Anybody Got The interruptible Power For Their House A/C?

[Doc Tinker]

I got the interruptible power for my house A/C and am I ever regretting it. It's hotter than heck and they've turned off the power now for over an hour. They say they won't shut it off longer than 15 minutes per hour and here I am with a hot house.



I'm moving out to the trailer pretty soon, unless they plug me back in!



Doc

 

[EMDDIESEL]

My father has that in Florida, he cant stand it

 

[klenger]

When I bought our A/C, I got a 12 SEER system, which is 20% more efficient that the standard 10 SEER systems. I figure I'm already doing my part.

 

[Briar Hopper]

Uh, Doc, Pacific Power & Light has control over Michigan, now?

Bummer. At least I live in a state with plenty of coal mines & rivers. What I save on my power bill, I give back in excessive taxes.

 

[Doc Tinker]

Briar - I think it's a conspiracy that all the utilities are using now. They all saw how well it worked in California and now they are doing it here



Actually, I signed up for the service (or the lack of service, really). It just hasn't turned out as promised. Why am I not surprised?



Doc

 

[Straight6Jeff]

What is "interuuptable power"? I haven't been keeping up with the news... too da&* depressing.



So what does the electric company do, just shut off the power? I've heard aabout the rolling blackouts in CA? is it the same thing?

 

[Doc Tinker]

It's an optional feature that allows the utility company to turn off the power to your a/c during high usage times. They give a nice price break on the kw/hour charges, if you take it. I have a box on my a/c that must accept a radio signal to turn off the power.



Doc

 

[DieselDoghouse]

HMMM... . curious minds (and hands) would like to take a trip inside that box!!!! Wonder iff, your a/c 'had to be powered through a GFI device (for safety of course!) they seem to block RFI pretty well as they have 'ampere' coils' for the trip sensor... . Or if the signal is free radiated and something just 'happened' to be shielding the box—no signal, no problem??. Here in New England we also allow the utility control of large load devices in peak demand.

Large load = anything. Peak demand = all the time. After the 'Andrea Gale' storm we were out for 14 days!! Now have a 15KW Westerbee salvaged from a ferry in the backyard!!

 

[merryman]

What is A/C?

Here on the Oregon Coast, a really HOT day is when the thermometer slides way up past the mid 70s, and that only happens rarely. Most warm days are high 60s.

Course when winter comes, a really cold day is when it barely puts a little frost on the windshield; but then, the wind does blow, summer and winter and in the winter, it does RAIN.

Vaughn

 

[illflem]

Vaughn, when Lewis and Clark crossed the country they noted that the coldest feeling place they stayed was on the Oregon coast, this included a winter in the Rockies!!!

 

[Dkevdog]

Maybe CA could lend you some power- looks like we have a surplus after all!!

Kev

 

[illflem]

Three Hillbillies are sitting on their porch in Arkansas. One says, "Boy is my wife dumb. She's so stupid that she went shoppin today

and bought an air-conditioner. Heck, we ain't got electricity!"

Then the other guy says, "Ah that ain't nothin, my wifes dumber than that!

She went shoppin yesterday and had a washin machine delivered. " They all

laughed and laughed, why nobody around here has plumbing!

The third Hillbilly said, "Well, I reckon my womans got to be the dumbest.

Just this morning I was looking in her purse for some change and found six condoms. Heck, she ain't got no pecker. "

 

[merryman]

illflem;

A Montana outfitter I have hunted Elk with,(Ronnie Wright of Beartooth Plateau Outfitters, Cook City Montana) and a really good guy), having grown up in Montana, said he thought he was in for a good deal when the Army sent him to Fort Ord(Calif. coast) in Feb. He said he froze all winter there, even though it was by the thermometer, 50 degrees warmer than home in Montana. The dampness does get to you.



Vaughn