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Is your house smarter than you? In some ways, it probably already is, and building technology is developing all the time to improve on that intelligence. Your house is a system, and all the parts work together. In fact, many or most of its parts already work without your even knowing how they do it. Energy costs more during peak times, but consumers arent aware of how much they use during the expensive times since their usage is typically calculated on a monthly basis. A smart meter shows actual current usage real time information about the price of electricity so you can talk to and program your house based on what you know. Its long overdue that we have a meter that helps consumers manage their energy consumption. But for a house to be really smart, I think we need to do more. We need to make more intelligent choices about where we are getting that energy in the first place. A smart meter is (so far) all about tracking energy consumption from the grid. What if you incorporated solar or wind technology to help offset what you use from the grid? What if your house was smart enough to know when electricity was costing you more, and could choose instead to use backup power stored in batteries? What if it could take advantage of the higher peak prices of power to sell it back to the grid in effect making you money? Now thats a smart house. Vancouver
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Furnace blower seems to run a lot after installing programable thermostats?
I replaced the old dial mercury thermostats in my house with programble ones, i have the new thermostats set at 65' but my furnace blower seems to run about every 20-30mins for about 5-10mins, and my house temp is around 70-75 is this normal or should i have a professional check my install of the new thermostats?
That is probably normal. With a digital thermostat, the setpoint is more accurate therefore you have more cycles for shorter periods of time. The old mechanical type allowed huge temperature swings so the unit would come on less often but run longer. For more info, check out the thermostat page at my source.
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