Nice video. Appreciate your temp analysis post installation. Installed one of these in my house (1200 sq ft single story) a couple of years ago. Here in the pacific northwest it gets quite hot in the summer (105 this week!) and this unit is exceptional. Even though my roof and walls are insulated, I could feel the difference immediately. In the afternoon my AC would struggle to keep the house under 75. I could feel the thermal boundary layer with my hand over my head as it creeped down on hot afternoons. This unit completely eliminated the heat buildup. Absolutely love the app and how I can control the automatic temp activation settings. A bit of tweaking to match our climate and it is bulletproof. I hard mounted the unit to my gable vent as you did and get a bit of rumbling telegraphing through my house frame when on high, so am considering a rubber strip under the mounting flange. Curious if you experience the same issue (although it is minor)? Thanks for posting this.
Hey thanks for chiming in with your experience. Glad to hear we were probably seeing similar issues. As far as the rumbling goes, my unit ended up coming with rubber “feet” to go between the wood and the metal screw areas if that makes sense. I didn’t end up highlighting them in this video unfortunately, but that could resolve your issue? When it is on high I can hear a slight humming in the second floor from the attic but nothing distracting or vibrating. Maybe you could get some rubber stripping from Home Depot or something and put it in between the wood and feet? Hope this helps!
Great video. Would really like to see the data on electricity usage/cost and what that breakdown is from just running the AC unit to now you’re needing to use the AC unit less and the effect that the attic fan has that as well as the cost of electricity! Also not sure if you have a video on it or not, but what is home assistant?
Appreciate that! I was also thinking the same thing. I have an energy monitor and was curious if I could find any data on that. Unfortunately don’t have data prior to installation so would have to do a specific test to see how much kWh it’s using. Home assistant is an open source project for monitoring smart home devices in a central location, you can find here: www.home-assistant.io I can only assume it’s saving cost (cost of running attic fan offsetting the amount of time my Mini Split compressor is running)
Nice video. Appreciate your temp analysis post installation.
Installed one of these in my house (1200 sq ft single story) a couple of years ago. Here in the pacific northwest it gets quite hot in the summer (105 this week!) and this unit is exceptional. Even though my roof and walls are insulated, I could feel the difference immediately. In the afternoon my AC would struggle to keep the house under 75. I could feel the thermal boundary layer with my hand over my head as it creeped down on hot afternoons. This unit completely eliminated the heat buildup. Absolutely love the app and how I can control the automatic temp activation settings. A bit of tweaking to match our climate and it is bulletproof. I hard mounted the unit to my gable vent as you did and get a bit of rumbling telegraphing through my house frame when on high, so am considering a rubber strip under the mounting flange. Curious if you experience the same issue (although it is minor)? Thanks for posting this.
Hey thanks for chiming in with your experience. Glad to hear we were probably seeing similar issues. As far as the rumbling goes, my unit ended up coming with rubber “feet” to go between the wood and the metal screw areas if that makes sense. I didn’t end up highlighting them in this video unfortunately, but that could resolve your issue? When it is on high I can hear a slight humming in the second floor from the attic but nothing distracting or vibrating.
Maybe you could get some rubber stripping from Home Depot or something and put it in between the wood and feet?
Hope this helps!
Great video. Would really like to see the data on electricity usage/cost and what that breakdown is from just running the AC unit to now you’re needing to use the AC unit less and the effect that the attic fan has that as well as the cost of electricity! Also not sure if you have a video on it or not, but what is home assistant?
Appreciate that! I was also thinking the same thing. I have an energy monitor and was curious if I could find any data on that. Unfortunately don’t have data prior to installation so would have to do a specific test to see how much kWh it’s using.
Home assistant is an open source project for monitoring smart home devices in a central location, you can find here: www.home-assistant.io
I can only assume it’s saving cost (cost of running attic fan offsetting the amount of time my Mini Split compressor is running)