Deal on shop heat, and cooling


Tom King

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I was just out looking at this unit.  It's Big.  I think it's about 4 feet tall, and 4x5 feet width, and length.  The fan motor is a 1-1/2hp Baldor.

Change of plan on the wiring.  I can buy 100 amp aluminum service entrance underground wire for about the same thing as no. 6 UF, so will put another 100 amp subpanel next to it, and use the breaker to it as the nearby cutoff.  Then I can pull other stuff out of this box, if I need to.  There was a power pole here already, about 100 feet from the building, with a 200 amp service on it, that only feeds a 100 amp subpanel to that building.

Right now, the plan is to build a small deck for it, and let it blow right into the building about 5 feet high.  That will keep it from taking wall space inside.  I'll run a return duct up high.  That'll make it a little trouble to change filters, but it won't be used That much anyway, and will be right beside where I store all the ladders anyway. 

The building is 24x40, with 12' walls, but the roof has a strange gambrel framing, under the gable framing that lets me raise a full sized dump truck bed inside-not sure of the height of the high part.

I had quit doing fiberglass boat work, when a tornado destroyed my shop for that in 1988.  I never wanted to do fiberglass work again, without a really strong air conditioner.  Cool it down to 65, and you have all the time in the world.  Then raise it to normal, and let it kick.

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