Heating with propane is a no-no for many types of production environments, just due to the relatively large amounts of humidity it puts into the air. It's good for feeling warm, but bad for everything else. Like metal machinery made of non-stainless steels or iron....
Radiant electric is prolly how to do it best, from what I've heard... You can just put a bunch of little heaters, put one each right where you will need them and only turn on the one you need.
Oh, yup. I want to come up soon. I have two weeks of full-time work coming, and then a break.
I'll be in touch.
Whatever is in the air in the shop goes through the heater and is "burned", but with plenty of combustion air you should get only CO2 and water from the heater. A cold room being brought up to temp will condense the water vapor so yes the walls and everything else will get damp until the all is up to normal temp. I use ventless nat gas heaters and they work great for me. The water vapor problem isn't enough to keep static electricity down on dry days. and natural gas is sooooooo cheap,
Having only installed my own recently, I wish they would tell you that in the manual! I fired up the
120K BTU mother and it filled the house with light smoke. I suspected it was something in there as part of the manufacturing process and that it was normal, but not knowing for sure, you start to wonder if you dropped a tool with a plastic handle or something in there.
Right, mostly methane. You can google up MSDS's for composition. Here's one:
Sulfur compounds while down in the ppm level are not insignificant as a few ppm of the sulfur dioxide combustion product could be irritating.
Someplace I have an analysis for natural gas in the PA area. Will have to find it.
Not all do, anyway...I think it probably was left from installation or perhaps are using imported units that are shipped via surface container so do need some corrosion protection.
Just put in two new Carrier units within last 5 months--neither had any such symptom.
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Man, that's frieky. I can easily imagine you wondering what is wrong. I'd also wonder if the thing was about to catch fire, and burn the house down.
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Having only installed my own recently, I wish they would tell you that in the manual! I fired up the
120K BTU mother and it filled the house with light smoke. I suspected it was something in there as part of the manufacturing process and that it was normal, but not knowing for sure, you start to wonder if you dropped a tool with a plastic handle or something in there.
Those things work amazingly well even in a place with open loading dock doors and 5F wind blowing through. You're still comfortable in a T-shirt.
I use electric heat in my shop, just a recycled air handler with electric heat, only running half of the 20KW bank. I'll eventually reconnect the A/C as well. It may not be the most efficient, but it is the most cost effective since the equipment cost me nothing. Also here in N. TX the heating and A/C seasons are fairly short for shop use, since it doesn't have to match the same temps as the house, just be comfortable. In the winter 60F is fine when I'm working out there and set down to 50F when I'm not. In the summer 90F is fine when it's 106F out.
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Based on the few possums I've had to shoot because they've been in areas where they weren't welcome, they've got heads of solid bone and brains the size of peanuts. Plugged one with a .357 in the head at close range and he was still kicking a half-hour later. Last monster one took 4 .38s to the head and still took a long time to give up. So yep, it fits.
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