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@hotdogsladies Ohh, KFC, one of the other 3 that were once owned by pepsi. I didn't think that KFC was given access to the Baja Blast though.

@hotdogsladies Baja Blast, so you must be in a Taco Bell.

@developing_agent @marcan Hah! I hadn't even watched the video by the time I said that, and what do you know, ALUMINUM WIRING IN THE TRANSFORMER!

@TechConnectify @immibis @smokku We need more nuclear plants, obviously, if we're going heatpump in the winter. :D

@TechConnectify @theotherlinh My house is way too insulated, and retains the heat from my computers in the summer way too well... Even in the winter sometimes I have to open the window to get it below 80 in my room.

@TechConnectify @irina The first house I lived in was on Propane for 7-8 years before they finally built the natural gas network out to us. My aunt is still on propane here. I don't think we had to change our two gas-based appliances out when we made the switch, might have just been some nozzle adjustments or something.

@TechConnectify @delta_vee The first house I lived in, the heating ducting was under the floor. That doesn't work for ranch style slab houses like my current one though. Oddly, that house had a separate closet for the heater and hot water boiler too. Would have been a lot better to put them in the same closet since they both needed Propane or Natural Gas.

@TechConnectify @delta_vee ACs were introduced rather late here, most houses don't have them. The ones that do are usually mini-split ductless style or window units. Central AC other than the split units is essentially limited to commercial buildings, and I've never worked on the AC on those.

@TechConnectify @SocialJusticeHeals It would have made more sense for them to be located together here since both of them do the same job, using natural gas to boil water, but they're in two different areas of the house for me. No idea why.

@TechConnectify @delta_vee It's a gas fired, water boiling furnace. I'm not sure how I'd fit cold air through the hot water line.

@TechConnectify @delta_vee It seems bizarre that you'd need a whole unit for something that's essentially a radiator and a fan.

@TechConnectify @kilpatds My gas fired furnace is in the unheated garage here.

@delta_vee @TechConnectify The only split units like that I've seen, the indoor unit is flat against the wall and doesn't use ducting...

@TechConnectify Well, for an evap cooler, the duct is only going through the attic because there's really no way to get it down from the roof without either going through the attic, or outside the building. A lot of people I know have switched to Window units lately because the window units have gone from huge, to something that fits largely flush to the outside wall.

Other than ducts running from stuff in the house to the roof, and a couple of network cables, there's nothing up there.

@TechConnectify That would probably still interfere with some of the windows I think. And right now, we only have a single air intake that is in the hallway, and you just crack a window in any room you want the air to flow into.

@TechConnectify It's somewhere under 8 feet, but a bit over 7. Any lower and I wouldn't want to invite any tall friends over.

@TechConnectify @delta_vee Most of the actual AC units have been outside in the back yard, or on the roof. I've never seen one inside the house that wasn't a portable.

@TechConnectify There's not enough room below the attic in my house to run the ducts. we'd be hitting our heads on the ducts if we did that. Of course, we only have one duct since we're in the desert west, and that one duct runs from the roof evaporative cooler. Heating runs under the floor in most houses I've been in. In my case, hot water heat embedded in the concrete slab.

@developing_agent @marcan I wonder what good alternatives there are. The last time I took something apart from Triplite it was full of cheap aluminum wiring. Are there any good makers of UPSes now, or do we need to roll our own like HBPowerWall?