Super Cheap Way to Prevent my Pipes From Freezing (It's Not Heat Tape!)
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How to prevent your crawl space pipes from freezing. I need a way to keep my crawlspace from freezing that doesn't take a lot of electricity since my cabin runs on solar power. The best heating and cooling systems don't generate heat, they move it or concentrate it from one place to another. This fan blows warm air from the cabin into the crawl space which is now conditioned air like the rest of the cabin. We use an old thermostat, a solid state relay and a computer fan to get this done. Very basic automation.
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Clickable Index
@ 0:00 Pretty pictures
@ 0:24 Subject of the video
@ 1:10 Demonstrating it works
@ 2:03 How it's wired
@ 2:59 Skillshare is sponsoring this video
@ 3:30 Sweet drone footage
@ 4:10 Drilling holes and pulling wires
@ 6:10 Mounting the thermostat and wiring it
@ 9:11 Inside wiring of the relay and fan
@ 12:30 Final connection and surprised it works
@ 14:18 Going outside and seeing if it turns off
@ 15:21 The all knowing oracle gives direction
@ 16:55 That time I accidentally went viral
@ 18:16 Questions you might have
@ 19:39 Canon lens giveaway
@ 20:10 Abandoned dog follow up
@ 20:51 Thanks and credits
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Mike, thank you again! I promise to use the heck out of it! There are so many things here in Alaska that will lend itself to that lens, I am so excited to try it out. This video cleared up an idea I had on wiring my indoor battery storage with a fan that would come on while I am charging the system, so that is a bonus! You may not think so, but you are like Yoda of the low voltage projects to me!
Hey Sean, no problem man, I hope you enjoy the lens as much as I have it's my go to lens whenever I want a special look to a shot. It also takes amazing photos. Also, I believe I have done your battery fan project, not sure if you saw this one: th-cam.com/video/iwE_3SZ37IU/w-d-xo.html
good work Mike, Sean will be sure to put that lens to good use. Make his videos even better.
@@OffgridwithJayandJen Thanks guys!!
Another update on the dog - it was definitely cancer that it had, so that's probably why they abandoned it. It had surgery the other day but I haven't heard yet how it went. I'll keep you posted! Great video man.
Thanks for the update
This makes me angry. A dog that friendly must of been in a home that someone loved her. How could someone abandon a loyal, loving dog? Really sad and angry.
Hopefully the dog makes it and lives out his days comfortably
Question: why do most log-burners in cabins have those fans on top of them? To circulate the hot air?
@@suewarman9287 yes
Grew up in an old farm house and we’d done the same. Ended up putting a piece of 3or 4” pipe on top of the fan so it was pulling warmer air from by the ceiling rather than the floor. And to be clear Mike, when I offer suggestions or experiences I’ve had, I’m only offering them to help or add to your existing ideas. Certainly not criticizing anything you do or your ideas. U know really like your channel a lot ! Take care
I look forward to watching your videos! They offer variety and they are informative and entertaining. Keep it up 👍
Glad you like them!
Thank you Mike for the tutorial on keeping the pipes from being frozen. Always enjoy the channel and looking forward to the next update. Stay safe! Peace!!
No problem Peter, thank you you too!
Your honesty is honestly the funniest humor. I get great joy from your channel bud. Keep it up. Good work.
So happy for you and Sarah! God bless you!
When you showed the clip of your old video it triggered a memory of when the magic hammer told you “get a haircut you hippy” lol
😂
Always so happy to see another video up on your channel.
So true about learning a skill during COVID. Glad you mentioned skill share.
My pleasure!
Ya, Sarah is coming back. You’re great but we love Sarah too.
Almost to 60,000 subs. Congrats! And yes, I found you and became a sub because of the cooling radiator fan video. Watched you and then decided to build a cabin at my hunting property.
It's crazy to me that I'm almost at 60K. I hope you have been enjoying building your cabin.
