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For a good long while there were artifacting issues with the Core One that the MK4/S didn’t have running on largely the same motors and electronics.

So they’ll make black iron pipe illegal and require it to be replaced with plastic flex hose.

Can I ask if the 14c/KWh is the rate you pay for generation only or the whole cost to deliver 1 KWh to your house (transmission,distriubtion,generation,customer connection plus fees). Put another way, if you consumed 1000KWh in a month would you have exactly a $140 electric bill?

The price per kWh is set at 12.623c/kWh, which they then adjust up and down a few hundredths of a cent via “rider” for fuel costs, it tends to hover around 14c/kWh in my experience. To this is added a $14 monthly Basic Customer Charge, and then state sales tax.

So in a month where I consume exactly 1000kWh, the bill would be ($0.14c/kWh*1000kWh + $14)*1.07 = 164.78.

Something I just now learned reading documentation kinda buried on the website, during the winter months, even on a standard rate plan, it’s 12.623c for the first 800 kWh, and then 11.623c for each additional kWh. I’m guessing to go easier on folks with electric heat? I’ve never come close to 800kWh…I may have to look back.

Ouch, so even on the fixed rate power plan you essentially 4.67:1 net export (as in you have to export 4 KWh at midday to import 1 KWh any other time of day)?

They don’t allow you to grid tie solar panels on a fixed rate power plan. If you attach solar panels to the grid you HAVE to be on a ToU plan, and that deal is actually getting worse on New Year’s Day for those who plan to export power. I’m honestly struggling to understand some details about that, most literature about it starts saying “The bridge rate is being grandfathered out” and stuff like that without explaining what it’s talking about, so if you’re a newcomer to the discussion, fuck off back to kindergarten, child.

I’m three states north of you and we’ve been running on our Cold Climate Heat pump for two winters now without any gas heating. This unit can still extract heat for the house when the outside temperature is -15°F, but its running pretty inefficiently.

Yeah we’re definitely designing HVAC against different climates. Down here, we never see temps as low as -15F. I don’t think I’ve ever seen 0F. Heat pumps struggle more to keep up in the summer here, mine has failed to keep the house at 75 a few times every year I’ve lived here, and there’s no such thing as strips to help out.

I’m not getting rid of gas without a whole house system capable of running a heat pump for at least a day, for power outage reasons. We’ll have winter storms that’ll take down the lines, and then I’m heating my house with a Glo-Warm, since it requires no power, and the gas system around here…I’ve seen it fail once, because someone didn’t call 811 before renting a backhoe.

I don’t currently have a large scale system; I’m currently running my fridge and a few other things off of a portable solar/battery setup, as part of researching a whole home system. I’m on a standard rate plan, I pay 14c/kWh round the clock.

The ToU price and schedule for my region looks like this:

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Peak is ~29c/kWh, Off-Peak is ~11c/kWh, Discount is ~7c/kWh. So I could save money if I just switched to the ToU plan and threw my main breaker 3 hours a day.

My local energy company’s exporting solar program is bad and about to get worse, to the point it’s out of the question. I’m not going to sell them power at mid-day for 3c/kWh and buy it back at damn near 30 at night. So the only real winning strategy here is the “ToU + battery time shift” and since the equipment needed to do that almost certainly has plugs for solar power, might as well put up some panels. Buying power at 7c/kWh in the early morning, generating your own power and not buying anything during the day while power is 11c/kWh, and then using the power you bought earlier when it costs 29c/kWh is the move.

Not as useful on a heat pump where you want to generally run the same temp 24/7/365 to give the heat pump the most time to extra energy from the outside air and avoid large temperature swings triggering power hungry electric strip backup heating. A programmable thermostat is still useful for the occasional vacation hold though.

This isn’t congruent with my understanding of how heat pumps work. Electric strips are going to kick on in extreme cold if/when the heat pump can’t keep up, or for defrosting the outdoor unit. Every heat pump I’ve used, unless they frost up, will happily heat a house to 80 degrees from 32 without kicking on the emergency heat until and unless it needs to defrost. I’ve never personally seen one kick on heat strips simply for increased Delta-T, not without manually putting it in EM-HEAT mode.

I don’t currently own a heat pump, I have an air conditioner and a condensing furnace. My long term plan is to have the air conditioner replaced with a heat pump, and keep the furnace for emergency heat instead of strips. I recently learned that in North Carolina, if a given heat pump system is calculated to keep the home up to a certain temperature on the typical coldest night in the county, backup heat is not legally required. Defrost will be achieved by running the unit in AC mode, so you’ll occasionally get a blast of cold air from the vents.

Neither my air conditioner nor my furnace run 24/7/365, both are duty cycle modulated, they turn on and off throughout the day and night to maintain temperature. Here in late September I actually have the system switched entirely off and my windows are open, because it’s a comfy 65F outside tonight. Spring and fall are comfortable enough that I just don’t run HVAC for 4 months a year.

I know more about electronics than finance.

What I would do is take a more holistic approach to your home’s power system, with solar panels as one very useful tool in a well-stocked tool belt, that also includes:

• A time-of-use power plan from your energy company.
• A whole house battery
• A smart or programmable thermostat
• A few outlet timers
• An electric car charger with timer or some similar solution

I am currently on a standard rate power plan, I pay 14 cents a kilowatt-hour no matter the time of day. My power company offers a time-of-use plan that varies between 29 , 11 and 7 cents per kilowatt hour depending on the time of day. The game becomes, buy as little power as possible during the 3 hours it’s 29 cents, and as much as possible during the 5 hours while it’s 7 cents.

This might mean doing laundry and dishes at 1 in the morning, setting a timer to charge your EV at 1 in the morning, setting a thermostat to turn air conditioning off between the hours of 6 and 9, that sort of stuff. A battery system can store energy when it’s cheap for later use when it’s expensive. Solar power is then a further reduction in the amount of power you buy; in my area depending on time of year the solar producing parts of the day are either in mid- or discount-price times, so the bulk of your savings are coming from discounts and time shifting. They’d likely be more valuable during extended power failures than day to day power savings, as you’re unlikely to generate a dollar per day.

Noted. Fight the good fight TheDude.

That’s a Gillette Superspeed, or a modern reproduction. They’re about 3 inches long.

The man credited with inventing the mortgage was 15th century Englishman Nicholas Barbon. Sometimes his last name is rendered Barebon or Barebone; because Benjamin Franklin hadn’t invented spelling yet. Nicholas Barbon’s middle name was apparently “If-Jesus-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hasdst-been-damned”.

His dad’s name was Praise-God Barbon.

Look, if you ever want to know why American theology is as fucked as it is, it’s because we were colonized by people like THAT.

I seem to recall hearing that viagra will turn your vision blue. And then they released that series of ads for it with a blue tint, which struck me as an interesting choice.

Lies, damned lies and statistics.

It is kind of offputting how it’s phrased as “We make fun of men for being lonely, right? I mean, look at them. PFFFHAHAHAHAHA! But it might be an actual problem because it effects women too.”

See, the United States named our battleships after things like North Carolina and New Jersey, and they’re currently on display in North Carolina and New Jersey.

That’s the wrong approach. If you’re installing more than a couple hundred watts worth of panels you should either do an independent system or do a proper grid-tied solution.

Actions have consequences. And these lead addled limp dick obsoletes have dodged the consequences of their actions for 6 or 7 too many decades.