gunn
4th Gear Poster
- Joined
- Sep 22, 2023
- Messages
- 288
- Location
- SF , CA
- Vehicle Details
- 95 T-bird with 5.0and m5r2 swap for lemons
Two random thoughts:
1) I got the new covid booster and man, it's made me sore. Even a day later, I'm kinda achy all over. Never had this reaction (although this is my first moderna shot and all my previous injections have been Pfizer). Last covid bout was in April this year, which sucked because I caught it on vacation. Was mild but didn't want to get the elderly fam sick so I isolated at the hotel and watched Korean zombie flicks while my wife and kid went out.
2) just replaced my perfectly good 2yr old gas water heater with a hybrid heat pump to take advantage of my excess solar.
- these things are basically the same price as gas after PGE instant $700 rebate AND 30% tax credit
- biggest downside is that my plumber was new to heat pumps and the rheem is a bit fussy. It shuts itself down if the moisture sensor on the bottom detects water. I had to make sure the condenser drain dumps off the pedestal, and have done my damndest to dry the plastic sensor mesh on the bottom (compressed air, constant fan). For now, to keep it running, I disabled the shutoff valve control and have to reset it so it ignores the moisture sensor for 24 hours.
Would I do it again, up. Uses <500w in heat pump mode and the mfers at PGE have already asked for a gas rate hike this winter of 10% price hike ($3.29 a therm or something like that). Insane.
1) I got the new covid booster and man, it's made me sore. Even a day later, I'm kinda achy all over. Never had this reaction (although this is my first moderna shot and all my previous injections have been Pfizer). Last covid bout was in April this year, which sucked because I caught it on vacation. Was mild but didn't want to get the elderly fam sick so I isolated at the hotel and watched Korean zombie flicks while my wife and kid went out.
2) just replaced my perfectly good 2yr old gas water heater with a hybrid heat pump to take advantage of my excess solar.
- these things are basically the same price as gas after PGE instant $700 rebate AND 30% tax credit
- biggest downside is that my plumber was new to heat pumps and the rheem is a bit fussy. It shuts itself down if the moisture sensor on the bottom detects water. I had to make sure the condenser drain dumps off the pedestal, and have done my damndest to dry the plastic sensor mesh on the bottom (compressed air, constant fan). For now, to keep it running, I disabled the shutoff valve control and have to reset it so it ignores the moisture sensor for 24 hours.
Would I do it again, up. Uses <500w in heat pump mode and the mfers at PGE have already asked for a gas rate hike this winter of 10% price hike ($3.29 a therm or something like that). Insane.