That's quite an awesome 👌 idea! I saw where someone hooked up something similar in their pump house when they were worried about the pipes freezing. They've had no problem with their setup in northern Idaho. Great job & video, Mike!!
Thanks Darlene glad to hear it worked!
Noctua makes the best small fans, thanks for not cheaping out too badly. I like their 12v Industrial 140mm 3,000 RPM fans myself. They're loud but I have room specifically for air cooled systems and nobody, not even dogs can hear them.
I really love their fans! Very high quality I use one of theirs with their PWM controller to exhaust my cooking stove and it works great.
i remember that video it was a little loud for sure but you fixed that problem. great video and hope it works to keep the water going. have a great day as well
Skillshare ROCKS!! I got my Membership from your last video from them. I have taken Wild Rabbit Productions, Aerial Cinematography Production & Drones class. Helped me get the skills to fly and shoot some killer videos. Right now I am Drone Surveying
Guilherme Braghirolli class. SO SO happy to have found them. All thanks to you!! Thanks so much brother. God Bless.
Hey Bobby, nice man, I just started another drone course. glad you are enjoying the classes.
The shots at the start are really nice the house is looking really good..
I love the coat hooks inside by your front door. Nice touch.
Another great update, Mike. Thanks
You bet, my pleasure Doug
Keep up the nice work, you're doing a wonderful job. Stay safe, be careful, take it easy and keep warm and dry.
Thank you, I will
Check out The Boss of the Swamp channel. He has a cabin in New Hampshire. He uses bubble foil wrap to insulate under the cabin. The mice don't bother it and it retains the heat amazingly well for super cheap.
Yea I've seen those, I might use that for the rest of my floor.
@@50Acres GREAT IDEA!!! I love the Boss of the camp especially his song at the end about his dog named Frankie lolol.
Good solution Mike, thanks for sharing.
Any time Alex!
👍 Danke fürs Hochladen!
👍 Thanks for uploading!
I love all your ideas, your very creative and thank you for sharing them.
Thank you!
Enjoyed the show
Your videos are nice,clean love the projects you do God Bless
Thank you! You too!
So many cool little gadgets to help things move along. Well done. And I do remember watching that loft fan video. I didn’t think it was a train wreck!
Haha thanks Justin! It was a good video but when it took off mostly people were focused on the noise!
Good advice. Thanks
You bet!
Great work.
"Act like an idiot, and everyone loves train wreck..." My wife says I went viral a long time ago lol.
*LOL*
Good job there with the insulation, and jigging up the monitor system, ,it's coming along nicely.
Thanks 👍
Can we get some thumbs up for Mike bringing back the beard and long hair?!?!?
Thanks for the update on the dog. I’m sure there are lots of people that are interested in adopting it. Too bad you’re not closer or I’d consider it. My wife and I just moved to 10 acres in central Minnesota and have considered adopting older dogs that need a place to live out their lives. We lost our 12 year old lab back in May and have been dog-less since then. I enjoy your videos and your inventiveness on solving problems. Hopefully your fan will keep the crawl space warm enough to use the cabin year round. God bless.
I think it will find a good home, sadly she does have cancer. we're not sure if it is treatable yet. Glad you like. the videos Greg.
Hey Mike. That was very useful information. Thanks for sharing. Sarah will be happy. I admire that you are so very adept at wiring. It really gets all mixed up inside my brain but I like trying to learn. Next Month I will be attempting to build a Gothic Arch Greenhouse on my property and if that goes well, a Utility Shed. I am preparing the garden, fruit trees and nut trees, then next year, we will begin the house. Have a great week.
Hey Billy sounds like you are doing all the fun projects I want to move on to!
That was a great idea, good work🎆
Thank you! 😊
Thank you for the video
great job !
Love your innovation!
Thank you!
I agree about getting the kitchen cabinets done. The kitchen is gorgeous already - finishing those cabinets will be the piece de resistance!!
Another great idea and project, till next time Mike, take care and remain well :)
Thanks, you too!
Always enjoyable.
