FOR THE NEW GUYS, FIRST ONE TO GUESS WHAT IT IS, WINS

Originally Posted By: dbush
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Originally Posted By: jkormos
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icon_question.gif power vent for a icon_question.gif couldn’t be for a soil stack, so … uncle


Originally Posted By: jwilliams4
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I know! I know! Ask me -askme!!!


It's an albino anaconda that swallowed a smudge-pot.

![icon_biggrin.gif](upload://iKNGSw3qcRIEmXySa8gItY6Gczg.gif) ![icon_biggrin.gif](upload://iKNGSw3qcRIEmXySa8gItY6Gczg.gif) What'd I win???


Originally Posted By: rcooke
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Sorry I did not see it was for the new Guys.


Roy sr


Originally Posted By: bkelly1
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I have never seen one, but is it a radon fan?


Originally Posted By: dbush
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No correct answers YET, although I will give a hint, Joseph is on the right track.


Although the anaconda might be close too. ![icon_biggrin.gif](upload://iKNGSw3qcRIEmXySa8gItY6Gczg.gif) ![icon_biggrin.gif](upload://iKNGSw3qcRIEmXySa8gItY6Gczg.gif)


Originally Posted By: rcooke
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It’s an inline fan Possible for removing Radon Gas from the under floor slab . Have never seen one we In Canada are not concerned with Radon. What is my prize.


It should have better support also

Too small for a dryer .
Roy sr


Originally Posted By: Jay Moge
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your all wrong. it’s acutaly a flacuating combulating regulator. or in other words a fart cutter. icon_cool.gif


Originally Posted By: pdacey
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a booster fan on a dryer vent (but I’ve never seen a dryer vent run in PVC) hmmmmmmmmmm


Originally Posted By: gbeaumont
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Hey Dave,


I hope you wrote it up for lack of proper support ![icon_wink.gif](upload://ssT9V5t45yjlgXqiFRXL04eXtqw.gif)

Regards

Gerry


Originally Posted By: rcooke
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gbeaumont wrote:
Hey Dave,

I hope you wrote it up for lack of proper support ![icon_wink.gif](upload://ssT9V5t45yjlgXqiFRXL04eXtqw.gif)

Regards

Gerry



Gerry see above.

It should have better support also


Roy sr


Originally Posted By: dbush
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I will wait until tomorrow, but no-one has it exact yet. I will say that it is not Radon if that helps.


Originally Posted By: jhagarty
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Booster fan for the bathroom exhaust ventilators.


Originally Posted By: dbush
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Joe, you’re not a new guy, but nope. It is a booster fan; however, it is a booster fan for a high efficiency furnace. The run is approximately 50 feet from the basement through the roof penetration; so there is the fan in the unit which is in the basement and then this booster in the attic where it comes through the ceiling which pushes the exhaust through the roof. Not a typical installation here, they normally just put the intake & exhaust together.


Originally Posted By: mthomas2
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What’s done on the intake side?


Originally Posted By: rcooke
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mthomas2 wrote:
What's done on the intake side?


New to me is this approved.
I expect it gets it supply air from the home .
Would be interested in seeing the manufactures recomendation on this .
I still feel that there should have been some support on the fan .
Do you know voltage is the fan.

Roy sr
A Happy NACHIO member


Originally Posted By: dbush
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Supply air comes from the outside of the basement on a gooseneck shaped pvc pipe, I think 2 1/2", but I don’t remember. That is a standard set up for it, but normally there is a discharge pipe right beside it facing with a gooseneck going up and the intake goes down. This is the first one I have seen where they did not put the exhaust in the same general area as the intake.


Fan is 110 volt wired to a junction about 10 feet away.


Originally Posted By: jrupert
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This additional vent is not approved by any manufacture that I am aware of. A few of the issues created with the additional fan are:


1)The fan will pull more combustion air through the heat exchanger then designed, this can cause improper combustion, poor operating efficiency.
2)Inducer vented furnaces are equipped with a air draft switch that shuts down the furnace if the venting fails, this additional fan can override this safety device creating a dangerous non AGA approved installation.


John Rupert
Accurate Property Inspections
Solitaire Heating & Cooling
CSG Training (HVAC Training & Consulting)


Originally Posted By: mcyr
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John; Sounds good to me, I thought it was an inline booster fan for a dryer. I guess everyone except me noticed improper support. ha. ha.

I was about to comment the pipe is to small and why were PVC reducing couplings were not used instead of a reducing fernco coupling.

Good job. Only if you are correct. ha. ha.

Marcel