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A project log for Smart Apartment HVAC

My apartment has, lets just say lackluster heating and no air conditioning or ventilation. So, I'm building a simple "smart" system for it.

john-duffyJohn Duffy 07/13/2022 at 05:030 Comments

Got the big window fan in for the br, $40, 10" 120V fan with louvers.  Unfortunately breaking my "no mains" rule already bc it didnt come pre-wired, AND needs a dimmer to run even remotely quietly.  Think this is more of an industrial thing but I want the ability to move that much air when I don't care about noise too and couldn't find a good alternative.  I'll have to be careful with the boxes and shit to make it pretty failsafe.  

Got this  https://www.tindie.com/products/bugrovs2012/ac-dimmer-module-controller-board-arduino-v20/ dimmer off tindie to do the actual control, I'll probably have an arduino to do the low-level timing and ESP for control.  

Also finally got around to getting a proper ring/spade terminal crimper, to ground the thing.

Also got a free desktop and got it to boot bodhi (and connect to wifi through a dongle.  That was a whole thing in and of itself...).  May run the main logic on that but mosty using that for the bar lighting.  

May post that as a project at some point too, we'll see.  

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