Interesting way of geting heat below the cain. I like that it worked! My old rental had a carbon monixide vent in the wash room. When it was closed the heating bill went up. Translating that to a cabin I fugure a "cold" well to the cabin will also work to basically preheat the p-traps and batteries. Using a diesel cab heater in the lower space I am using the exhaust pipe to preheat the space and the fresh air is pulled from the cld space and floated up. Not the right way to skin the cat but another way to look at it. Love the 24V dc Propane heater installed!
Yea this actually works quite well and since I have a thermometer with a temp sensor sitting down there I am constantly checking it. On all but the coldest nights it stays above freezing even without the fan on.
AWESOME VIDEO
good idea, stay safe...
Thanks, you too!
Hi Mike. The batteries in the thermostat are to close the contacts of the built in relay and illuminate the screen only. That's why when the batteries die the heat doesn't work. I've had to fix the plumbing in houses that froze because of batteries. And yes, R is power, W is heat, Y is cooling, G is the blower in a typical HVAC system.
We used to replace those batteries once a year to avoid that but nowadays the thermostats have full blown LCD color displays and have no batteries, they run off the mains and the whole house UPS and then the generator during an outage. Kind of obviates the batteries but in return one probably has to replace the thermostat more often. IDC though, it shows all kinds of cool stuff about the air conditioners and the furnaces in the house, how fast the furnace fans are moving, how many cfm they're moving, and the static pressure they experience. It also shows some other stuff and keeps up with 2 week and lifetime hours and cycles on components.
@@hithere7382 I agree, "the wired for power but communicate wirelessly" thermostats are very nice and have many features but I was referring to the basic wired, non communicating thermostat like the one Mike had in the vidio. It's probably a Honeywell 4110 or 5110 (non programmable), it needs a minimum of 4 wires for heat and cool with batteries, 5 wires and it won't need the batteries.
Short and sweet... nice.
Thanks!
Quality workmanship of the cabin is obvious.
Thank you!
Well Mike your a knowledgeable man very smart you know how to do lots of stuff im good at electrical but not good at timber work have done some but im just not good i like Kyle s Cabin to he is good
Thanks 👍 Kriss, I go slow and take my time and keep trying if it doesn't work out.
Cool for Sean. I know him from MBF channel.
I was cracking up for the bleeped words. Sometimes you got to swear to make sh*t work.
they definitely help!
history of swearing.....
Wasnt looking for this but its on my list of 2 dos
Interesting. Good luck from our off-grid homestead to yours!
Thanks, good luck to you too!
Mike your videos are interesting.👍👍
Thanks 👍
I absolutely love this, kind of brilliant really. Just bouncing off your concept and design, it gives me a bunch of ideas on how I might tweak it for my own cabin. I might use PVC pipes and then extend the pipe through the wall up to the peak or as high as I could get it without it showing. You could use, say a 2” pipe but then add a small section of larger pvc so you can house the fan in the pipe and then revert back to the smaller pipe as it extends further up the wall. In theory, by using the pvc pipe you’re able to funnel the “hotter” air from higher up in the building and push that down into your little insulated crawl space. This might also work during the summer months by pulling the coolest air from the ground and in the insulated crawl space as you’d assume it would be even cooler, so in principle the fan could be reversed and pull the cold air up into the cabin pushing towards the peak and since cool air drops it would help cool the cabin.
By using the pvc it might help the fan last longer as it’s not on the ground picking up and sucking all of the dirt, dust, lint, and grime from the floor as well as the moisture from them the shower and bathroom. You could also add some control and up the efficiency by adding maybe a make shift “valve” or seal much like a damper, so that way you can open and close it inside the pipe. So when you don’t want a hole in the building or don’t want to run the fan you can simply close the “valve” and it seals it off? Just thinking out loud honestly. I also like the idea of adding a return air exchange to recirculate the air. I think I would add one of those cheap little Wi-Fi or “smart” Chinese thermostats so I can control it w my phone, that way if necessary I can cut the fan on or off, outside of the thermostat’s settings or just in case there’s something going on w my battery or panels. I’d probably also add a cheap little thermometer inside the insulated crawl space which would allow you to view the temp, humidity, carbon monoxide etc all on my phone so in case the thermostat was broken or I’m worried something isn’t working I know what’s happening and can override the thermostat and turn it on or off, plus it’s nice to know what the temp is where the plumbing is.
