2009-01-30

Exciting Ice Documentary

This is some footage I just shot with a nifty little Flip camera my parents got us for our civil anniversary. It shows my downstairs furnace exhaust and the condensation problem that tripped a pressure sensor and deprived us of heat a few weeks ago. It really builds up these huge ramps of ice! Clearly the snow-covered bucket of dirt is badly misplaced under that PVC.

Líle makes a brief guest appearance in the lower left corner of the footage. She's star material!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

What a bargain--buy a furnace, get an ice machine at no additional cost!

The exhaust is too wet because the furnace is recirculating its own water vapor. The inlet is too close to the exhaust. If you can get more separation (12" is good, 18" is better, with the exhaust higher than the intake) it will stop doing that.