Small temp swings or set heater higher?

[Funky_Fish14]

Brett - If there is no switch on your thermostat, check around the actual furnace unit itself. It may or may not be labelled, but usually there should be a switch for the fan by the furnace unit.
HTH.

Chris

[andestang]

Yes your furnace or thermostat should hace something that says "summer or fan only" . I've always installed one of those digital furnace control thermostats.They have the fan only feature control. Lots to choose from now and not to pricey (probably because of all the push for eco friendly and power saving).

[lastlight]

I have good news...all good news =)

Today was not cheap but cheaper than a chiller and my whole house is cooler.

For starters I went to Rona and bought some of this energy saver window film for my kitchen and patio windows on the back of the house. You're supposed to follow their directions and use some special spray, their squeegee blah blah blah. I tossed it up and cursed the whole time and tried my best to squeeze bubbles out. It is pretty ugly but my blinds and drapes hide the marble-like texture my windows now have haha.

So I wasn't able to get it up before the sun hit and still my living room has got no hotter than 23 today. Now when i *do* turn my livingroom AC on for just a bit the hot kitchen does not counter-act the cooling effect either. I dropped it to 22.5 in a few minutes before wife said **** off.

I also installed the 4-fan Azoo unit.



The nylon screws interfered with my skimmer cup and I was pretty ****ed it wouldn't fit. Then I realized the adjustable mounts and symetrical on both sides so I swapped them so the screws are outside the tank not inside. Fits great.

So the bottom line is I am a rock-star now and I've set my controller to 79 and it is staying there no problem. The fan has kicked on twice today and each time it does it's on maybe 2 or 3 minutes. I'm hoping with the window film up I can battle the even hotter days.

Yeehaw.

[Funky_Fish14]

Awesome Brett, good to hear!

Cheers,

Chris

[Canadian]

Hey Brett,

This is off topic, but did you make the stand you have for your light fixture or did it come with it? We just bought a new place and I'm not really keen to hang the light from the ceiling in this place where the tank is located so I'm looking to make a light hanging bracket out of electrical conduit and bend it with a pipe bender.

[lastlight]

Hey no worries. That is the stock pendant arm for the solana. It rotates nicely to either side, is height adjustable and has a twist lock to maintain height.