I have a Govee thermometer in my little TH cabin where my lithium batteries are, I can set an alert at a certain temp, humidity or other perimeters and it will notify me on my phone as well as make a sound on the little gadget. There’s a bunch of little neat things you can do w it and it’s cheap, like ridiculously cheap.
What a great video and such a smart idea. And to be 💯 it’s something I would have NEVER thought of, so TY. I had been looking at using a 12v radiant heating pad they use in chicken coups to heat the small section of piping where my water comes in from an IBC tote into a 2’ x 4’ exterior utility shed that is insulated with 1” foam, it that holds my 12v pump, accumulator, on demand tankless water heater and water filters. I had also thought about possibly using one of those 12v self contained Chinese diesel heater’s and having the exhaust pipe go through and out the utility “shed” to utilize the heat that comes off that exhaust pipe on it’s way out of the “utility shed”. None of the exhaust would be let in to the utility box but rather just running through it and then is exhausted further outside of the little box. This would also allow me to have minimum holes in random areas of my tiny cabin. I have to say I really like your idea better and might incorporate this in another project I have coming up. So TY again good sir!
Thank you! I’m glad you found it clever. I’ve actually been planning to use a similar concept to solve the issue of our loft becoming uncomfortably hot in the winter.
Mike thank you I really enjoy your channel keep up the excellent content by the way did you ever give the dimensions of the cabin
Thanks Steve, I can't remember, the main room is 14 feet by 20 feet, the utility room is 6 feet by 14 feet, the bedroom is 8 feet by 10 feet and the little covered porch on back is 6x6.
Good idea Mike, putting the return air would definitely be wise. Making a return hole with a pvc pipe in it extending to 6” above the ground away from the fan hole would be better.I did a similar thing with my garage to my boiler room.the cabin looks awesome from the drone
Thanks Jason, I’m about to get started on this again so hopefully we can test it out soon and put in the return air path.
Great timing for this video..maybe you heard a Polar Vortex is headed your way! I've heard good things about Skillshare, glad they are onboard with you.
Looking forward to trying it out in some extreme cold temperatures! I have enjoyed skillshare, i like collecting skills!.
Oh man, that wood grain in that table top is really something.
look at the previous build vlogs & checkout the live edge mantel..
I didn’t read all the comments so if this has been addressed already this is a another comment about it but at the end of the video you mentioned a return air path. I would highly encourage you to do that as creating a negative pressure in the cabin is not gonna help with the drafting of the woodstove. Even a slight de-pressurization as a fire goes out creates the potential for carbon monoxide. Re-burning the products of combustion is a real concern. I like watching your videos I don’t wanna see them come to an abrupt end. And thanks for wrapping those extension cords properly, I think you know what I mean.
The big fan is how I found your channel :-)
I wasn’t quite sure that the insulation would keep the pipes from freezing but I think that fan is going to do wonders. Good job
We used to use 100 watt light bulbs in our lift station control panels to keep the start and run capacitors from freezing . Even did this with some water lines too.
Just a reminder to check digital read out on the thermostat occasionally . With cold weather the battery will weaken & needs to be replaced. Lithium batteries are best . ( talking from what happened to me ). Enjoy what your doing. Thanks for sharing. 👍👍😊
Yea good point!
Just a thought here, if the wood stove isn't lit to keep the cabin warm, and the fan turns on (unless you have the power completely off which things will freeze up without any heat or air movement), the fan will come on and blow only cold cabin air down into the crawl space. Things will still freeze then won't they? Just a thought. And thanks for the update on the stray dog, it's awful to think that someone would dump and older dog off on the road just because it has cancer and is old. That person should be del with! That is if they did indeed dump the dog, if the dog escaped then that's a different story. Glad your making the wife happy by getting her some running water and cabinet doors. Much love from So.Cal.💟
We will still need to winterize the cabin when we are gone this is just for when we are using it in the winter. We don't plan to keep it heated full time. The dog did have cancer, she went to the vet Thursday.
