Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hound.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!hound!5131eds From: 5131eds@hound.UUCP (E.SHIPLEY) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Furnace anticipator setting Message-ID: <683@hound.UUCP> Date: Fri, 19-Oct-84 09:59:45 EDT Article-I.D.: hound.683 Posted: Fri Oct 19 09:59:45 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 21-Oct-84 13:26:16 EDT References: <152@ssc-vax.UUCP>Reply-To: 5131eds@hound.UUCP (55112-E.SHIPLEY) Distribution: net.consumers Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 10 Summary: Rapid cycling is better The efficiency of a furnace is not determined by heat transfer from the furnace to the house air, but by the fraction of the generated heat that goes (or doesn't go) up the chimney. To minimze the heat going up the chimney, one should keep the plenum as cool as possible, to maximize transfer to the plenum. (I hope plenum is the right term.) I believe rapid cycling would do the best job in this regard. Ed Shipley houxm!hound!5131eds