter.

Drops to 65 from 22:30 to 00:30 and drops again to 63 from 00:30 to 06:30.

Away temp based on sensing no movement or from manual activation is 62.