Thank you for clearing that up. BTW the cabin's looking really awesome! You've come a long way. I don't think I would of taken all the precise care that you have. I get antsy and just want it done, I'd rush things. So kudos for taking your time and doing it slowly the way you really want it.
you know, its great how you solve these problems! who would think of using a computer fan to help set the climate under the cabin?! thats brilliant! certainly not what i thought you were going to do! 😁
a teeny little side thought... condensation during summer, will that be a problem?
we used to have a kids program over here in the 70s called the wombles, they found stuff and made it into new stuff, im thinking your reminding me of them 😊 (btw thats way cool!) you take things (pc fan for example) and use em for something different! damn that is bril!
of course, if you want to think a bit more "modern" your a macgiver/a-team! 😁
Nice video! I heard two bleeps and was worried you might lose your family friendly status. haha. In Ohio, we had a small farmhouse in Somerset, Ohio. The winters when I was a kid were pretty bad. People don't understand country life and what you have to do to make things work. For now, you closed off that area under the cabin. When I was a kid, we'd also put bales of straw up against the foundation to keep the ice cold air from coming in.(One one side of the house). It actually worked. When you are poor, you learn to adapt and make do with what you have. I think most people will agree, going through hard times just makes you stronger as you age in life. We've been there, done that and can pass along knowledge along the way.
Like your attic fan video. It was creative and showed people how to have something affordable that worked on solar power. I showed a few friends that and they were impressed. So people not only watch, they learn. One guy I know uses his solar on a grow tent. He starts the seeds in there and the plants get big enough to transplant or even to continue growing so he can use them in winter. (basil).
Ha, can't be corrupting the youth now can we! I have seen the hay work first hand, it can even prevent the ground from freezing. It's pretty amazing what a bit of insulation will do. Glad you liked the attic fan video, and thanks for showing it to your friends. It still works pretty good and it's nice now that its automated. I would love to eventually make a homemade dehumidifier. Now that I have the excavator I can trench for ground source cooling some day.
@@50Acres Ground source cooling -- now that is something of interest. We do not have A/C at our cabin because summers are cool in the mountains but August gets pretty warm. We had an unusual amount of rain making it necessary for us to purchase a dehumidifier. With windows closed, it got quite uncomfortable especially with the heat produced by the dehumidifier.
Nice mittens!
Thanks 👍
You could also bore a vertical hole in the soil maybe 20 or 30 ft deep and install a geo-thermal water-pipe loop (insulate the top 3 or 4 ft of the hole),
I saw that attic fan install video. Did not know it was so popular. Good for you! I though about it but did not want to say anything. "Minnesota Nice" ya know.... :-) Did Kyle say anything? Probably not. I enjoy your videos. Take care.
Yea that one really took off, I'd say half the subs on this channel found this through that video. Didn't hear anything from Kyle's, but kinda wanted to give it to a smaller channel anyway.
Thanks for sharing a very informative video 📹 👍 😊👍💕💕💕
Thanks for watching Vivian!!
@@50Acres you are welcome 😊!
Really cool. Great idea with the thermostat. I wonder if you could just put one or two heat bulbs near the pipes for the heat source, with the thermostat switch. I wonder if your solar would power them.
The heat bulbs would be great but on a cloudy day or night time I’d run out of power.
The thermostats prior to the 1970's were on/off switches. Modern digital thermostats do exactly the same thing, they're on/off switches - so your relay needed a power source to work.
I would have like to use an older Tstat if I had one lying around.
Dang I am sooooo confused red, black, yellow tape holy cow!!! Which way does it go....up, down and all around. Look mom the fan is blowing.....BACKWARDS LOLOLOL This is I think your funniest video I have seen I think? God's blessings to you and GREAT J O B!!!
