00:00:01.550 hi everybody this video is a follow-up 00:00:04.73000:00:04.740 video from my description of my 00:00:08.05900:00:08.069 mini-split system that we installed when 00:00:10.22000:00:10.230 I shot the original video it was during 00:00:12.20000:00:12.210 the summertime and we talked a little 00:00:14.39000:00:14.400 bit about air conditioning and that it 00:00:16.16000:00:16.170 actually can do heating but now that we 00:00:18.98000:00:18.990 are in the winter season in Michigan I 00:00:21.29000:00:21.300 thought I would do another follow-up 00:00:22.73000:00:22.740 video to answer one of the questions 00:00:24.89000:00:24.900 that everybody keeps asking is how much 00:00:26.83900:00:26.849 does it actually cost to run especially 00:00:29.02900:00:29.039 to heat the house and so one of the 00:00:32.47900:00:32.489 things that I did was I wrote a blog 00:00:34.19000:00:34.200 post on Matt knows dot-com that 00:00:37.84000:00:37.850 describes the comparison of fuel costs 00:00:42.44000:00:42.450 when you're considering switching fuels 00:00:44.75000:00:44.760 from natural gas to electricity which is 00:00:47.93000:00:47.940 what a lot of people are going to be 00:00:49.25000:00:49.260 doing with a heat pump or from propane 00:00:52.52000:00:52.530 like I'm using in my boiler to 00:00:54.56000:00:54.570 electricity in a heat pump or electric 00:00:56.95900:00:56.969 resistance and the most common way to do 00:01:00.20000:01:00.210 that comparison is in the cost per 00:01:02.54000:01:02.550 million BTUs because it's an equalizing 00:01:06.17000:01:06.180 factor that doesn't matter then how 00:01:08.57000:01:08.580 efficient your house is or what climate 00:01:10.52000:01:10.530 you're in the heating cost per million 00:01:13.07000:01:13.080 BTUs is what we want to make those 00:01:15.20000:01:15.210 comparisons based on and for my house 00:01:18.05000:01:18.060 the comparison happened to be 00:01:19.82000:01:19.830 electricity at about 12 and 1/2 cents a 00:01:22.37000:01:22.380 kilowatt hour versus propane at about $2 00:01:27.17000:01:27.180 per gallon and my boiler is 82% 00:01:29.89900:01:29.909 efficient and right now in Michigan I've 00:01:33.23000:01:33.240 got my thermometer here that shows us 00:01:35.33000:01:35.340 what the outside temperature is it says 00:01:37.85000:01:37.860 it's 35 right now the sun is shining 00:01:40.01000:01:40.020 just a little bit on where this 00:01:41.71900:01:41.729 thermometer is and it's so it's really 00:01:45.59000:01:45.600 old I think only about 31 or 32 degrees 00:01:47.48000:01:47.490 outside indoor temp this says 67 point 4 00:01:51.85900:01:51.869 it's because I'm in my office and I have 00:01:54.02000:01:54.030 the door closed right now but the house 00:01:55.58000:01:55.590 is actually at about 69 degrees and so 00:02:00.44000:02:00.450 one of the things that I did to actually 00:02:03.20000:02:03.210 monitor the actual electric use of my 00:02:06.41000:02:06.420 heat pump system is I hooked my whole 00:02:08.83900:02:08.849 house energy monitor up to it 00:02:11.51000:02:11.520 I have this device that's been sitting 00:02:13.61000:02:13.620 on my desk for a long time now it's it's 00:02:15.77000:02:15.780 just back in the corner and runs and I 00:02:18.71000:02:18.720 had this hooked up so that it would 00:02:20.30000:02:20.310 monitor the energy use of the whole 00:02:22.04000:02:22.050 house the electricity use and I decided 00:02:25.04000:02:25.050 that I wanted to monitor just the 00:02:26.63000:02:26.640 electric use of the heat pump system to 00:02:28.82000:02:28.830 see really how much electricity it was 00:02:30.98000:02:30.990 using and right at this particular 00:02:33.59000:02:33.600 second and it updates about every three 00:02:35.57000:02:35.580 seconds it's using one point four five 00:02:38.54000:02:38.550 kilowatts which equates to four dollars 00:02:41.45000:02:41.460 and eighty five cents per day a hundred 00:02:43.97000:02:43.980 and forty six dollars per month and 00:02:46.73000:02:46.740 that's keeping again from 30-something 00:02:50.12000:02:50.130 degrees outside to almost seventy 00:02:52.40000:02:52.410 degrees inside at a hundred and forty 00:02:55.01000:02:55.020 seven hundred and fifty dollars a month 00:02:56.39000:02:56.400 so that's the cost to run this this 00:03:00.17000:03:00.180 electric heat pump and these these 00:03:02.96000:03:02.970 energy monitoring devices you know there 00:03:04.55000:03:04.560 are only about a hundred to two hundred 00:03:06.23000:03:06.240 dollars this one was two hundred dollars 00:03:08.51000:03:08.520 I'll put a link down in the description 00:03:10.46000:03:10.470 to one the FRG model there's a black & 00:03:14.27000:03:14.280 decker model you can find them for for 00:03:16.52000:03:16.530 about a hundred bucks they're really 00:03:17.90000:03:17.910 simple