I have two 3-ton HVAC units on my house. Both have a micro air easy start, but I want to employ logic that if one of the HVAC units is running, the other one will wait to run until the first one cycles off and vice versus.
I have simple time-based programmable thermostats now and am sort of accomplishing this by staggering their time and temperature settings. The rest of my big electrical loads just run when there is PV power and the family is pretty educated on running just one big load at a time. So I don’t see the need to buy an expensive load controller for the whole house.
Ultimately my goal is to maximize my battery bank to make it last as long thru the night as possible, during hot summer nights.
Installing affordable programmable thermostats I am thinking would be cheaper and faster than installing a whole house load controller as it would help to control the two biggest loads in the house. Thoughts?
I have simple time-based programmable thermostats now and am sort of accomplishing this by staggering their time and temperature settings. The rest of my big electrical loads just run when there is PV power and the family is pretty educated on running just one big load at a time. So I don’t see the need to buy an expensive load controller for the whole house.
Ultimately my goal is to maximize my battery bank to make it last as long thru the night as possible, during hot summer nights.
Installing affordable programmable thermostats I am thinking would be cheaper and faster than installing a whole house load controller as it would help to control the two biggest loads in the house. Thoughts?