I guess this may work in a somewhat warmer temperatures. We have lows down to -40°, and unless you were pumping hot air into that crawl space, it would freeze solid. We use heat tape with thick insulation around it in SW Wisconsin. Heat tape is pretty cheap and it works, but if your climate will allow this this will work as well 😊
This only works when we are present and heating the cabin. When we are gone we will still have to winterize the cabin.
Is the cabin always warm? from my understanding it is only used/heated like one ish day a week? If so then a fan alone probably won't be enough, but I'm unsure of the current usage of the cabin, or what the future usage will be.
Almost forgot to ask have you looked into getting the spring/seep tapped? Getting a constant flow of water into the crawl space from the spring would keep the entire area warm along with giving you an unlimited supply of water even if you still wanted to filter the drinking water. Would want a trailer you could pull with the mini for that project simply for getting the gravel needed for the tapping project as if it is a spring you want to fill the area with gravel and if it is a seep you want to setup french drains to capture and funnel to the spring box.
Then again a trailer you can pull with the mini would also be useful for rock collecting and other projects around the property.
Capturing/tapping the spring is needed to know the pipe sizes you need as you don't want to oversize the pipes for that extra costs just like you don't want to undersize them and restrict the flow to the pond.
Don't dwell on the negative comments bro. Anytime you go public you are going to get trolled. Keep up the good work. G'Day from Australia ;)
I appreciate that
Another way to prevent frozen pipes is building a cabin in Florida...
I hear it's beautiful there!
@@50Acres lol ...
Good one!
Its beautiful..except for the whole summer and hurricane season.
This video in Florida would be replaced with videos on how to keep roaches and bugs out of a cabin. Any place has it's poison.
For your return air you could add another fan blowing into the cabin. I did something like that in my closet where I have my internet, security and NVR devices. One computer fan blowing hot air out and another one blowing cool air into the closet. My issue was getting the heat out and cooling down the space. In your case, the heat rising through the floor return vent maybe enough for the air movement. If not, then maybe you could add another fan to aid in the air movement. Just a thought.
That’s a good idea. I can drive it off the same relay too
Love the white washed, I even did the white washed on my Cedar shingles on the outside.
You could route your battery cooling fan/pipe down to the crawl space, too.
I actually ended up taking that fan and using it for this project
Awesome 👌 😀👍
Thanks 🤗
Might get more airflow or volume with a little box under the fan. Maybe even funnel shaped?
Great video Mike! That cabin of yours and wife) is really cool. I'm just glad you guys can use it and get away of all the crazy things in the world. I had an old woman who told me she thought the world was all going to ____.She also told me that she thought my hair was so beautiful. Well I don't know about that but my hair is almost to my waist. I usually wear it in a ponytail. I think she was lonely and I asked her if she had a merry christmas! She told me she couldn't have family ,because of covid-19.I wished her well and she also gave me her phone number. I called her and she was a sweet lady and told me she would love to cook a special seafood and I told her she didn't have to but yes It was a dinner date. I don't know much about a whole lot of things but that lady was great person. She said she fought and beat all kinds of diseases I didn't want to ask her age but that goes to show you that just liking my hair made my year! And when this mess goes away I'll have supper with her and Maybe I can cook a meal for her. We will always be friends and I like talking to her. You don't meet many people like that , but she'll be a better person. And to me she's already made me a great person.
Hey thanks David, thats nice that you were able to meet someone and make a friend during the pandemic.
Good idea too keep the pipes from freezing.
Thanks Josh
This is a great idea. Do you have any kind of heat in the cabin when there's no fire or does it just stay warm enough inside?
I have a propane heater also. We will still winterize it when we are gone, but now at least we can use the water when we are there in the winter.