to install you put two little 00:03:20.06000:03:20.070 clips on the power feeds two they come 00:03:22.49000:03:22.500 in to your electric box you don't have 00:03:24.29000:03:24.300 to be an electrician to install them if 00:03:27.19900:03:27.209 you're afraid of your electric box then 00:03:29.12000:03:29.130 maybe you'll want to have somebody else 00:03:30.89000:03:30.900 do it for you but you can also instead 00:03:33.02000:03:33.030 of monitoring the whole house you can 00:03:34.13000:03:34.140 monitor an individual appliance and let 00:03:36.38000:03:36.390 it run and this is I've had this hooked 00:03:38.06000:03:38.070 up this way for about a week and one of 00:03:40.55000:03:40.560 the things that I discovered when I plug 00:03:43.43000:03:43.440 this into my heat pump system is that 00:03:46.67000:03:46.680 even when the heat pump is not running 00:03:49.27000:03:49.280 it's using a hundred and sixty-four 00:03:51.80000:03:51.810 watts which is a lot of electricity and 00:03:54.65000:03:54.660 I emailed Fujitsu to ask them why this 00:03:58.73000:03:58.740 thing has such a big ghost load or 00:04:01.10000:04:01.110 vampire load as they sometimes call it 00:04:03.19900:04:03.209 and they sent me back some hocus pocus 00:04:05.81000:04:05.820 thing about power factor that really 00:04:07.69900:04:07.709 doesn't have any effect on anything and 00:04:09.56000:04:09.570 so basically the things when they're 00:04:12.32000:04:12.330 sitting there waiting for us to turn 00:04:14.21000:04:14.220 them on with the remote control 00:04:15.38000:04:15.390 like a TV or anything else it's using 00:04:17.78000:04:17.790 electricity but it's using a little more 00:04:19.46000:04:19.470 than I'd like it to one hundred and 00:04:20.78000:04:20.790 sixty-four watts equates to about 00:04:23.21000:04:23.220 fifteen bucks a month 00:04:24.84000:04:24.850 when it's just sitting there idle so one 00:04:26.85000:04:26.860 of the things that I'm going to do is to 00:04:28.44000:04:28.450 put a switch in up here near the 00:04:30.87000:04:30.880 thermostat where we hang the thermostat 00:04:32.58000:04:32.590 on the wall a little light switch that I 00:04:34.56000:04:34.570 can turn it on and off that will turn 00:04:36.60000:04:36.610 the mini-split system completely off 00:04:38.97000:04:38.980 when we've turned it off and we're 00:04:40.77000:04:40.780 running on the boiler or during the 00:04:42.33000:04:42.340 summertime when we've got all the 00:04:43.59000:04:43.600 windows open when we're not running the 00:04:45.12000:04:45.130 system I want to be able to shut it off 00:04:46.95000:04:46.960 in the meantime I'm going to throw it 00:04:48.33000:04:48.340 off at the circuit breaker because I was 00:04:50.28000:04:50.290 really surprised at how much of a ghost 00:04:52.02000:04:52.030 load it has so if you haven't watched 00:04:54.84000:04:54.850 the original mini-split video I'll put a 00:04:57.12000:04:57.130 link to it so that you can go and watch 00:04:59.13000:04:59.140 that video right now if you want to go 00:05:02.40000:05:02.410 to my website and download a cost per 00:05:05.16000:05:05.170 million BTUs sheet I think I've got one 00:05:08.07000:05:08.080 right here I posted one on that knows 00:05:10.44000:05:10.450 that that you can download a two page 00:05:12.15000:05:12.160 PDF of it keep in mind that if your 00:05:15.39000:05:15.400 system is rated in a different factor 00:05:19.29000:05:19.300 than Co P which is a coefficient of 00:05:22.65000:05:22.660 performance then you have to do a little 00:05:24.21000:05:24.220 bit of math to to convert it because the 00:05:27.21000:05:27.220 heating side of these things is rated in 00:05:29.55000:05:29.560 heating season performance factor you 00:05:31.95000:05:31.960 can see that mine is 21.5 it's kind of 00:05:34.71000:05:34.720 neat that this scale goes all the way up 00:05:36.75000:05:36.760 to 21 so mine is so efficient that it's 00:05:39.06000:05:39.070 completely off the chart for both of 00:05:41.04000:05:41.050 these so that's kind of neat if you have 00:05:43.50000:05:43.510 any questions about about that about the 00:05:46.17000:05:46.180 other energy use about cost per million 00:05:49.53000:05:49.540 BTUs if you can't figure out to 00:05:51.00000:05:51.010 calculate it go ahead and make a comment 00:05:52.80000:05:52.810 down in the comment section if you 00:05:54.75000:05:54.760 decide you want to get an energy 00:05:55.77000:05:55.780 monitoring device to see what your 00:05:58.41000:05:58.420 electric use is of the whole house or an 00:06:00.36000:06:00.370 individual circuit please use the Amazon 00:06:02.76000:06:02.770 link down in the in the description and 00:06:05.01000:06:05.020 I look forward to hearing from you 00:06:06.81000:06:06.820 thanks for watching
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