Our heat pump didn’t really kick in the resistive auxiliary heat until temps were well below 0°F, but humidity also plays into that. It wasn’t ever running the resistive heat exclusively.
If sized correctly, heat pumps also don’t really like setbacks in the winter. Just set the thermostat to whatever and leave it – don’t have it cool down at night and warm back up in the morning.
/c/flashlight sends its regards
If you own anything with “white” LEDs, I have some bad news for you…
7? Psh.
Try 40.
No but seriously, it’s addictive. One moment you’re like “I just need a good flashlight” and the next you’re telling somebody how the flashlight they got from Lowes has terrible tint and CRI compared to your hand-assembled copper and titanium pixel camo Emisar D4v2 with dedomed Nichia 519As you got for like $120 from a Chinese guy named Hank.
In Iowa, at least, the state had a pre-existing fiber network that got expanded to a shit-ton of rural communities and local (often municipal) ISPs. It’s more expensive than what you’d get in the cities, but much better bang for buck than Starlink.
The only people still struggling to get service are those who live way, way outside those communities – the kind of people for whom “neighbor” means somebody who lives a significant fraction of a mile away. And, outside of comfortably wealthy individuals, those people are a dying breed, at least in Iowa.
If Iowa of all places can pull something like that off, I figure it’s not out of reach of any state (or nation, for that matter) whose inhabitants give a nano-fuck about access to technology.
This is the comic Salvatore based his skit on.
Wait, there’s a 3000k SFT-40?
This is fascinating stuff! Now I kinda wanna see one of us build it…
As we’ve seen over the past decade (well, past few decades, tbh), changing the word only moves the objectionable meaning onto the new word. The goal is to address the meaning, but it feels like so much energy is being spent on addressing the words themselves that the meaning never gets dealt with…
…which I guess is understandable for those who have given up hope of the meaning being addressed, but then why spend the effort on the word?
Talks about Perseverance.
Image is of Spirit or Opportunity.
It’s definitely unique in my collection, that’s for sure.
You’ve taken your first steps into a larger brighter world.
…well shit, now I’ve gotta try that.
For channel mixing (e.g. CCT shift), it’s actually kinda nice. For channel switching, though, you’re absolutely right. It’d be nice if it were at least an option.
Out of curiosity, what’s the current hardware?
We also use it for engine displacement.