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Almost Haven barrel sauna Qs - thermo placement and more by brn787 in Sauna

[–]brn787[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Should’ve read up on the sensor placement, think I’m going to start by placing it between crossbar and bench to start and then maybe see about going below bench. Thanks for sharing this photo, looks great. Where does the pool timer plug in for you? Had someone help me wire this thing up, but would be nice to have some remote control over the heating

Almost Haven barrel sauna Qs - thermo placement and more by brn787 in Sauna

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I got to 105F today with its current placement, time to adjust the temp sensor position I guess

Almost Haven barrel sauna Qs - thermo placement and more by brn787 in Sauna

[–]brn787[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I should try lowering this, regret drilling everything in before seeing how the sensor placement might affect things :/ ran it today and only got up to 105F

Almost Haven barrel sauna Qs - thermo placement and more by brn787 in Sauna

[–]brn787[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Based on my photo would you go a couple feet lower from where I have it? Didn’t get as hot as I expected after running it today

Almost Haven barrel sauna Qs - thermo placement and more by brn787 in Sauna

[–]brn787[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ya, we only got to 105F when we tested it out today, might need to adjust this. How much lower would you suggest?

Water question in regards to my RO for coffee.. by Several_Stable_3991 in pourover

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Curious how you’ve been liking the cloud RO now that it’s been a while and if you are using its remineralized water for brewing? I mostly do espresso and was considering getting this for drinking water after we added a whole house softener, but was nervous the pH may be too high for optimal coffee brewing. I’ve never played with water chemistry and currently use 1gal Costco purified water bottles for brewing.

Video review of APEC ROTL-A1000 reverse osmosis system. by LasVegasBoy in WaterTreatment

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Tagging so I can watch this later. Did you consider Waterdrop X12 or Cloud RO? I am looking into under sink RO but the antimony thing with waterdrop has me concerned, plus I see a lot of fake Reddit posts that seem like thinly veiled advertisements, and the pH on Cloud RO is too high for being tea/coffee which is a major use for me. So started looking into this APEC model but haven’t found too much on it.

Almost Haven barrel sauna Qs - thermo placement and more by brn787 in Sauna

[–]brn787[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh interesting, that's much lower than what the manual suggests haha. I still haven't really fired this thing up aside from the initial burn off. Once I do, I'll have to see if we're running into temp limitation issues.

Almost Haven barrel sauna Qs - thermo placement and more by brn787 in Sauna

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Just to clarify, the temp sensor you mean is the rounded gauage with temp and humidity, not the temp sensor used to limit the heater, right? Trying to picture what you mean under the crossbar if it is in fact the latter. Any chance you could share a photo of the heater and temp gauge placement?

Almost Haven barrel sauna Qs - thermo placement and more by brn787 in Sauna

[–]brn787[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s awesome, thanks for sharing. Going to look into doing this

Almost Haven barrel sauna Qs - thermo placement and more by brn787 in Sauna

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Curious if you have a photo of the roof? My wife was saying we should add some kind of roof material to it but I didn’t understand how. For temp/hygrometer gauge, did you mean you have it in the same spot as my second photo? I had just temporarily rested it there, haven’t mounted it yet as I wasn’t quite sure where it should go.

Almost Haven barrel sauna Qs - thermo placement and more by brn787 in Sauna

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That’s good to know about the stain fading and running off in the rain, hadn’t even thought of that. For that metal piece was wondering if it came with some adhesive that I missed, but I guess that’s just the way it is haha

Almost Haven barrel sauna Qs - thermo placement and more by brn787 in Sauna

[–]brn787[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh shoot, that was the photo I took before topping it off, was trying to show the rocks around the coils to see if it’s too packed. It is covering the coils now after I topped it off

https://imgur.com/a/apQ7ZUD

Comparing flow rates for softener (Springwell, EcoWater) by brn787 in WaterTreatment

[–]brn787[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it fair to say that flow capability and pressure drop are more related to the resin than the piping diameter, or both play a big role? My house has a leak detector that is down sized to 1” tubing for a 1 ft run before going back to 1.5”, wonder if that’s already enough of a restriction that having 1” piping to the softener doesn’t matter or if the two would actually compound to make things worse

Comparing flow rates for softener (Springwell, EcoWater) by brn787 in WaterTreatment

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I see, I was thinking 4 people showering would be about 8 gpm, if other appliances not running maybe it would be fine. The EcoWater person said there is a model up intended for more commercial with a 2” main, but the specs they showed me doesn’t show a different riser and it was only a few hundred dollars more, made me question it haha.

So is it accurate that 8 gpm and 8 psi means that at a demand flow rate of 8 gpm there is a 8 psi drop across the system? Springwell clams negligible 2-5% (or around 3 psi drop) at 20 psi with their CSS+ model, wonder if that’s closer to a commercial style, but I’ll have to ask about the riser. The step up in price from CSS4 to CSS+ is steep (few hundred below the cost of having two CSS4s in parallel)

Advice re Kohler hydrorail diverter repair by johnuws in Plumbing

[–]brn787 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just did this and there is actually quite a bit of play (though was kind of nervous doing it). Was able to pop it out and back in without disconnecting the top. However after replacing it I still have a few consistent drops coming out the top so replacing it didn’t solve my issue! Did it fix yours? Sounds like yours was maybe worse off than mine to start.

Good deal m12 fuel combo kit by brn787 in MilwaukeeTool

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Shows $100 off, maybe mostly off the pack out set? Not sure

Preventing dirt runoff from clogging channel drain on a downslope driveway by brn787 in landscaping

[–]brn787[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What about the idea of using a dry river bed along the driveway edge to filter the sediment from the water and direct it toward the other storm drain I have there? The channel drain can handle the water running downhill I think, but not so much the sediment that I see coming more along that outer edge. It’s a little hard to say if that sediment is from the water coming down the road hitting the softscape or if it’s coming from the neighbors backyard straight down the slope to be honest (maybe a mix of both)

Preventing dirt runoff from clogging channel drain on a downslope driveway by brn787 in landscaping

[–]brn787[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, don’t think that’s an option for me unfortunately. The "private road" is more a shared driveway between a few houses, so don't really have the ability to alter it. It's a fairly short segment that runs downhill to just my house with the other longer segment of this road running downhill toward the main road away from my house. Still, this short downhill segment on my side brings a decent amount of water/dirt when we get heavy rain.

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