[Greenbuilding] Heat loss monitoring (was something else about temperature)

[Reuben Deumling]

Thanks everyone for the good ideas. I have found usb thermometers for as
little as $39(!) and am still enjoying the googling. As for a heat loss
calculator, my approach is less an attempt to rank the culprits than to get
a detailed picture of the overall rate of heat loss under a variety of
temperature regimes BEFORE I insulate my house with larsen trusses and a
truckload of cellulose, as well as AFTER. You could say the search for a
recording thermometer is an elaborate way to obtain concrete evidence about
just how much my insulating effort is going to improve things. I am also
keeping close track of the amount of firewood I use up before and after the
insulation.

Reuben Deumling

On 10/25/06, Rob Tom <ArchiLogic at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
> Reuben was asking about some sort of gizmo that would tell him the rate of
> heat loss from his house but the message got lost somewhere between my
> Mailwasher program preview and my browser's mail program.
>
> I can't help but wonder if it might be simpler and more informative to do
> a heat loss calculation for the structure using any of the existing
> software apps that are out there.
>
> The old HOT 2000 program comes to mind but there are no doubt newer
> niftier programs that have appeared since.
>
> Simply logging temperature changes wouldn't give any indication as to
> which building component is responsible for the heat loss and where money
> could best be spent to make improvements.
>
>
>
>
> ===* ===
> Rob Tom
> Kanata, Ontario, Canada
> <archilogic at chaffyahoo dot ca>
> winnow the chaff from my edress in your reply
>
>
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