Dear stakeholders, I just wanted to update everyone on where we are with the heat tape and controllers.
In week #43 10/17 -10/21st Dave the electrician came by and finished up the punchlist.
10/25: The end of storm number one for the season was a perfect opportunity to put the heat tape system to the test, controllers as well as new installed sections on the north side of the 200 and 300 building. With a light load of snow and just a few hours of run time it’s pretty easy to see what worked and what didn’t. Dave the electrician came by 10/26 and fixed what he could.
100 Building (Drone photos from Tuesday October 25th)
10/26: 100 Building. One zone is out because of the controller acting up. The electrician reset the breaker and the module is now allowing manual override and turns on. At the time of writing this I have not paired the controller but do not see why it wouldn’t, I will do so as soon as I find time to incorporate this in the menu for the Control over Wi-Fi.
As of now all zones seem to work, with the only footnote that one of the three controllers seems to be a little finicky.
200 Building (Drone photos from Tuesday October 25th)
10/26 Dave the electrician tested all three controllers and they seem to be working fine. He diagnosed and remedied the half which is not working on the Northside by tightening a few loose wire nuts in the junction box. The 200 building gets a clean bill of health.
Note; on the 200 building the heat tape on the roof as well as in the downspouts is separated in zones for 262 and 242 and a separate zone for 202 and 232.
10/26 Dave the electrician checked all three modules and even though they are turning on and off one of the three controllers is not letting power through after it has been turned on. For now this zone has been bypassed and we are using the breaker switch to turn that zone on and off.
Note; after bypassing the control module and the heat tape was turned on an inrush current of approximately 24 A was measured. After that it dropped down to about 7 A. The other zones we’re already running at between six and 8 A. Zones on the 100 building were running at a steady 10 A. nowhere else was in a rush current measured, however comparing it with the load on the other modules the steady current seem to fit in the average of other zones and would only think that they would have a similar in rush spike.
In contrast with the 200 building, on the 300 building zones were separated in northside down spouts and gutters for the entire building and another zone in northside heat tape for the entire building.
