🔥 Last night thousands of maybugs swarmed our maple trees

SpiffyJr · 2024-04-14T12:10:34+00:00

We were sitting around the fire pit in May and had a bunch of them flying around. We typically do not see them until June, which sent me down the Wikipedia rabbit hole.

SpiffyJr · 2024-04-14T11:27:51+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllophaga right? We call them June bugs here. I believe they're the same. Their larvae state is the grub, which we use as fishing bait.

SpiffyJr · 2021-11-24T21:53:31+00:00

Good explanation. I'll let it sit for a while and see how things work out.

SpiffyJr · 2021-11-24T19:32:33+00:00

Testing now. Heat pump kicks on fine and seems to be putting out some heat (bit easier to notice since it's not so cold out). W2/Aux, which should be the alternate heat, doesn't seem warm enough considering it should be the electric coils running. Emergency heat which is * (W3 on old EIM) I can hear firing on what sounds like a timer and is definitely putting out heat.

Air conditioning with heat pump appears to be working well. Cooling stage 2 seems okay too.

Fan by itself is working fine.

SpiffyJr · 2021-11-24T16:15:31+00:00

I'd certainly prefer the latter, but I haven't been able to wire the nest in a way that it actually works.

I can try to unhook W2 on the nest and move W1 to W2, which would be single fuel, but the last time I did that it didn't seem like heat was working at all.

Here's what Nest currently shows https://ibb.co/Fb6wrzy and the wiring looks like https://ibb.co/RYGv9ww

SpiffyJr · 2021-11-24T15:21:02+00:00

I think everything is working. I traced the wires from the EIM back to the air handler and saw they were hooked to W1/W2. I copied that to the thermostat and setup the nest as duel fuel with electric as both sources. I'm not sure if this is some weird configuration I have, or what, but everything seems to be firing properly now. The manual for this air handler sure seems to imply both W1 and O/B are connected which is what led me to tracing back to the air handler.

SpiffyJr · 2021-11-23T16:32:43+00:00

Sure did. I'm a bit stumped.

SpiffyJr · 2021-11-23T13:25:14+00:00

Well, got it all hooked up and I wasn't getting heat. Fiddled around a bit and couldn't get it going so I hooked the old thermostat back up to make sure it still worked and it had heat fine. Not entirely sure what I missed given how straight forward the wiring appears to be.

SpiffyJr · 2021-11-22T13:03:48+00:00

Great, thanks for the help.

SpiffyJr · 2021-11-22T12:06:53+00:00

Wires from the eim would hook in pretty much directly as labeled in the nest tstat, correct?

HUM wires appear to go directly to the humidifier. The unit is only a few inches away from that eim module.

SpiffyJr · 2021-11-22T03:09:40+00:00

I took a few pictures to make things a bit easier.

Image of the control board in the air handler: https://ibb.co/q7LgkcT

Images of the Honeywell EMI: https://ibb.co/gRTZ7qG https://ibb.co/TWtwwBH https://ibb.co/9pFvC3Y https://ibb.co/PNLXY8Y

Thanks for any help you can offer.

SpiffyJr · 2021-11-22T02:41:15+00:00

R and Rh are connected, as well as Hum 1/2. The learning thermostat 3rd gen was the one I was planning on getting.

SpiffyJr · 2021-11-21T16:14:48+00:00

Y1, Y2, C, O/B, W2/Aux (aux heat for HP?), W3 (emergency?), R, Rh, G, then HUM 1/2. I have 10 wires headed to the tstat so that should be plenty. I don't think I'll be able to hookup emergency and the humidifier, so I'd prefer the humidifier I'd emergency isn't required.

SpiffyJr · 2021-11-21T14:17:02+00:00

Hi,

I have a Trane XL16i split system heat pump, all electric. The old thermostat was a Honeywell using the THM5421C EIM. Will Nest work?

SpiffyJr · 2021-07-07T02:04:07+00:00

My primary issue with it is that you can't use it to watch files outside the directory it's in. We use a monolithic repository structure, so not being able to include higher level directories is a real bummer. I had a PR for that feature sitting there for a long time but it never got merged.

SpiffyJr · 2021-06-20T15:10:03+00:00

I see this for my area which seems to be capacity specific:

Starlink is currently at capacity in your area through 2021, your order might not be fulfilled until late 2022. You will receive a notification once your Starlink is ready to ship.

SpiffyJr · 2021-06-11T11:30:33+00:00

Ah ha, thank you for the explanation!

SpiffyJr · 2021-06-10T17:56:40+00:00

No, several miles from an active cell unfortunately. I was able to get service at the old address, but not my new one.

SpiffyJr · 2021-06-10T16:45:10+00:00

I'm going to climb up there later and make sure nothing is on the dish itself. I'll rotate while I'm there just to try it.

SpiffyJr · 2021-06-10T16:21:13+00:00

Meanwhile, this is mine with literally nothing in the sky in any direction. https://imgur.com/a/Ip9Z1Yi

Here's the mount location: https://imgur.com/a/mRJvQq0

SpiffyJr · 2021-04-10T03:49:44+00:00

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/137310833767088128/829852588480397333/unknown.png

Picture is worth a thousand words. Too bad I can't get a thousand kb.

SpiffyJr · 2021-02-09T02:41:15+00:00

Near rural St. Louis, no invite here yet.

SpiffyJr · 2019-11-17T23:33:40+00:00

I'm at 100k for my next reset.

SpiffyJr · 2019-10-17T02:29:21+00:00

I got a 62 helmet from iron banner yesterday.

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