@@50Acres I would think hard about not putting the air back into the cabin but send it outside instead. The reason is that there is always mold in a crawl space to think about, and you don't want to allow a direct path for mold to enter the cabin. Love your videos. We have a cabin in the NC mountains similar in climate except it's about 10 degrees warmer. We are blessed with having a walk-in basement at the cabin but still winterize when we are gone but fortunately no problems using the water while there.
Does the propane heater stay on when you are away on low? Otherwise isn't that fan doing very little?
@@BobHannent it won’t do anything if we are not there burning the wood stove. There has to be a heat source going. We will still winterize when we are gone, this is just for while we are there.
Pipe insulation with heat tape tied into your solar panel would be very effective from retired HVAC, plumbing & electrical guy.
Love the drone footage.Did you get that tiger picture yet?🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯💙💙💙
Did you see my tiger T shirt? I think I wore it in a video when I built the outdoor shower!
Thermostats: R and W connections. Usually red and white wire but the way I remember it is Ready for Winter (R&W). Do your future plans include hot water and if so are you looking at on demand heaters or RV style hot water heaters? Also, I forgot to tell you I ordered the same Brunt boots and used your promo code. Been using them for a month and a half and I’m very pleased with them.
Hey thanks Anthony, I think I am going to use a on demand one. I really want one that's propane and 24 volt DC but cant seem to find one. Glad you mentioned the boots, I want to follow up on them in a video. I love mine also, so much that I bought another pair and paid for them out of my own pocket. I need to remember to follow up on them in an upcoming video.
@@50Acres most DC powered on demand heaters use 12 volt. You could always use a step down transformer to convert 24 to 12 just for that particular heater. All your wiring would be the same. Just a thought. Keep up the great videos man. Everything is looking great and with the state of the world these days, you seem to have your own oasis.
Nice job, would have been nice to use a dump load from excess solar to a small heater and fan ( 500 watt ceramic ) when you aren't there heating the cabin as well of your axial fan setup.
Did this for my ice fishing hut, got tired of cracked pump housings and split pex pipe, having a backup is great piece of mind.
Cheaper too, diaphragm pumps are expensive.
Cheers from Ottawa Ontario
PS. can't put the shack on the ice yet with only 8 inches of ice so far in this region, so it's drinking in the garage with the boys for now !
A dump load would be really nice, I’ve explored doing that for hot water heating but it’s actually quite complex to make it happen with the solar charge controllers I’m currently using.
Hope this works great for you. Have great week.
Thank you! You too!
"Everyone love a train wreck".....that was funny.
Great project Mike! that cabin is so good! you are making such good work! and god, that old video with your long hair, who said HUNK?? super hunk!! Handsome as ever! Cheers from Argentina. Fede
Thanks 👍
Might want to consider conduit for wires that are outside. Rodents really love to chew on wire insulation.
You're probably going to have to take the fan up periodically to clean the screen out from dust and stuff. idk if you should have caulked it. or maybe stapled the screen on the other side?. Very ingenious way of heating your plumbing though. :)
You can also add a fan guard to the inlet. Keep spare fans on hand.
Gotta keep your 'banker' happy - happy wife, happy everything. 😁👍🖖
You got that right!
@@50Acres 🤣😂🤣
God Bless you
Hot air rises, using that computer fan is clever but you have the fan down on floor level where air temperature is the coldest. Maybe connect a 6 ft pvc pipe to the hole in floor and the fan at top of pipe this way you are supplying warmer air to the space under house. I bet it works. Just a suggestion. GOOD LUCK GUYS, Vinny 🇺🇸
Thanks Vinny, we'll keep experimenting with this and see what works!
The Oracle is all wise. Best to keep her happy.😁
She knows and sees all!!😂😂😂
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I just built a cabin by myself on 10 acres over the last year, also on piers. I'm just finishing up wiring. For testing purposes, do you see any problems if I go from my vehicle battery, to 200w inverter, to extension cord with cut end in a 15A breaker to backfeed main panel powering a single phase so I can test all the circuits on that phase?
For testing purposes that would probably work fine. Or you could use a multimeter and test for continuity. If you search that I’m sure a lot of good videos will pop up.