Today i mostly finished what I started Wednesday, pulling the ethernet, phone and TV coax through the underground conduit into the shop. I turned it into the front wall so it is protected and ran it to a PVC wall box where I will terminate them. The blue is CAT 6 cable, beige is phone and the black of course is the coax. The ethernet and phone are doubled for security.

I tried all day to get my IT guy, but kept hearing he was out of town.

 

Good plan, Stan. I'm doing without wiring by placing my wifi router where I can get wifi in the shop as well as the house. But, it isn't as good as having wiring.

 

Wifi doesn't work too well penetrating a big grounded metal shell. I will have wifi inside it though.

 

Very true, but if the wooden end faces the house you could get it in that way. However, CAT5 is much better.

 

Since the wooden wall faces the street, that won't help. CAT 6 is better yet.

 

Well, I got an early enough start to get the "utilities" finished before the Dover Sprint Cup race. I first thought I was going to have to wait till Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday since I thought I was short a phone jack insert. While looking for two short LAN cables I found a piece of history, my dual phone jacks from the days of AOL dial-up. The holder they were in took the snap-in jack modules. Problem solved!

After the race ended and dinner, I took the old HP laptop (now running win 7 ultimate 32 bit) because it has an easier wifi disable in a push button to check that I have no problems.

 

Well done! Who needs an IT tech when you are around!

 

Got one of the phone lines connected, Verizon's new style connectors can only accommodate a max of 4 lines, since there are 3 into the house, I only had one open spot.

I took the old phone from the house out and one of dad's old surge suppressors as a precaution.

 

Tuesday I made a run to Newport News to get my other two generators and pick up an air conditioning unit from the back end of a big Winnebago. I was going to use one of the rooftop units on the top of the office area with the outside portion ducted through the wall. I had found a decent one on an old LeSharo which was a Renault powered FWD mini Winnie and a real POS. When I went to get it, after telling me, "No problem, it isn't going anywhere." Donnie said "Oh crap, you did tell me you wanted that didn't you?". He told me to go look at this Winnebago Elante which had a rear mounted unit.

Well after a few choice words, a lot of fighting with it (it is supposed to slide out for service) and getting drowned in a sudden gully washer we loaded it into Darth. I did some research on it and found it has two separate 20 amp 115 volt feeds and a 12 VDC to the thermostat. It has two compressors, one on circuit #1 along with both fans and one on circuit #2 all by itself. I ran two power sources and my nice big regulated DC power supply and tried it. I thought it had a bad thermostat as it didn't want to run anything except the indoor fan, but after a long enough wait, it kicked on #1, and after about a minute #2 compressor. Blows a ton of cold air, even pulling some of the hot discharge in!

 

Cool! Literally. Is it big enough to do the shop or just the office?

 

I doubt it would do the whole shop, not at uninsulated 40X40 18' high in the center. With a fan going on me it isn't too bad even with our 90-100% RH here.

 

Glad you can handle it. We aren't even having some of our normal temps, but it still "feels like" 108 here.

 

Ran that AC unit a bit more today. It was 93° but the humidity wasn't bad. I placed a couple of plywood pieces so the inside return wouldn't pick up the hot air coming out the bottom and the other so the exhaust air wasn't being pulled back into the condensor. Around 4, I held the thermostat in the discharge air, and remember, I am pulling at least 93° degree air into the unit, so 69.3° discharge isn't too bad. For reference, there was definitely some moisture, look at the puddle.

 

Looks like it is time to install it. Quit posting, and do something!

 

I have to finish the walls before it will do any good. Besides I let it run while I was working on two more of my antique generators.